Writing Prompt – September 24 2010

The topic today is Roots – where we or our characters have come from, and what holds us there clinging tenaciously.

Start with one of the following sentence stems: (change the pronouns as appropriate).

I could feel my memory reaching backward, downward, burrowing into the past to find…

Everytime he thought he was done with it, something happened that …

My world was built on this bedrock…

She was bent like a wind carved bonsai, roots stubbornly attached to…