Yet another week has passed. If I’m honest, I’m always waiting for the Thursday blog hops so I can share my Six-Sentence Story of the week and read others and get out of my studies for a little bit (which I love but I need something more to life).
Musically, I’ve been stuck on yet another album this whole week—Masochist by Night Club; the song Fatal Crush has been on repeat a lot and is also currently playing.
The weekly writing challenge is hosted by GirlieOnTheEdge, and you can find links to other participants’ work through the link-up. Please do check out the others too, there are a lot of great writers on this hop.
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
The link is live from Wednesday at 6:00 PM until late Saturday night.
Spread the word and support fellow writers!
PROMPT WORD: FLAG
Six-Sentence Story - Logic Behind a Feeling
“No, no, no—that doesn’t feel right,” Ellie screams at her screen, pressing the backspace harder than needed at the lines: it may have been him, it may have been me, true, false, false, true, true, true, false.
It is as if her mind itself is experiencing a syntax error, trying to find the logic behind her emotion—true or false—ringing in her ears as she fights the lump in her chest, her heartbeat irregular, as if it were trying to catch her attention.
After a few sips of coffee, she writes the lines: maybe he is true and I am false, maybe it is the other way around, maybe we were never meant to fit, maybe what I feel is not meant to be.
But what her words fail to grasp is that life is not built on Boolean logic, and you cannot flag a feeling.
Because between the ones and zeroes exists a slit of space, a superposition where true and false can coexist.
Yes, between the night and the day exists a space that writers try to put into words, painters onto canvas, musicians into sound, and science to understand.
Perhaps I could invite you to read more of my work:
If you like short stories I have them scooped up into one category (including the six-sentence stories).
Or perhaps I could interest you in poetry and refections or something more personal like the Blog.
I also happen to own an IT studies blog in Estonian and "Chaos in Spring" can be listened to on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming services.
I do so love being one of those tasked with interpretation!
Me too.
Thank you Violet.
Reelika, your 6th sentence captures the essence of what art ( among other fields – can only speak as an artist) journeys to discover in those unexplored topographies.
Thank you Spira, I actually missed your comments if am honest. I tried to capture it and am happy someone saw it
Good point: “life is not built on Boolean logic” You might well be right.
Thank you!
Logic? Always useful – I think? Love this!
Thank you for commenting, yeah logic can be useful and it doesn’t apply to everything…
friend of mine once (misquoted) ‘I think, therefore I scream’.
How un-natural (and) terrible and wonderful* a state some find themselves trapped in. Not being actual words, screams (of pain) and moans (of pleasure) are not easily assembled from a box of syllables and phonemes according to a pre-printed instructions sheet.
It has been said that creativity manifests three ways: to simply demand attention, to find novel ways to re-assemble parts well-worn and the last (and best) to bring into being something that did not already exist.
Good Six, yo
*the core meaning of the word, not the embroidered wall-hanging, ‘to be filled with wonder’
Thank you so much Clark and that screaming and moaning part is actually true—I think.
Am glad you liked it too :).