"On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand."

I've realized something over the past two weeks: I no longer fear failure. Oh, I still don't like it, of course and I will continue to do everything I can to avoid it, but I don't fear it. I'm not sitting here across the room from my Astor Cups thinking "I have to defend this. I can't let someone take it away from me." I know that I am one of twenty-two very accomplished drivers and that any one of us could be holding the trophy in 2017, and I'm okay with that.

( Because what I've learned is it really is true, no one can take it away from you. )

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Shelby Manning
Need For Speed OC
576 words

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

When I was ten years old my entire life changed. ( It happened so fast and without any sort of warning that it was about to happen. )

Muse: Connor Rhodes
Fandom: Chicago Med (One Chicago fandom)
Words: 511

(I got this feeling in my bones
something loving god only knows
and I can't sleep oh I won't sleep
How can I sleep when nothing is enough.)

I don't know what to do. That sentence keeps rolling around in my head like a constant reminder. My partner is off the books, the department I work for may be a lie, my relationship is strained, and two weeks ago I got shot in the stomach. And I don't know what to do.

Nothing was ever supposed to be like this. My father was a cop, and so is his brother, and so was my grandfather. We are the blue line and that blue line means something. It means doing the right thing and helping people and stopping those that would hurt them. Not lying and covering up and looking the other way while other people get hurt. This isn't at all what I signed up for and yet I can't quit because I'm afraid of what happens if I'm not there to try and stop it.

( I see so much. Mostly I see pain. )

Muse: Det. Grace Hollingsworth
Fandom: Original Character
Words: 514 words

( 1 ) Muse prompts: LYRICS (500+ words, first or third person)
- "On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand."
• Stand, Rascal Flatts

- "I got this feeling in my bones
something loving god only knows
and I can't sleep oh I won't sleep
How can I sleep when nothing is enough."
• Cold Sweat, Band of Skulls

- "it's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again."
• Times Like These, Foo Fighters

( 2 ) Muse prompts: QUOTES (500+ words, first or third person)
- "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

- "Love is like a hole; once you fall in, it’s hard to get out." - Unknown

- "I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor." - Horatio Nelson

( 3 ) First Person/Blog/Diary prompts (Private to just your muse, or Public for all to see - your choice)
- Don't let go
- Love takes time
- The night before

( 4 ) Drabble prompts (100-300 words, first or third person)
- Exhaustion
- Adoration
- Temptation

( 5 ) Ten Things (List)
- Ten things that stress you out
- Ten of your primary personality traits
- Ten movies you never want to see again

( 6 ) Picture Prompts
- ( Red skies )
- ( Marijuana plant )
- ( Under the sea )

( 7 ) Misc/Random (Single-Line Song Lyrics)
- "I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem." (Self-Esteem, The Offspring)
- "Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there." (There There, Radiohead)
- "What kind of fuckery is this?" (Me & Mr Jones, Amy Winehouse)

For more prompts require single sentence responses (that can be used as RP conversation starters), see our LATEST PROMPT SET @ musebysentence