Submitted to: Contest #304

Writing on a Prayer

Written in response to: "Center your story around a character facing a tight deadline."

Drama Fiction Mystery

"To write or not to write?" "Is that the actual question to have an answer?" "Or is that the answer to a question yet to be asked?"

"Can writing be a way of escape or is it a way to go completely insane?" "Shall the one writing be the author or will someone else be the one who lays claim to fame for the writing of another?"

"How does one know the idea(s) behind the writing of a drunk if they are the ones who are sober?" "How can we know for sure the writing that was written many years or decades or centuries ago is the actual writing of such named person or persons, even though they are long since dead and passed?"

"Will the proof of such a writing be the actual of such person, who may or may not have written anything or nothing that makes its own writing?"

"We live to die or die to live?" "We move one step forward, without a way to prove that we will move one more step to start a journey that may take only one step, or even one million steps to equal the one step that starts the journey which may end after the first step has been made?"

"How can one baby step does not become a giant leap?" "How can our unity to become one still be divided in the middle or more to the left or right?" "How can the center be crooked and the edges yet straight to allow us to walk a line that leads to nowhere?"

"Will we see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or will the pot of gold be at the beginning and let us not have to go over the rainbow to find out?"

"Can we see what is good in all mankind, if we are blind to all that we cannot see?" "Does the end of the road mean literally the end of all we are and know or the beginning of life as we know it?"

"The fine line between good and evil, or right and wrong or even life and death, is it so very thin, that we cannot see it because it never existed?"

"How can we know which way to turn or whether to keep straight never knowing what might have been even though we know the way that will lead us home?"

"Can the why be subtle or simply understood and these things make no sense because our mind are not in a state to understand?"

"When we pray and expect and answer, do we stop praying for that which we ask for when we never receive an answer?"

"Do we see the forest for the trees or for the things that happen in the forest?" "Do we seek out a way to go on or a way to turn back that may lead us out of the forest?"

Do we give in to temptation or do we wish with all our might that the temptation will become less strong, and no longer be a problem?" "How do we fight the inner demons that we know or believe we know exist at least to us, to only feel less than we did coming in head on?"

"What makes us wish for more though not wanting more and getting less?"

"Does our inner child behave badly or misbehave, when the idea of us getting our way always leads us to want worse to happen?"

"Do we find it easier to accept an abusive marriage and not find our soulmate when the other is harder to find and life is less lonely when you have someone who we will believe will change?"

"The latter is further away; the present is an extension of the past and the future is only a myth." "To believe in the reality of a mirage will only lead you closer to the actual place that never existed."

"How can one be blinded by the sham of life without it being the proven point of no return?" "How can one become someone else and never let go of that which once was who they still are?"

"How can one come out of the closet when they never went into said closet to begin with?" "How can one know who they are if identifying with who they are brings on more torture and pain in the end?" "What if the pain is too much to bear as the truth is the death of them?"

"Can love permanently damage your heart?" "Can eating too much destroy your insides and stomach?" "Can you be swallowed whole by a snake that is half your size and weight?"

"Are you able to overcome what may kill you, by leaping it in a single bound?" "Are the legends of storybook fairytales the only way to teach children how to cope with life and prepare them for adulthood?"

"Are we covering up the reality of all that does not exist by make believing it is all false?" "Do we live the lie or hope for the dream that was all wrong and never actually real?"

"Who can expect you to live the dream even their dream through you when you are not sure where to begin or where to start?"

"Will you ever be able to compete in the world of the rich get richer and the poor get poorer?" "Can you complete your bucket list with a sense of pride or humiliation?" "Do you stand tall or slouch at the idea of never being the best you can be?"

Does life give you mixed fruit and still expect you to have a lemonade stand without you having to raise prices?" Can the good die young while the bad die even younger or will the scales be tipped in the bad people's favor?"

"Do people who commit heinous crimes handed out less sentences for their crimes if they are allowed to return to society only repeat their crimes and commit more?"

"When does the madness end and take on new face or take on a new name and identity, only become psychotic and rabid in its search for more evil to disgest?"

Posted May 27, 2025
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Jo Freitag
13:20 Jun 11, 2025

What great questions - each one with so many potential stories to be told around it!

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Kristi Gott
22:55 May 27, 2025

These questions swirling through the main character-narrator's mind are presented in a creative, original, interesting structure. It feels very natural and organic in the flow of the narrator's mind. These are good questions and very thought provoking. I applaud the creativity of using an unconventional, innovative structure style.

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