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5 Minute Stretch

5 Minute Stretch

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“the dry season came”

She had a way of loving people instantly, fully, with her whole being. It took nothing really, a look, a smile, a word said with just a hint of irony or with a bit of a lilt. Anything could do it. She’d be sunk, One minute friends, the next minute smitten. In a snap. This ability to fall quickly in love ought to have been a curse perhaps or a blessing, some sort of super hero power: “Go-Go Gadget Love!” But it was simply her; she loved fully and often and with no rules. A great way to live really, until the dry season came. And it always came. Not tied to moons or winds or the migration of the birds; the emotional dry season always came. One minute she was in love and hte next…she still loved, of course she still loved, but the all-in quality, the off-a-cliff quality, the depth and intensity were gone. Suddenly, she could hardly

5 Minute Stretch Exercises are a creation of Laura Munson and were learned at Haven Writing Retreats. Write for five minutes, no corrections or stopping.
This prompt was taken from Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir.

5 Minute Stretch

5 Minute Stretch

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“chasing the light”

It’s not so much that she was chasing the light as she refused to be swallowed by darkness any longer. There comes a point, perhaps several, when one must choose, after all. As though it’s only as simple as a choice. As though one simply decides, “Today I shall chase the light, tomorrow, who knows; but today, why today I have all figured out.” Or perhaps that’s exactly how it’s done. Precisely how. If it’s always a matter of today, today, today, the only moment promised, then perhaps it is exactly like this. What a lovely idea: to chase the light. Almost like a sunflower tracking the sky of one’s depression. Does this make life the sunflower chasing the light, or oneself the sunflower? It’s all a bit too poetic for the likes of me, to be sure. Still. One wouldn’t want to chase the darkness, as though that’s the opposite of chasing the light, when perhaps the opposite is simply not chasing anything at all.

5 Minute Stretch Exercises are a creation of Laura Munson and were learned at Haven Writing Retreats. This prompt was taken from A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson.