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Listening in the night

A SILENCE acrostic

By Hannah MoorePublished about a year ago 1 min read
Listening in the night
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Shhh, did you hear that? Do you think the house sounds st…

ill? Is that now a noise downstairs or are my thoughts so p…

liable to make these dangers up? Must I always feel so scared? Will I n…

ever feel I’m safe? I’m sure I heard a noise again, is it something para…

normal, houses make weird noises, right? A creaking and a s…

cutter? Will I be murdered in my bed? Tell me there is nothing, pl…

ease my frightened mind. Let me drift off into sleep and leave these fears behind.

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  • Cathy holmesabout a year ago

    I love what you did here, how the pauses work so well with the topic. I found myself listening This is wonderful.

  • Testabout a year ago

    I love the "texture" and relatability of this one Hannah! Very clear!

  • Kenny Pennabout a year ago

    This is one of the most creative acrostics I’ve seen, Hannah. I loved it!

  • Shirley Belkabout a year ago

    such a creative way for an acrostic! Hannah style all the way

  • The Invisible Writerabout a year ago

    This such a creative way to do this. Really well done Hannah

  • L.C. Schäferabout a year ago

    This is definitely the cleverest one I've seen so far! I had to read it twice!

  • Absolutely love it! Things going thump in the night… creepy! Or just floorboards contracting 🥹.

  • Paul Stewartabout a year ago

    Dammit, Hannah. How can I even compete when you pull this out from your wonderful mind? This gets all ticks from me...distracts enough from the acrostic format while also tying into it, clever formatting gives it a very disjointed feel but as you have used words carefully sliced, they still qualify as English...and it all keeps with the theme. Just yeah, you deserve all the cake. All the back pats for this one. Truly fucking jealous right here. Well done.

  • Lamar Wigginsabout a year ago

    I love how Pl...ease and ease works either way. Clever work, Hannah!

  • Omgggg, you're so brilliant! Those words have meanings whether they are together or separate! That blew my mind!

  • Caroline Cravenabout a year ago

    You’re such a fab and creative writer. This was brill.

  • Rick Henry Christopher about a year ago

    How unique... as we can only expect from Hannah Moore!!!

  • Mackenzie Davisabout a year ago

    I'm counting down the hours until this gets Top Story! Such a fun interpretation of the prompt, and so deftly done. WOW! (And if not TS, then definitely a placement!)

  • Sonia Heidi Unruhabout a year ago

    My goodness, this is impossibly clever. Those small sounds in the dark -- terrifying.

  • Lana V Lynxabout a year ago

    Oh, I loved how you split the words, as if the person is so scared they started to stutter.

  • Andrea Corwin about a year ago

    Ooh great job and creepy twist!

  • That was really clever how you did that! Well done!

  • D.K. Shepardabout a year ago

    Well I’m going to have anxiety at bedtime tonight haha!

  • Babs Iversonabout a year ago

    Creative and impressive!!! Thought about doing what you did!!! Bravo!!!💕❤️❤️

  • Cindy Calderabout a year ago

    What a splendid and unique approach to the acrostic challenge!

  • Rachel Deemingabout a year ago

    Excellent!

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