Writing Prompt – Day 5

We made it to the last day of the week! 5 days in a row! Yay!!

I know I’m posting this late in the day, but better late than never. It doesn’t matter what time of day we write our prompt, as long as we stay committed to it!

Okay, so without further ado, here’s our prompt!

You wake up in someone else’s body.

My example :

It was a normal day, like every other day… okay, maybe not a “normal” day, but just because I woke up in someone else’s
body, it wasn’t enough for me to have changed my ways. In fact, it was more of a blessing in disguise. I felt liberated, with more freedom than I’ve ever felt.

I felt more like me than I ever have before.

It’s not that I love what I do but more along the lines of I have to do it. If I don’t, then I get these migraines and if I’m being honest, well maybe, just maybe, I slightly enjoy it too.

I’m not weak but I’m not strong either. If I were strong, I would fight these urges that I know are so wrong of me to do. I wouldn’t risk the life of this stranger’s body I woke up in. But it has been quite convenient for me considering I don’t have to worry about my own fingerprints being found in a crime scene. It’s a daunting task covering up my tracks.

Do I wish I could stop?

Maybe.

But not enough to quit.

So how did I end up in another person’s body? Well, that my friend is a mystery. I may be an expert at covering up
my crimes, but I’m no expert in the ways of the universe. Ha, if only I was, then I’d be a millionaire! And maybe I wouldn’t hurt anyone anymore.

Maybe money would satisfy me just as much.

But… being a millionaire wasn’t in the cards for me.

Waking up in this – I would say middle-aged – body was.

And this is how it happened…

I am not even kidding you; I woke up to my alarm clock, stretched, maybe yawned a little too dramatically, and went to take a shower before I tackled yet another day.

And that is when I noticed something wasn’t quite right.

I looked in the mirror and BAM! Another man – a handsome man I must admit – stared back at me.

Was I scared?

Not at all! I was invigorated! I was excited! I was…

EUPHORIC!

I could do anything – I mean anything – without having to worry.

Or so I thought.

What I didn’t take into consideration, was the fact that maybe, just maybe, this was permanent. Maybe I would never wake up
inside my real body again. Maybe I would forever be cursed inside this young man’s, opportunistic body for the
rest of eternity.

If I had thought for even a second that I would be caught, thrown in prison, AND stuck in this body, maybe I would have
been more careful. Maybe I would have covered my tracks like a normal day. But I guess I was wrong. It was not a normal day after all.

And this is not a normal life. This is hell.

And I realize now that whatever the universe trapped me in, I deserve it.

But jokes on the universe, because I’m just crazy enough to kind of like this too.

Or maybe I’m just crazy enough to tell myself this is what happened to me, when in reality, I was never trapped in another
person’s body to begin with. It was my own dumbass mistakes that landed me here, in my own body, with no universe
out to get me.

Or maybe I’m just crazy altogether and none of this is real.

Well, the truth is…

You’ll never know.

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Haha guys! This is what you get when you are a tired writer and it is time for bed. You get some crazy writing lol!

But I had fun writing this nonsense anyway!

How did yours turn out? If you want to share, post in the comment section below!

I think it is safe to say that it is time for me to go to sleep. This concludes this week’s writing prompts. Stay tuned & subscribe below to receive notifications for next week’s prompts starting on Monday. Have a good weekend! (:

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