She walked along the track. There was just enough light to see her path. She couldn’t see very far ahead. This was bad. Light and fresh air was a long distance away. Walking wasn’t the difficult part. The surroundings were. It was dark, damp, and creepy. Like her nightmare come true. What awaits her if she reaches the end of this concrete tube? She had no indication. However, her gut feeling told her it will be very different.
She had time to concentrate on her thoughts. Bereft of additional external stimulation, she had nothing much to occupy her mind. Naturally, she thought of her problems. This tunnel corresponded to her intrapersonal journey as she battled her fears. Her psychological fears. Her imagination.
She forced herself to take deep breaths. This wasn’t as bad as her first tunnel. It was far more narrower, flooded and treacherous to travel through. When she described this journey, her listeners were incredulous. No way you could have remembered, they said. Their eyes screamed “Fake, Fake,” at her. She stopped talking about her memory. She ignored it until it became an elephant in her room called the Brain. That suppressed memory struggled free in her sleep. Its image roared as the flooded tunnel resounded with echoes of her futile splashes to swim upstream. Later, she learned her mother hated her for giving her a lengthy labor.
It is always better to be outside a tunnel than inside. She soldiered on.
Photo writing prompt – pic of tunnel.
This is the calendar of items to draw in May 2019
May 1 – Last
2 – Gap
3 – Container
4 – Artisan (I’ll try later)
5 – Visitor
6 – Receipt
7 – Cycle
8 – Routine
9 – Dish
10 – String
11 – Ribbon (Try later)
12 – Twine (Try later)
13 – Snout
14 – Hoof
15 – Claw
16 – Tattered
17 – Smoke
18 – Sea Foam
19 – Cup
20 – Jaws
21 – Hills
22 – Child
23 – Crane
24 – Neck
25 – Wind
26 – Wisp
27 – Weathered
28 – Captain
29 – Lost
30 – Found
31 – Tunnel
#SBSadrawingaday May 1 prompt “Last”. The last guy in the queue has to wait longer then the rest.
#SBSadrawingaday May 2 prompt “Gap”. The gap exposed his belly button.
#SBSadrawingaday May 2 2019 prompt “Container”. I use this container the first thing every morning.
#SBSadrawingaday May 5 2019 prompt “Visitor”.
#SBSadrawingaday May 6 2019 prompt “Receipt”.
#SBSadrawingaday May 7 2019 prompt “Cycle”.
#SBSadrawingaday May 8 2019 prompt “Routine”.
#SBSadrawingaday May 9 2019 prompt “Dish”. Comic panels about a customer waiting for his dish of food.
#SBSadrawingaday May 10 2019 prompt “String”, as in a string of pearls.
#SBSadrawingaday May 13 2019 prompt “Snout”. Cute pig snouts.
#SBSadrawingaday May 14 2019 prompt “Hoof”. No doubt the horse has four hooves.
PS. I had tried to draw for this #SBSadrawingaday challenge before but I couldn’t draw all of the items in the list so I gave up. Hopefully, I can interpret the prompts better now and get ideas to draw them.
I’m disappointed with #SBSadrawingaday challenge because none from the participants, and none from #SketchbookSkool, and @SketchbookSkool have visited. I have enrolled in many, many courses. Just one art student in the sea of thousands of others.
If you’re visiting, you’re likely to be from the public. Thank you for visiting!