Weekly Writing Challenge: 1,000 Words, Take Two

by michelle w. on January 28, 2013

For some of us, blogging is personal. Others are trying to educate or entertain; many more are hybrids. Yet we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges help you to push your writing boundaries, show off your blogging chops, and, hopefully, spark more post ideas.

To participate, tag your post with DPchallenge or leave a link to it in the comments. (It would also be great if you could link to this post to encourage people to take part – the more the merrier!) Your post should be specifically written in response to this challenge. We’ll keep an eye on the tag and highlight some of our favorite posts on Freshly Pressed on Friday.

You had a lot of fun with the A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words challenge, and we had a lot of fun reading your entries – so let’s go for Round Two. Your challenge this week is to write a post based on this picture:

I had waited so long for his return from abroad. The mere thought of holding him close to me once again. Feeling his breath against my neck. His arms held tight around me. I would not care who was passing by on the street that day. I would not care about the graffiti on the walls that surround us. Just to have him near me once again.

The lingering smells of the local shoppes as I hold him there not wanting to let go. Blocking the traffic of walkers on the steps as we embrace.

To have him back safely in my arms and out of harms way. A priceless thought that has gotten me through each day of his absence. It has been a long eighteen months to wait. Each night longing for the moment on the street when he would step from that trolley and be mine again.

Safely returned to me once more

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