INANIMATE OBJECTS TALK

My brother Tim and I started trying to spur each other on to write more. He sent me a prompt that I enjoyed and want to share with you.

This is the email he sent to me:

I got this app for me phone called "Writing Prompts". We could use it as something to work from each week. I just opened it up and it says, "Inanimate objects in your room communicate at night."

We decided on seven words per line as the form, keeping it simple since it was our first joint effort.

HERE IS MY TRY:

WHY HE LOVES COFFEE by tex norman

The book by the bed said, “Not

much was read. Hey pillow is
he asleep?”

“Yeah,”replied pillow, “but not

deeply. His head bobs like a boat
moored on a windy night.”

“He’s got

restless leg syndrome, or so I suspect,”
said the bedclothes.”

“Well, if you saw

through his eyes,” the glasses explained,
“you’d see what he sees, you’d know
what he knows, you’d get why he
is troubled in sleep.”

“And why?” asked

the digital clock. “Will the glasses share
their insight? You know time is always
running out.”

“He gets that,” said his

journal.“He knows his time alive is
short, and that has magnified his shortcomings,
intensified his regrets, and shame waits for
him to sleep, so while he rests,
shame nibbles and gnaws on his guts.”

Hiscoffee cup asked, “Am I the

only one here willing to comfort him?”