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Writing / roleplay prompts based on the book The Lamb , written by Lucy Rose.
tw: violence, generally dark themes, toxic relationships & abuse mentions, slight suggestive content
โ Mama told me it was a hex. โ
โ We are what we eat. โ
โ It doesnโt feel like four years at all. โ
โ It was always the quiet and dark nights that kept me awake. โ
โ Iโd heard Mama tell many folk tales. โ
โ They felt lost, and that is what beckoned them to us. โ
โ She learned to make them feel invincible. She made them feel in control. โ
โ Men are stupid when they feel powerful. They become complacent. โ
โ She was once in love with the local gamekeeper. โ
โ He liked holding my hand in his. โ
โ He used to measure the size of his fingers and palms outstretched next to mine. โ
โ I forget I am a giant. โ
โ Papa wouldnโt have been happy, but Papa was gone. โ
โ Iโve felt nothing like this before. โ
โ I knew she didnโt love him the way she thought she did. โ
โ The hole in her chest is never filled. โ
โ When my reflection stared back, I saw the nuisance everyone thought I was. โ
โ He is someone who only sees what he wants and nothing else. โ
โ The people out there, they will never understand us. โ
โ We arenโt like them. Weโre woven from a different cloth. โ
โ They will never accept us. โ
โ I wasnโt like them in my heart. โ
โ Every intrusive thought felt like a desire unfulfilled. โ
โ I was born this way. โ
โ I wanted to know her inside out. โ
โ My daughter loves this song. โ
โ Draw no attention. โ
โ Itโs all much easier than it sounds. โ
โ It feels complicated. โ
โ I donโt like him. In fact, I donโt like most of the people here. โ
โ Though powerless apart, when brought together you can hold the power of the cosmos in your palm. โ
โ He didnโt care about me. He cared even less about you. โ
โ I want to hear you say it. Say that he is selfish and he doesnโt love you. โ
โ There is no one more vulnerable than a lone mother and her child. โ
โ The snow is beautiful and glittering, especially if it goes untouched. โ
โ That is what motherhood is like. Treacherous and disappointing. โ
โ I want to see what you do when you put the word in your mouth and speak it. โ
โ Has anyone told you that you have a beautiful smile? โ
โ Iโll come to find you in the morning. โ
โ Sheโs different from the others. โ
โ You can stay as long as you need. โ
โ Can I help you with them? โ
โ The things that happen to us change us. โ
โ We canโt save each other. Not really. โ
โ We have company. Itโs not a good time. โ
โ Can we take this somewhere else? โ
โ You left me. For her. โ
โ I wonโt leave again. This is where I belong. With you. โ
โ Love, after all these years, has finally found us. โ
โ Itโs okay if you canโt find the words. โ
โ There really arenโt words to describe what it feels like, are there? โ
โ He has a child and a wife, but I think he was falling in love with me. โ
โ You promised yourself to her a long time ago, but you were always mine. โ
โ This is what family is supposed to be. โ
โ I want you to stay here. โ
โ Please. Let me keep you. โ
โ I know you arenโt a good man. But I donโt think youโre a bad man, either. โ
โ Has anyone seen him since he left? โ
โ You donโt have to be hungry anymore. โ
โ I donโt think she loves me anymore. โ
โ Iโm only looking after you, I hope you know that. โ
โ You know, itโs my job to look after you. โ
โ Youโre not as tense as you usually are. โ
โ I know youโre right here with me, but Iโm trying to hold on to every detail because Iโm scared you might disappear. โ
โ I want to remember everything. โ
โ Do you understand? Iโll never leave you. โ
โ Youโve loved another woman before? โ
โ I thought that was love, but now I realise I didnโt know what love truly was until you found me here. โ
โ You make me feel full. โ
โ The absence of love had spoilt something in their souls and mine. โ
โ Our love was rotten, but still looking for the burning it craved. โ
โ I miss him, sometimes. โ
โ You canโt miss someone you didnโt truly know. โ
โ He loved the idea of me before he peeled back all the layers. โ
โ Men love the idea of women. They love the question about a woman; the mystery yet to be solved. โ
โ He didnโt love me. He just wanted a wife. โ
โ I was expected to be perfect and quiet. Compliant. โ
โ Do you think I look pretty? โ
