clowns, mimes and the severely vertically challenged
fear, illogical
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turning out to be anything like my family
fear, biological
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Phobos, Deimos, Phrike, and Pan (greek gods and goddess)
fear, mythological
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Apathy
fear, sociological
~Melanie Blackwell
Trifextra prompt. Katherine Paterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia, wrote, “It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.” We are looking for a 33-word explanation of what scares you (or your character). We already know you’re intelligent, so, according to Paterson, you should have no shortage of potential subject matter.
Good luck. Have fun.
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very thought provoking….. acknowledging fear as being present across so many aspects of life. hmm.
brilliant piece.
Thank you, I greatly appreciate your comment.
I love your take on the prompt! Fantastic piece. I think I will submit something just for fun. 🙂
Thanks i just did it for fun because of your post… I have no delusions of winning 🙂 You really should participate!
I have a knee-jerk adverse reaction to competitions in which there are winners and losers. It is a conditioned response in which I have learned that nobody likes a winner, and even when I do not think I will win, I will purposely lose to make others happy. Unfortunately, losing becomes a habit that is hard to break.
I hear ya… The way I see it is we have already won because the prompt inspired us to write something 🙂
I enjoyed your tae on the prompt – clever and thought provoking.
Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
‘turning out anything like my family’ – now thereby hangs a tale. Great list.
oh I have lots of them 😉
This is a great take on the prompt! I love the way you’ve structured your piece. And that last fear is so chilling.
Thanks Suzanne glad you enjoyed it:)
I really love this. I’m so glad you submitted it. It’s so…clear and precise and, at the same time, fun. I don’t know what to say about the mimes and clowns, except they should probably be given a special area of the country to live in so they don’t scare everyone else, but I can tell you for sure that you will NEVER TURN OUT LIKE ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY. The Goddesses can be cool, the gods, not so much, as for apathy, if you do it right, you won’t notice that you’re even doing it and you’ll find that you have more time to write poetry. LOLOLOL Great work.
🙂 Thank you, I agree, I sure hope not, True and True! LOL Love ya 🙂
This is awesome.
Thank you kindly!
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Thanks!
Indeed, there are lots of very different fears. Well done!
Thank you so much.
This was a very intelligent piece and a great take on the prompt!
Thank you Glynis, I appreciate you taking the time to read and comment.
Quite logical…
🙂
Clever writing. I find the fear of clowns to be highly amusing as you can tell from my piece. 🙂
Yes…I remember ::shudder::
There are so many different types of fears, well-said. And the family thing, can’t really fear it anymore since it’s happened 🙂
Thanks!
I really like this one. The apathy fear may also be a fear: political. Thanks for linking up. Don’t forget to vote.
Thank you! I’ve read about half…want to read them all before I vote 🙂
Read all and voted for my 3 faves 🙂
Is this a regular challenge?
I’m not sure I saw the challenge on someonelses page and decided to participate… if you go to the link at the bottom of my post it will take you there. I think they do weekly challenges.
Tried commenting couple of times..showing some error..so don’t know if this is duplicated…Good job Melanie..you analyzed the fears so well…could see my own demons
Thank you for your double effort! I just got the one comment. Thank you so much, glad it spoke to you 🙂
Love this compartmentalizing of fears.
Terrific post!
Thanks so much “)
Wow! Excellent job. The analytical, OCD side of me loves how you neatly categorized your fears. 🙂
I’m glad it appealed to your disorder! LOL 🙂 Thank you 🙂
clowns & mimes
I absolutely Despise)))!!!!! xx
I know!! ::shudder::