Hey everyone, hope you are having a lovely Thursday so far. It’s nearly Friday! Have had a busy morning, not writing, but spoiling my Daddy as it’s his birthday. We surprised him with cake and pressies after breakfast earlier today. Amelia and Nate adore their Dada, (pet name for their Granddad) he is so important to them. Amelia wanted to write her own card for him and it was so sweet, she was saying as she scribbled it with her little tongue sticking out in concentration, ‘Dear Dada, you will always be my friend, I love you, Amelia.’ Awww….
Yesterday I spoke a little bit about seanachai in Ireland. Well my Daddy is one of the true original Seanachai’s. Every bit of my imagination comes from him. He tells stories like noone else I know, I could listen to him spin a yarn for hours! So Happy Birthday Daddy. Thanks for all the stories, I love you.
Anyhow back to the task at hand! More flash fiction. I had no idea when I decided to run this little challenge how many entries we would receive. The prize is so cool though isn’t it? The chance to have a piece of your work published in a magazine is not to shabby for any aspiring writer.
And Emma Murphy is throwing her name in the hat too with a heartbreaking tale of lost love and angst. Well done Emma.
We are beginning to get some lovely mentions on twitter at #imaginewriteinspire make sure and use the hashtag if you are tweeting about the competition.
Thanks for reading and chat to you all tomorrow
Carmel x
Time Too Lay the Past to Rest By Emma Murphy
You left me, you chose to run away to the other side of the world over me Frey, I poured my heart out to you not even a goodbye you just left, you don’t do that to people you love, I begged you not to go, I begged you Frey, all you left me with was a lousy text message, do you know how much that hurt? You know what I did when you left? I cried, I cried to my own mother Frey, I cried over the girl I love leaving me to run away from her problems at home, and run away from everything she’s scared to feel, Frey you know how long it took me to let go of you, how long it took me to be happy again, you can’t just turn up here after all this time and expect everything to be ok, for us to be ok, It just, it doesn’t work like that “ You think I don’t know that ? You think it didn’t kill me to not say goodbye to you ? You think I just took off without giving you a second thought ? Your wrong Aaron, I cried and I cried and I cried myself to sleep every single night, I never stopped thinking about you ever, “ Why didn’t you call ” I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t bear to hear your voice at the other end of that line, I would have broken and been on the first plane home ” And that’s such a bad thing ” Aaron I had planned this trip before we had ever got back together, we were over, I was trying to move on with my life start again, but you, you just came swanning back into my life like you always did and made me fall in love with you all over again, You broke my heart “ You broke mine” Aaron we were two kids who fell in love with each other so young, you were all I ever knew, our relationship was toxic, we were up and down from the moment we met, “ We always made it work though ” Yeah by brushing all our problems under the carpet and pretending they didn’t exist ” I tried talking to you about things and tell you how I feel , but you, you just shut me out ” I know “ Why did you always do that ? Truth ? Why not, may as well lay all our cards out on the table nothing to lose at this stage, Why are you laughing at me? You haven’t lost that smart mouth of yours ” You always did like my smart mouth, It’s nice to know i can still make you smile even after all this time ” You never did fail, I think you made me smile as much as you did cry through our rollercoaster seven years together ” It was one hell of a ride alright ” That it was “ So are you going to talk? Well it’s what I came here to, I guess I never felt good enough for you ” Why ? You were you, I was me ” English please Freya ” You, you were the gorgeous popular boys boy, every girl was crazy about you, you were never one to shy away from the attention either, even though I had you I never felt I fully had, you made me feel so insecure about myself the hole time we were together, I pushed you away because I always felt you could do better than me but at the same time I never wanted you know that in case you really left ” Freya I, you, you should of talked to be about this stuff, pushing me away at the start I could take, but completely shutting me out and keeping me in the dark I never understood with you, the more you pushed me the more I pulled away from you, but I always came back to you, because I loved you, I wanted you, you weren’t just my girlfriend you were my best friend, I could tell you anything and you never looked or treated me any different “ because I loved you, I took you any way I could get you” Frey why are you back here now after all this time ? You were right about me running away from my problems and feelings, I’ve been running for five years, it’s time I faced up to my past and lay it to rest once and for all, I can’t live in fear or regret for a moment longer” Is that what you’re doing with us ? laying us to rest ? I left things UN said between us when I left I’ve carried around this massive hole in my heart with me since the day I left you, I need that hole mended” So you’ve never moved on from me? From us? Not properly No ”
Babe I’m home, God I hate this Irish weather can we move please ?
I guess you have, I’ll eh leave you too it, It was really great seen you again Aaron, and em thanks for hearing me out “
Freya, No wait ”
Take care Aaron…
Emma Murphy is 22, living in Dublin. She studied Journalism & Media a few years back in CMI Dame Street but felt Journalism wasn’t really her thing but story telling was! Her dream is to be a script writer for a TV show one day.
