Book Review

July Prompt #2

July 2, 2018 /

Prompt:

Describe or expand on the color blue in 5 different ways/scenes.

My Writing:

Her eyes are all you notice as she tells you to leave. Rimmed in the redness of her anger is her pain, the sorrowful blue that once was as crystalized and clear as her laugh but is now the dull color of shattered trust.

Her voice breaks as her small hands beat against your chest, pushing you out of the room that you had shared together until you shared it with someone else.

I see home in the way the mountains fade into the distance, the atmospheric blue making way to a vibrant green as I take each step forward towards family, towards comfort.

The dark blue of a bottomless ocean is the sound the piano made at night, the pianist’s pale hands pressing against each key with an urgency only understood by him. But the girl next door, sitting beneath her open window, hears something far beyond the desperation he plays with. She hears his life, each emotion, shown in every shade of blue; from the lightest of sunny skies to the cool greys of a thunderstorm. She hears his periwinkle laugh and midnight dreams, his indigo desires and navy aspirations, his cobalt tears and arctic nightmares.

The tortured tips of his fingers are all he can see, but she sees the truth and the entirety of his monochromatic soul.

Her dress was blue, not pink! (This is a fandom thing. Who gets it?)

A list of blue things I currently see:

  • The bar across the top of my screen of Microsoft Word reminding me that I am currently writing
  • The application with grey brackets, hence the name Brackets, warning me that I am losing control over html
  • The vibrant design of Photoshop telling me that, as soon as I’m finished writing this list, I should get to work on a client’s design
  • The bowl to my right that is proud of me for healing well enough to eat the semi-solid dinner of macaroni and cheese
  • The “VOL 42” displayed on the stereo hinting that I might be listening to my instrumental writing music just a little too loudly
  • The box of tissues that I honestly wouldn’t have even noticed if I wasn’t doing this exercise
  • The book, Percy Jackson and the Olympian: The Battle of the Labyrinth, that I’m glad my younger brother is reading. It practically begs me to read it again
  • The covers of childhood movies, Kipper, The Emperor’s New Groove, Madagascar, and Finding Dory (ok.. that one just recently came out) that tempt me to just stay a kid forever