seahorselover2006 started a writing prompt book a little while ago and I am going to do a short story based on the following prompt-

You have no shadow. Explain to me why this may be.

Since there were no set boundaries on how long it could be, I'll try to go for 100-500 words.

I've been this way ever since I was born and for as long as I can remember...

As a little kid, I would never go outside as much, or ever, as the other children in my neighborhood. I was unnaturally gray in skin tone with a fear of the sun and no fear of the dark unlike other children my age.

As I got older, I realized my fear of the sun wasn't the only thing that was strange about me... when I did go outside, it was like I became disconnected from myself and I would get so panicked that I would break down and cry until my parents would take me back into our house.

When I became a pre-teen, my parents tried to get me help, or at least someone to tell us what was wrong with me, but no one was able to figure out what was wrong with me. As a result, my parents would hide me and pretended I didn't exist outside of our house, even to relatives and neighbors. After a while, everyone in the neighborhood simply forgot I existed and went on with their normal lives.

Eventually, my dad left me and my mom, thinking that I was some kind of demon who couldn't be exposed to light or my true, hideous form would be revealed and blamed my mom for the way I was. He never looked back the second he closed the door on us and left us.

A year later, I was curled up in the darkest corner of my room, which was one of the only places I felt whole and safe when I held out my hand to a slant of sunlight when I finally noticed something I should have noticed a long time ago, I had no shadow which could only mean one thing... I was a shadow.

315 Words

How was that?

I wanted to try and depict pain as a feeling since I feel like I could use some work on displaying emotion, both in my writing and in real life.

I'll try to do different writings depending on what ideas I might have for whatever else Dipper posts in her prompt book.

See Y'all later!