Fifty Writing Prompts

1. honeydew eyes and your sweet, childish smile.
2. do broken people ever get tired of being broken?
3. let's run away and never look back, at every risk of being found.
4. splashing lake water with numbing feet.
5. mother birds will abandon their kin if they smell a human has touched them.
6. i wish that some people didn't have to die young.
7. where am i today, because i am not here.
8. have you ever literally stopped to smell the roses?
9. deer are surprisingly friendly toward strangers.
10. forever is simply not long enough.
11. i wish i could take a picture every time i blinked.
12. you were right.
13. hot soup in cold weather.
14. a cigarette, a pocketwatch, a briefcase.
15. summer haze.
16. there is never enough time.
17. unexpected visitor.
18. an alphabetized bookshelf with one book out of place.
19. wiggling fingers.
20. southeast asia.
21. why should someone choose between head and heart?
22. a loose-dangling chain from her fingers.
23. i have never been able to properly tie a necktie.
24. a completely lifeless garden.
25. sleeping the afternoon away.
26. i never told you this, but.
27. a red-bricked fireplace.
28. my mother never let me take ballet as a child.
29. i didn't read the last page of the novel.
30. run over by a bus.
31. who are you?
32. i don't understand how you could have.
33. mint ice cream.
34. i wish you came with a warning label.
35. how cinderella's prince felt being abandoned at midnight.
36. sleeping on top of the blankets.
37. why are you copying me?
38. magazine paper is shinier than regular paper.
39. come and find me.
40. a cardboard box, cookies, leather shoes.
41. moles, not freckles.
42. what was in the film canister.
43. 4:28.
44. harmony.
45. why didn't you come after me?
46. ordering coffee at starbucks and learning to speak the language.
47. wake up and do it all again.
48. thursday.
49. you always bought the damn fruit loops.
50. some things don't break; they bend.