FlashNano25 Day 4: Blonde Wood

FlashNano 25

Day 4

Prompt: Write a story using Home Depot Blonde Wood 

No. I don’t want to do this. 

Read this prompt yesterday and have been feeling annoyed ever since. Pisses me off. You want me to write about a color? A color? Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, you walk this aggravatingly boring, pathetically pedestrian bit of story prompt into mine.

Oh my God this is so stoooooooopid.

How am I supposed to escape from reality, indulge my fantasies, pretend I’m not doing anything other than using things like writing prompts to avoid dealing with the fact I’m barely treading water re: my hopes, dreams, goals, when you wave this dull piece of blech white bread in my face? 

And don’t even get me started on how this is not helpful not one bit when it comes to giving me a way out of avoiding confronting the existential dread that has shadowed me like an adjudicated rapist since last November’s election. 

It’s like you WANT to make me nuts. It’s like you’re FORCING me to face facts. 

And the facts are these. I don’t give a rat’s ass about blonde wood. My country is dying. My rights are rotting. My students. Oh my God don’t even get me started on how much I’m worried about those kids and their families right now. 

And you’re asking me to use my precious energy to write about

a paint color

flooring

the potential song

poem

book title

character name

plays on words

blonde would

Hi, My name is Wood, Blonde Wood

Elle Woods 

Norwegian Wood

Out of the Woods

What would you do if you had a million dollars

What would you do if you had... 

“one shot... or one opportunity...
To seize everything you ever wanted... one moment...
Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” 

Yeah. That’s Eminem. 

My creative process is weird. 

I think I need a run.