24 January 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2626: peel the skin off

in Freewriterslast month

1000194092.jpg
Canva
Peeling the skin off is continuously an strangely fulfilling custom, isn't it? There's something around the way the surface gives beneath your fingers, or how the cut slides fair underneath the edge, lifting absent what's now not required. It's not a idealize handle. Now and then the skin comes off in clean, rich strips, and other times it tears, taking off resolved patches behind, constraining you to go back and choose at it piece by piece.

But there's too something hint almost it. The act of stripping absent the external layer feels like revealing something private, something not implied to be seen so effortlessly. What's underneath isn't always lovely. It can be bruised, unpleasant, or uneven. Still, you keep going since you know the genuine substance lies fair underneath.

It's unusual how such a straightforward assignment can feel so uncovering. You're not fair peeling absent a layer; you're breaking past a boundary, coming to something more profound. There's a calm helplessness to it, whether you're peeling an apple, an onion, or perhaps indeed a layer of yourself.