If Walls Could Talk

If Walls Could Talk

If Walls Could Talk

The Winners!

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. First Place in If Walls Could Talk. Third Place in 2023 Vocal Writing Awards - Horror Fiction.
If walls could talk, you would not listen unless you had to. How can I be so sure? One has not risen from the centre of the earth in a tectonic and seismic exaltation, stood stoic for three hundred million years through ice ages, through meteoric obliteration, and born witness to unprecedented evolution to be in any doubt of a few pounds of flesh such as you.
By Caroline Jane4 years ago in Fiction
At Last. Second Place in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk- if I could talk....I would say..well, I guess it depends on the day. If you'd asked five years ago, I would have wanted to talk to Janice. Janice came to see me every day for 36 years, from that first day I was open to the public. She was in a bad way then. I learned very little about her in our early years. She rarely spoke. She just cried and cried. I wondered if a person could ever run out of tears. She never did.
By Annie B.4 years ago in Fiction
The Last Word. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk, I would tell you that I’m sorry. *** I can tell it’s your first time inside. Your eyes widen as the metal door swings open and you clutch the pile of clothes up against you. You freeze in the doorway, blinking hard and swallowing, as if you’ve only just realized where you are. I wasn’t sure you were ever going to move, and maybe you wouldn’t have, if the guard hadn’t tapped you on the arm and propelled you into the room.
By Caroline Craven4 years ago in Fiction
Tomb Raiders . Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk, I would have revealed it to them. Early enough. It would have eliminated the bad apple right from the beginning.
By Gal Mux4 years ago in Fiction
My Soft Spot. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
“If walls could talk.” Yeah. People say that all the time. But do they ever listen? We rumble and fall, creak and groan. We crack and ache, listening to the mundane and the weird, the exciting, the pitiful, without any choice in the matter.
By Cassidy Barker4 years ago in Horror
Being is Enough. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk. Some people look at a wall and think there could be nothing worse than staying in one place your entire life. Never moving, never going, never leaving. “Life’s about getting out of your comfort zone” and all that.
By Joe O’Connor4 years ago in Fiction
Mind Waves of Power. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk, then you'd be in a lot of trouble. The whole lot of you. But especially you. I am your wall, and I've been holding your secrets. Closets don't hold skeletons like I do. I've got all the brittle bone dust of each and everyone of your deceits, your selfish exploits; all the schemes right from the control center of your life. Every last one of them.
By Kali Mailhot4 years ago in Fiction
A Terrible Thing. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
“If walls could talk,” I heard her whisper absently, as she sat on the top stair of my sagging porch under a dark sky. Barefoot, jeans rolled up past her ankles, Diana fixed her gaze on a horizon she couldn't see and barely blinked at all. A single cigarette sat alongside a book of matches from Frankie's Pub and Pizzeria on the buckled gray boards beside her. No bugs chirruped or buzzed in the night; no nocturnal scavengers rattled around the rusty trashcans out back. The big yellow dog rested her head on her paws and silently stared out into the same abyss as Diana, eyes glistening.
By Marsha Singh4 years ago in Fiction
When the Demons Ride from Hell. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
In Whitechapel, no one questioned if walls could talk. It was only a matter of what stories they would tell. Where some walls held secrets, the walls in this pocket of the city held revelations. Dark truths. Memories of sights that could shake the foundation of a world that was still trying to take shape.
By E.B. Johnson 4 years ago in Fiction
Hello Back.... Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk, would anyone even hear me over the wind rattling all the loose parts. The forgotten rooms and broken windows. The fraying wallpaper and crumbling bricks. Fireplaces that were once filled with warm flickering flames, now just dance with shadows and leaves. Cabinets stocked with cobwebs and doors that clang in the gusts, teetering on their rusted hinges. There are barely any remnants of the lives once lived in front of me.
By Gina Landrigan4 years ago in Fiction
Three Hail Mary's. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk. They built the church in ’73, the confessional booth was added early the next year. If walls could talk.
By Sean Bass4 years ago in Fiction
A Wall in a House. Runner-Up in If Walls Could Talk.
If walls could talk, this one would ask you for a goddamn cigarette right about now. I’m joking, of course. Even if you could supply me with one, I’ve got no arms to light it with, no mouth to suck in the smoke with, and no lungs to be blackened by it, because in case I wasn’t clear- I’m a goddamn wall!
By Noah Husband4 years ago in Fiction