Your Literary Implications #2: The Hourglass.

It’s been a minute since our last writing prompt, but we’re now back for more Your Literary Implications— a series of challenges set to make you think.

Subtle messages. Nuanced implications. There’s a story hidden beneath the words printed on page. What is it telling us, and what do we take away from it? Truly, the ability to make one go back to search for each detail… This may be an art unlike any other.

Our last prompt focused on Half-Eaten Apples. The set up for this one took place in an office setting, and served to kick off this series. Unfortunately we never received any submissions, so there’s nothing to shout-out this time.

Ready to change that? Participate in this week’s prompt, and then submit it to the form here. Let’s move onto the prompt, and don’t forget about our poll later! Let’s go.

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Prompt: The Hourglass.

Description: A tool which conveys time, standing in the middle of an otherwise empty bookshelf. You grab the rutted sandglass and turn it over, letting it rest in your palm. Little grains of sand pour from the top bulb, shifting into the bottom. An hour to ponder. An hour to wonder: What happens after the hourglass stops?

Rules:

• Use the hourglass as an allegory for the end of something, but allude to the flipping of the glass as a new beginning, or chapter.

• Responses should be no more than 1500 words long. Poems are allowed.

• After you have finished your response to the prompt, submit to our form to be eligible for a shout-out next week.

Once again we’re back for our promptly poll, which helps determine our next writing challenge. Take your time going over the options, and choose carefully. You are a vital part of making these prompts what they are after all.

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Okay, that’s it for this post. Thanks for taking the time to read through this, I can’t wait to see whatever you come up with in response. I do feel like the prompt is a little weak, so thanks for baring with me there. Until next time, Hazel out.