TotW 263: Falling- WINNER'S CIRCLE!

**theSilentKiller** · July 23, 2017, 11:36 AM

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Falling

Thanks to Noif de Bodemloze for permitting us to use his picture!

Heiro de Bodemloze managed to convert the feelings of "Fallingforyou", a song by The 1975, into a written, lugubrious short story. A man depressed about the loss of a woman and a melancholic song about love - is there more to say? This conversion worked out perfectly, which brought him the first place of this Tale of the Week, and enough points for a bronze medal!

Heiro de Bodemloze's winning entry below:

TotW 263: Falling - WINNING SUBMISSION

"I think I´m falling. I´m falling for you.” The 1975 were playing themselves out over the radio and I could feel the high-pitched harmonising making me drowsy. Perhaps the fact that I was watching the sunlight emerging was a contributing factor. I could see one of those signs recommending sleepy drivers to take a fifteen minute nap, it was not a bad idea, but I did not have time for that.

I chose not to, was the truth. Sleep could take the pain away, I imagine that is why depression makes you sleepy. But I did not want the pain to go away, it was all I had left of her.

“Maybe you´ll change your mind.” The song ended. She won´t change her mind, I thought. It doesn’t work like that, maybe in songs, but not in reality. All the time and effort we had used to build, when the wall collapsed and after the dust settled the bricks on the ground were marked for ever, broken, disfigured and the wall we had built could never stand as it had before.

Still, I was sitting in my car after a long nights drive playing songs off my sulky-playlist hoping that she would.

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If you fancy taking part in the Tale of the Week you can enter a story for our Tale of the Week 264: Wizard School
Good luck and keep writing.

**Alwyn** · July 24, 2017, 03:54 AM

Congratulations to Heiro on your win and your bronze Writers' Study Competition Medal!

Thanks to everyone who entered, to Noif for letting us use your picture, to all who voted and to theSilentKiller for running TotW 263!

Looking forward to seeing the stories for TotW 264.