Home sick

Exercise: Describe a location using all the senses.

Words: tough and scatter


I missed home. The putrid smell of the bog like an acid eating at your nose hair. It sounded stupid when you thought about it, I needed to be tougher. All the muck that stuck to your feet and slurped as you walked. But I missed it all. Especially the scattered little bits of lights that fluttered in the sky and caressed your skin like a lover. The air was so thick some days the fog tasted like charcoal. But it was home. It was quiet. I could speak and be heard, here in the city it was so loud. So busy. It overwhelmed my senses. I just wanted to be home.


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