Crimson’s Creative Challenge #45

/ Tien Skye

A drop of ink dirties a glass of water, but not an ocean. And for some people, their human hearts are oceans which are not tainted easily. But even if a human heart can sail an oil tanker like an ocean does, there is still a limit.

He learns the hard way that the limit is during a low tide.

That is when what is thrown out during the day comes back to haunt him at night, when the ocean washes the trash back. What is washed back is even worse – rotten and smelly after being out in the sea for too long.

If there is such a thing call karma, then it must be the rubbish being washed back.

(121 words)

If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

Prompt: Crimson’s Creative Challenge #45

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5 thoughts on “Crimson’s Creative Challenge #45”

  1. That’s brilliant. I’ve used sea imagery for many things, but I’d not caught to this one yet. Yes, and we can take it further. If we liken the sea to the subconscious, then all the garbage we consign there, thinking it out of sight, out of mind, comes welling back in all its rottenness when we’re in a depression, at our low tide.
    Wonderful imagery, Tien. Thanks for pointing me there.

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