“Knot”: Inktober Day #4, Writer Edition

I’m using Inktober prompts to generate daily writing

I’m always jealous of my visual artist friends, especially my sister, when Inktober rolls around. Then this year I realized that even though I don’t draw, I do write, and it might be fun to take the same prompts and see what twenty minutes of writing on the given topic elicits. So I thought I’d just play and see where things take me (knowing that a lot of what I write will be dreck), and maybe you’d like to join too. Here are this year’s prompts.

I never understood that whole “engaged to be engaged” thing. There was this one girl in tenth grade whose summer boyfriend gave her one of those stupid upside down rings with two hands holding a heart with a crown or whatever, and she wore it all fall like it was a three carat diamond, wanted anyone and everyone to see it, and especially loved getting to say, “well it means we’re engaged to be engaged, you see” and S. and I would catch each other’s eyes and fake gag because ew can you imagine being fifteen and thinking it’s cool to be engaged to be engaged? No. Thank. You.

But then S. goes to college out of state — private college, one of those liberal arts ones you have to fly to — and she comes back and she’s met someone. And he’s Irish, apparently. I’m thinking accent, leprechauns, whatever, I mean for months I thought Irish meant Irish. Then Patrick or whatever his name is comes home with S. for that first Christmas and it turns out he’s from Boston. As are…