Happy STS (or answer whenever if ya want), Grey! For any WIP, if it was a house, how would you describe it. And what rooms would it have? Sending good ☆☆ vibes ☆☆ and good luck to you. - ✨️ (@enchanted-lightning-aes)
Thank you so much for the STS ask! Still sorry this one also took me forever to get to but as you know I appreciate it muchly! Thank you for the good vibes and the good luck, and I also hope you get the Best vibes for August!!
I am going to use this ask to talk about a short story I've been working on lately! I have this character named Cruz who's been with me since middle school. Except, I just never know what to do with him. I always thought he was meant to be a monster hunter or something along that pipeline, turns out he just needed a contemporary short story, a complicated relationship with religion and his family and Boom, a story was born! It's called Waiting for an End!
If I had to describe it as a house, it would be a single floor house. Opening the door and coming inside, you'd instantly be greeted by silence. There are multiple rooms: a big master bedroom that's neat and tidy, but you notice the cracks on the ceiling. There's a cross above the bed, it's been polished recently. Examining the nightstand, you see a well-loved bible that's falling apart with how many bookmarks and highlighted texts it has. Beside it is another room, but when you try the doorknob, it doesn't budge. Walking down the hallway, you'll see picture frames lining the walls and marks left behind of frames that were once there but aren't anymore. Coming to the end of the hall, if you look to your left, you'll see a kitchen and to your right you'll see another bedroom and a bathroom next to it. The bedroom is simple, sparsely furnished, and you get the impression that the owner is afraid of taking up space. It doesn't look like much, but if you poke around, you'll find peeling wallpaper beside the bed as if it's being picked away by anxious fingers. Behind the bookshelf, there's a hole in the wall the size of a fist. Cracks on the walls have been painted over. The single window in this room has bars outside of it, and the glass has a long crack going down the length of it.
A peaceful house all in all, that doesn't look like much, but the struggles hidden inside of it are easy to spot if you keep looking. The more time you spend here, the more the silence becomes suffocating.
