Challenge
Challenge of the Week CXII
Emotional Reaction. Perhaps it's an outburst of anger. Perhaps a fearful retreat. Perhaps still a poem, written of love. Choose an emotion (or two), and write about the reaction it causes. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Fear
Fear starts in the pit of my stomach, twisting and writhing, refusing to leave me alone. Tiny tendrils reach up, spreading like a wildfire that engulfs me and squeezes tightly, making it hard to breathe, limiting my air. Then I take a deep breath. The panic stops and I go back to my business as if it didn’t happen.
But I know that it did.