Disappear Prompt #7
With every disappearance comes a mystery, until it is forgotten, and then it never was at all.
To disappear can be both a fear and a longing.
For many, the fear of disappearance is the greatest fear of all. The root of loss: the change from the real to ephemeral memory — to a passing to nothing, unbeing. To disappear, to no longer exist, to vanish without a trace, and if something lost cannot be found, cannot even be recalled, was it ever there?
For others, this is a state for which they think they long: to vanish, to perish, to cease to be, to pass into oblivion, their only salvation from the pain of life.
And with every disappearance comes a mystery, until it is forgotten, and then it never was at all.
Join us for 13 Days of Dark and Weird. 13 prompts followed by 13 days of stories prowling through the darkening days to Halloween.
All the prompts so far:
Bonus words (for those who made it to the bottom).
Other words beginning with D:
Dread, darling, dormant, dark, dangerous, dungeon, devil, demon, dastardly, devious, deceitful, drear, deadly, doors, divine, damage, denigration, disgrace, destroyer, dire, devastation, devoured, dusk, drowned dreams.
