To Fern: 641 Things To Write About

A houseplant is dying. Tell it why it needs to live.

Dear Fern,

Please do not give up.
I need you to live so that you can filter the putrid air in my home into fine, clean oxygen for my breathing pleasure.

I know what you're thinking - where's the justice?
I can tell in the way you shiver your fronds when I steal your babies for the same calling.

Is it unfair for me to say...this is what you were made for?
So please, open your little fronds to the sunlight, have some water and
just breathe...

Nikki

642 Things To Write About

So, I bought this funny book a year ago. It's full of writing prompts (because I'm a huge nerd and would buy something like that). I've only done...like...7 since I bought it...and now I've made it a goal to do every.single.one.

And here is the first:
What can happen in a second?

In the second you've just spent reading this,
someone has wrecked their car,                    
someone has just taken their last breath,
or had their last thought,
and
someone has just given birth,
and someone has just taken their first breath -
life and death are happening simultaneously
right this
second.

In the second it took me to write the this letter,
someone has sent a text (which unfortunately they can't un-send),
and someone else has told a joke, which has just taken
a terrible turn,
and has ended up as and unintended insult.
Ouch.

In a single second you can:
choke,
push the button on a microwave,
smack your bubblegum,
trip,
make eye contact with someone,
burn yourself,
find a dollar,
burp,
say yes
or no...
and in one second, with just the click of a mouse -
or the enter key -
you can spend all the money in your bank account.

So I'm fairly convinced that not just anything can happen in a second,
but everything.