At first I was going to let Writers in Motion know I couldn't do it because all the image invoked in me was dread. Looking at the prompt all I felt was death, being terribly alone and depression. I thought about writing a story about someone going to the little house to die but that seemed too heavy. It depressed me. Then I thought about how the end of a serious relationship or marriage was a kind of death. I had just watched Umbrella Academy 2 a day or two before and Vanya was living with a family and absconded with the wife and child and I was thinking about the husband character and how that must feel for him. Even though he turned out to be a bit of a jerk he had only tried to do the best he could for his family before his wife realized she was in love with Vanya. And I thought about a guy at my old place of employment (who also was a bit of a jerk) whose wife left him for another woman. He used to announce it to all and sundry at work and add, "Can you believe that?" He would shake his head in disbelief as he said it followed by a fleeting expression of hurt.
The longer I looked at the prompt the more I begin to rise from the feeling of dread and notice how the little structure at the top of the mountain glowed and it kind of reminded me of a lighthouse and I thought maybe the little building could be a place where someone/something could be dying but could also heal or find enough strength to carry on even if irrevocably broken. I also thought about how betrayal would feel and how people have a tendency to feel that love equates to ownership and possession. And what do you do when what you love, what you've built your life around, isn't yours anymore? I wanted to capture the 5 stages of grief and I'm not sure I did that, and am not sure I can in 1000 words. But to me the prompt felt like a story of grief and maybe a place to learn to accept what you cannot change.
Topic: Gloom, Despair and Agony O'er Me (Read 2469 times)