โ You are the most pretty. โ
โ He could be earnest and sweet, but his temper was short if he didnโt get his own way. โ
โ The devil looks as ordinary as you and me. โ
โ Youโve got big awful bags under your eyes like youโve not slept. โ
โ Is that what you kids do for fun these days? โ
โ It wonโt be like this forever. โ
โ Itโs okay. Youโre going to be fine. โ
โ You did well today. โ
โ I could listen to your stories all day. โ
โ Tell me about your mother. โ
โ Itโs such a lie that we have to love our own blood. โ
โ Iโd give her my beating heart if she really wanted it. โ
โ My mother was a wicked thing. โ
โ She was hell-bent on getting me into my husbandโs marriage bed so I could give her grandchildren. โ
โ We can belong to each other. โ
โ Being a mother is a big job. โ
โ Humanity is made up. โ
โ Our empathy is waning as every second passes because itโs not supposed to come so naturally to mortal creatures. โ
โ I donโt think thatโs true. โ
โ I will protect you both. โ
โ She doesnโt like ugly things. โ
โ Thereโs nothing bad about a wish. โ
โ Years feel longer when you arenโt loved the way you want to be. Or the way youโre supposed to be. โ
โ We all need different sorts of love to make us feel whole. โ
โ Iโm not just a mother. Iโm a whole person. โ
โ Why do you need hemlock? โ
โ Does she love me the way I love her or does she just desire me? โ
โ I know I can be selfish. My feelings get the better of me. โ
โ Do you want to come in with me? The water will be cool. โ
โ This is how we keep ourselves safe. โ
โ Is everything alright at home? โ
โ I wonder what I must look like to him. โ
โ How can you deny me what is natural? What I crave? โ
โ Iโm doing whatโs best for us. โ
โ You donโt know whatโs best for me! โ
โ Maybe you donโt know me as well as you think you do. โ
โ You see how she says things just to spite me? โ
โ She didnโt want me. She only wanted [name]. โ
โ There is not enough room in her heart for the both of us. โ
โ You are the most important thing in my life. โ
โ You can show me the blackest part of your heart and I will not flinch. โ
โ I want things to stay this way forever. โ
โ To feel a little baby inside you is like nothing else. โ
โ Iโve travelled for a very long time. โ
โ I was born in a small town and I couldnโt wait to leave. โ
โ All that time, I just needed a reason to settle. โ
โ Iโve met so many people in my life, but none of them will remember who I am, whether I was a passing face or a lover. โ
โ I wish I could see the things youโve seen. โ
โ No? Then sheโs not yours, is she? โ
โ What are you thinking of? โ
โ Take those feelings and hide them. Push them down. Keep them in the dark. Keep them where no one can see them. โ
โ It hurts when I try to forget her. โ
โ Iโve had to do that before. Put my heartbreak somewhere I could not see it. Itโs sometimes for the best. โ
โ Itโs hard to do it all on your own. Sometimes I donโt want to anymore. โ
โ Sometimes, I think about you in ways Iโm not supposed to. โ
โ I wanted to make sure everything was okay. โ
โ He kept you late. What was that about? โ
โ Come to bed. Itโs time for you to rest. โ
โ We are family now. You belong to us. โ
โ You have to try to put good into the world, otherwise everyoneโs putting bad into the world. Someone has to swallow their pride and make things okay. โ
โ Can you do something good by doing something bad? โ
โ Everything has its place in the world. โ
โ I think we all deserve a small piece of happy. โ
โ Whatโs this bad thing youโre so worried about? โ
โ I didnโt mean to frighten you. โ
โ It was anger that changed her. I had broken free and now it controlled her. โ
โ Why did it have to be me? โ
โ She was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong person. โ
โ Get away, or Iโll pull out your teeth. โ
โ Iโm scared she will leave me. โ
โ Sheโs insatiable. โ
โ Come inside. Youโll catch a cold. โ
โ I donโt want to leave you out here all alone. โ
โ Iโve changed for her. โ
โ Iโm not settling anymore. I want to hunt. โ
โ Your pulse sounds the same as your fatherโs. โ
โ Iโm not lying. Cross my heart. โ
โ With my own flesh, I formed you in my womb. Weโre made of the same cloth. โ
โ You feel this hunger the same way I do. โ
โ When you love someone, you promise to love all of them. โ
โ Sometimes, when I look at you, I see him. โ
โ She told me to try something new. To get my anger out. โ
