The Crane Wives: “Coyote Stories” Sentence Prompts
“When I was a child, my nerves ran wild.” “Nothing worth doing comes easy.” “No amount of fear will keep you safe.” “What if the step I take turn out to be mistakes?” “I loved you like the sun.” “I swear I didn’t mean what I said.” “You caught me in a moment weak.” “Sometimes I just can’t help myself.” “Are we allies or enemies?” “Do we bow out and take our separate roads?” “All is fair in love and ware, but I can’t fight with you anymore.” “But now my love is gone and I am left unraveling.” “I never knew that I needed you.” “I once loved a man who kissed me once before he left.” “I’m trying to make something of myself.” “I’m one deep breath away from a breakdown.” “The world is hostile, and I’m fragile and I need someone to kiss the cuts and tell me to keep trying.” “Does everybody have it together or are we all pretending?” “Can we all admit that we don’t have it figured out?” “But we best get a move on, or the devil we will meet.” “Drop dead sprint, my darling, now.” “That monster’s coming and it don’t care for you or me.” “You can’t trust a single thing I say.” “Don’t look too hard, cause you won’t like the scars he left in me.” “And all these words are sweet and meaningless.” “No man should stand to work all of his days and have nothing at the end of them.” “I got no money but the change that jingles in my pocket.” “My papa taught be how to howl, how to bear my teeth and growl.” “The hand that feeds deserves to be bitten when it beats.” “I swear that I loved you.” “I hear something calling me.” “Leave me weakened and dig my hole.” “But try as I might, I couldn’t bring myself to hold you.” “There are times where I still wonder about you.” “You are someone I have loved but never known.” “You’ll never see the reasons I had for keeping my claws away when they were close enough to hurt you.” “I am selfish, I am broken, I am cruel.” “Do you ever think of me and my two hands?” “Sometimes I feel like I’m lost in a desert.” “I want to believe there’s something left for me.” “I want to kindle a love that doesn’t age.” “I want you to prove me wrong.”














