She lit a cigarette, sucked it in and as she exhaled the sickening scent gradually sapped her anger and left with the crisp autumn air. As her emotion escaped her she was stuck with the one person she hated most. Herself. Because facing herself was hard. It was better to have an inner demon of anger or despair to blame for such spontaneous outbursts, but when her peaking emotions were drained, there was nothing but a hollow woman leaning on a balcony watching the clouds silhouette the moon. Tonight she felt destined to be alone, there was no company the night could give her. Even the moon hid from her.
The mood of the past five minutes was gone. There was nothing. Her mind had stopped and her emotions extracted. But she knew this would not last. Inside the room lay the rest of her life that she had to face. She wanted to stay outside. It felt timeless. But as she tried to avoid her life, the re-commencement was inevitable.
For one night she wanted nothing to do with anything. No ties. No duties. No jobs. Nothing that could lead to anything else. This is why she smoked cigarettes. The addictive drug that claimed lives, and willingly, it claimed her own. She wanted to be content in one moment. Constantly moving forward tired her and she merely wanted to stay in a single moment of her life and take it all in. Life was too fast for someone who only wanted to breathe.
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2 comments:
Correct me if im wrong but I believe this is your first attempt at fiction?
(well on aywf anyways)
and you know what? You wrote really good.
Your fiction was brief and to the point rather than explaining every minute-detail which makes for better reading.
You analogy of cigarettes and life was not common but not unheard of.
I try to stay away from life analogies. For instances bus stops, cars, houses, leafs falling, earth, people, school can be used for analogies on life and other topics.
Life is the single most easiest topic to select, but writing/blogging about it is probably the single most hardest topic.
Also your style of linking 2nd and 3rd person writing made it have more depth.
Keep it up!
thanks bez, yeah my first attempt!
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