Challenge
Challenge of the Month VIII
Running. You are (or your character is) running from something. Or running to something. Or maybe you just left the faucet running. The theme this month is running. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Towards the North Star
Running.
Running from our deaths;
To our lives.
Running to leave the past behind;
For a future untwined.
Running from man’s unending hate
To a humanity that does not abdicate.
Running to a noose of rope
Or a new hope-
Hoping to live.