โ Stay. Just for a second longer. โ
โ I didnโt feel anything like that. โ
โ I felt like everything had been scraped out from inside of me. โ
โ I know how capable you are. โ
โ Prove yourself useful. โ
โ Sometimes I imagine what life would be like without you. If youโd have still haunted me anyway. โ
โ Tell me you love me. โ
โ I felt like being alone. โ
โ I donโt think I want to be alone anymore. โ
โ Youโd do anything for me. โ
โ Every word I spoke was gospel and you looked at me like I was the most beautiful woman in the world. โ
โ Do you know the story of Saturn and his Son? โ
โ His son would grow bigger and stronger than he himself ever was. โ
โ I want to tell you something. A confession. A secret chapter of my life. โ
โ Thatโs the thing with babies, theyโre destructive little things before theyโre even out of you. โ
โ I didnโt want to see the oh-so-perfect family that took my son. โ
โ I was fifteen and somehow it was all my fault. โ
โ You donโt have to run anymore. โ
โ I donโt think you should marry him. โ
โ Youโll get bored with him quickly. โ
โ What are you smiling about, freak? โ
โ You want to be just like me. โ
โ I wanted to kill him. โ
โ Maybe Iโm already like you. โ
โ Iโll make you miserable for this! โ
โ Iโm scared I will disappear. โ
โ What were you thinking, doing something so reckless? โ
โ Youโre going to do exactly as I tell you to do. Nothing more. Nothing less. โ
โ Iโm going to set you free. โ
โ Itโs the thing sheโs best at, making people love her. Fall in love with her. โ
โ I want to keep her safe from a world that canโt understand us. โ
โ I canโt keep you safe anymore. โ
โ Itโs so easy to get to you. โ
โ When did you become like this? โ
โ You are always going to be lonely without me. โ
โ I know youโll grow bored of her. The same way youโve grown bored of me. โ
โ I could have been so much more than this. โ
โ What did you say to him? โ
โ I canโt go with you. โ
โ If I tell you something, will you take it with you? โ
โ Laughter and love came in abundance but it spoilt them. โ
โ What do you want us to tell them? โ
โ People will draw their own conclusions. โ
โ She is a person who knows exactly what she wants, and takes it. โ
โ Dry your tears. Thereโs no more time to waste. โ
โ I never wanted to be a mother. I just wanted to be a person. โ
โ None of this was supposed to happen. โ
โ I donโt want to be a mother. โ
โ You make me hate myself. โ
โ Iโm never going to tell her Iโm sorry. โ
โ You need to learn to behave yourself. โ
โ Love changed her. โ
โ Tell me about love. Real love. โ
โ When I think of the word love, I think of the first time I knew I looked beautiful. โ
โ Their attention felt like a promise that Iโd be loved and looked after for the rest of my life. A human sort of love. โ
โ That doesnโt sound like love to me. โ
โ I donโt think you love me. โ
โ Sometimes I feel connected to you. Drawn to you. Like there is a thread between you and me that can never break or be severed. โ
โ I dream of hurting you and I like the way it feels. And I know you feel the same way about me. โ
โ Lots of mothers donโt love their daughters. โ
โ Do you think Iโm ugly? โ
โ I draw you as you are. How I see you. โ
โ I wonder if this is what being a real human is, accepting you are pieces of other people, too. The people youโve loved and the people youโve hurt. โ
โ Sheโs everything Iโve been looking for. โ
โ I know you think Iโm a monster, but we all have a bit of dark inside. And light too. โ
โ You were supposed to be a promise of happiness, but youโve eaten me alive. โ
โ I wonder if we were born with something broken inside us. โ
โ I can be myself now. โ
โ This isnโt what I want. โ
โ You donโt know what you want. โ
โ Hasnโt our little one done such a good job? โ
โ I love you. I really love you. And I donโt need anything else except this. โ
โ This, just you and me โ it feels right for the first time in my life. โ
โ Iโve spent thousands of days hiding. Changing myself. โ
โ This is what love is supposed to feel like. โ
โ This will be unlike anything youโve ever done. Unlike anything youโll ever do again. โ
โ Youโll never taste anything like this again. โ
โ From this slumber, they will never wake. I made sure of that. โ
โ Even in death, they crave touch. โ
โ Because I made it so, this ground is safe for strangers to tread. โ