WRITING PROMPT CHALLENGE — FEARS KILL DREAMS
One’s Deepest Fear Should Be Jailed In The Basement
Then throw away the key and nail shut the door
Franklin D. Roosevelt nailed it, and his declaration should stand as definitive.
In the meantime, I believe Rui Alves’s challenge is meant to be more personal and specific.
He hinted at what he was looking for, and I’m taking him at his word.
He wants us to bare our very souls.
Or at least to write with integrity, presence, and confessional detail.
That is, I don’t think my fear of cockroaches is what he had in mind.
Besides, it’s not fear that I keep locked up in my basement.
Here, let me extract the nails and turn on the single bulb, so we can descend those dark forbidding stairs to check on the status of my beast.
My fear isn’t loud.
It doesn’t rattle around inside the dungeon banging on steel bars with some handy rock or slamming stone walls with its head.
