We are always sitting, or it seems like it for most of our lives. Of course, we need to walk around to get things done in life. However, we finally end up sitting as we wait, as we watch life pass by, or as we do our work.
Today/s prompt is about “Sitting and waiting, Sitting and Watching and Sitting and doing some work”. I thought about writing a few pieces based on this idea and decided to make it a community writing prompt.
You are welcome to start writing and creating with this prompt today. There is no time limit. Write a story, article, or poem based on this prompt, when you are “sitting.” You are welcome to “tag” me when you publish your literary prompt on the idea of “Sitting”. Thank you for taking part in this literary prompt, even if it is just offering your feedback.
Prompt Response 1: Sitting for the Examination to Begin
Waiting in patient expectation
Harry was waiting for his examination to begin. The room was getting busier. More people were coming into the examination hall. It was a well-lit room. There were about forty people in the room. Harry had prepared for this examination and now was the final day. He was nervous but he had to be strong to complete this paper.
The Examiner a slim lady in her forties wearing a pink dress holding the exam papers in her hand walked into the busy room. The bell rang. The room quietened down.
The Examiner started handing out the question papers and the answer booklets to the examinees. Harry got his paper handed to him. He looked at the questions and he gasped.
He was going to ace this paper; he knew all the answers. But, as he started to write the answers, he was shocked, as the answers were disappearing. He kept writing answers to all the questions, but the answers kept disappearing.
Harry was desperate, how was he going to pass this examination? Passing this examination would help him to qualify for a post as an astronaut on the space shuttle Nemo VII.
He was suddenly shaken awake. He was in space and he was hurtling towards the Sun in his shuttle.
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