#aaylaprompts

"there is blood everywhere and i am lost in it. i breathe blood, not air." "she didn't deserve death. i did — i do." "your hands are wet with the blood of an empire." "is it my fault?" "survival is not beautiful." "i'm not dead but not alive either. i'm just a ghost with a beating heart." "a wolf is a wolf, even in a cage, even dressed in silk." "i'm afraid of what i've become." "how quickly the blade becomes you." "i was trapped in that nightmare, shaking, trembling, terrified." "darkness there, and nothing more." "i'm going to be the deadliest piece on the board." "have you ever looked fear in the eyes and said, 'i just don't care'?" "i think i am a better ghost than i am a human being." "inside me, something seethes. inside me, some feral animal claws at my ribcage, trapped." "i am someone who did not die when i should have died." "your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." "i met evil when i was only a child." "inside my head, the war is everywhere." "my bones are smouldering and my knuckles are bloody. forgive me. forgive me..." "it's time to forgive yourself. you're not that person anymore." "i exist. in thousands of agonies, i exist." "i wanna be me again." "my soul bleeds.... and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole." "can you remember who you were?" "i want to rest. i want to breathe quietly again." "i feel it's my anger that has helped keep me alive." "you can't burn what's already been scorched." "how can i ask anyone to love me, when all i do is beg to be left alone?" "the cage is open. you can walk out anytime you want. why are you still in there?" "fix it, please... fix me." "i'll survive. somehow i always do." "i can't get back to myself." "i can't remember." "tell me a ghost story." "a wolf will never be a pet." "i was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes." "fight me." "i did not mean to be cruel. i swear i am good. i am good, i am kind. i have love inside of me... some place far, far away." "you will survive; but you will become someone else." "you have been much alone these last few years. alone and angry." "memory is punishment." "your throat is raw from screaming to a god who isn't listening." "if i am anything, it is violence." "for most people, it's history now. but for me, whenever i close my eyes, it all comes back clearly." "how tired i am." "crawl inside this body — find me where i am most ruined, love me there." "i was born in an abundance of inherited sadness." "i punish myself for my whole life, my whole life i punish." "is the blood on your hands dry? is it slowly disappearing? mine isn't." "i have done bad things. i can't take them back, and they are part of who i am. most of the time, they seem like the only thing i am." "if you feel nothing then why are you shaking?"

"never half-ass two things. whole-ass one thing." "the less i know about other people's affairs, the happier i am." "i'm not interested in caring about people." "i like saying no. it lowers their enthusiasm." "i would prefer she ask for my permission so i can say no." "i was born ready. i'm [first] fucking [last]." "i am not a sore loser. it's just that i prefer to win, and when i don't, i get furious." "if you don't believe in love, what's the point of living?" "because it doesn't exist, because that's nonsense, because you're an adult." "i do not approve of this." "i gave her a kind nod." "everything i do is the attitude of an award winner, because i've won an award." "i was talking to the ribs." "not to worry, i have a permit." "i can do what i want." "normally, if given a choice between doing something and nothing, i'd choose to do nothing. but i will do something if it helps someone else do nothing. i'd work all night if it meant nothing got done." "you people have no idea what you're talking about." "that's funny. somebody just told me you were queen of the gays." "uh, thank you... for this. uh, this all good. night good. uh..." "i know more than you." "when people get too chummy with me, i like to call them by the wrong name to let them know i don't really care about them." "i hope the rest of your day is cool beans." "i came here for the same reason people go to the zoo." "i once thought i had a friend. then it turned out he was the single worst person i have ever met." "just give me all the bacon and eggs you have." "please do not approach me on the street." "when i eat, it is the food that is scared." "there's been a mistake, you've accidentally given me the food that my food eats." "is this not rap?" "you had me at meat tornado." "i know what i'm about, son." "anyway, please do not misinterpret the fact that i am talking right now as genuine interest in art and attempt to discuss it with me further. end of speech." "i can smell the sulfur coming off her cloven hooves." "i can't go because i don't want to." "i don't think so. i think we're gonna be fine." "i cracked the bottom of the toilet bowl." "he might have just disappeared off the earth." "i wish this office had only walls." "since i am not a rabbit, no, i do not." "counteroffer. you take me nowhere, and i talk to no one." "why is everyone else so bad at eating?" "losing on purpose is a form of lying." "i hate everything." "everything before that was a mistake." "do you see the problem here?" "keep your tears in your eyes where they belong." "i suffer from a disorder called sleep fighting." "there will be alcohol there, so i will go as well." "creativity is for people with glasses who like to lie." "i'm a simple man. i like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food." "when did kids get so interested in fun?" "well, this is great." "i'm heading home, so as to not have to be here anymore." "we have one activity planned. not getting killed." "on principle, i never say anything that another person is obviously trying to get me to say." "people are idiots, [name]." "what's it like to stare into the eye of satan's butthole?" "i regret nothing. the end." "i regret everything." "i'm not sure i'm interested in that. no, i am sure, i'm not interested in that." "this is my hell." "i hate the public. the public is stupid." "i would rather bleed out than sit here and talk about my feelings." "i don't want to seem overdramatic, but i really don't care what happens here." "my friends know i have a strict no call policy." "i don't drink alcohol from that portion of the color spectrum." "i used a fake name. les. les vegetables." "usually i take it neat, but i will make an exception in the name of health." "literally everything is a weapon." "i love nothing!"

"i still wake up with things to tell you." "too much yet not enough happened between us." "loving me is going to haunt you for a lifetime." "you'll never recover from that kind of devotion." "parts of me remind me of you." "but i never forget. i've engraved your name on the palms of my hands." "and the boy i love is a body..and bodies die." "something of him / stuck with me, a splinter." "yes, i did care. very much. i had never been in love before." "you left me behind." "watching someone you love die is an image you never forget." "the idea was to not fall in love." "i must have loved you a lot." "i sleep so that we can meet..." "so many things i wanna talk to you about." "i looked. you were already staring." "i would choose you in every lifetime." "what if i never forget you?" "what if, all my life, when i meet someone new, i can never fall for them because they aren't you?" "i have loved you since we were children." "it should have been me." "i fell in love with your soul before i could even touch your skin." "our forever was supposed to be longer." "i thought we'd have more time." "you were the first one i loved. you were the first love i lost." "you never think that the last time is the last time. you think there will be more. you think you have forever, but you don't." "i always wonder what it would've been like." "i was doing great, but then they said your name." "loving you changed my life. losing you did the same." "i'd rather have the darkest parts of you than have nothing." "this is who we are, a product of war."

"do i belong to myself?" "am i the same when you look at me?" "i would do anything to be seen." "watch me as i disappear." "is it the way you pictured it?"

"laying in the silence, waiting for any signs i'm alive still." "i don't wanna lose it." "i'm not getting through this." "should i pray? to myself? to a god?" "pull me out of the train wreck." "a one-in-a-million chance is still a chance." "you can say what you like, but don't say i wouldn't die for you." "i'm down on my knees." "unsay these reckless words."

"did you want to be something more?" "mark my words, there's a thousand things, that don't wash out with anything." "something is rotten inside of me. i have to find it and cut it out."

"you never had it, i never got it back." "i saw you wasting everything you ever had." "i'm a sinking boat." "i loved you wrong in the sinking sun."

"my confession won't suffice." "there's too much life left in your eyes." "i know you never betray the truth." "you're just another saint." "the cracks in the pavement, just another sign." "this roof will collapse to kill us both inside." "the corridor halls of emptiness." "i can’t take it anymore." "you’re the one who I adore." "wishing I could’ve been there to save you." "i know that if I kiss you it might--just burn us alive."