Sound and Fury

More Tales from Creative Writing...

What follows is another assignment from Creative Writing class... a free writing exercise in which you simply write non-stop, no thinking or editing, for a short length of time.
Observe...


I couldn't breath -- it hurt too much. Have you ever been in so much pain you can't even breath anymore? It's not fun. You lie there, staring up, wondering if it's ever going to go away, that huge pain on your chest, that giant sadness stalking you. You lie there, staring up, in so much pain you can't think, can't react, can't even breath. But you can feel. Oh god, you sure can feel.

You feel the unending weight of just going on. You feel the sadness wrapping around you, almost tenderly, moving itself around you so you cannot escape it's grip. And you hurt. Oh, you hurt so much -- you feel that pain, that awful, endless pain, so much you can't even keep breathing, can't even keep going...

And then, just when your head starts to get fuzzy and the little spots start showing up over your eyes -- then, when you think the pain and the sadness and the continual, awful breathing is finally done... then your body pulls a fast one on you and takes the goddamn breath whether you want it to or not and it starts all over again...



Marina Reid