Prompt #25

Recall a favorite or memorable song lyric. Make it the title of a story. Brainstorm story ideas.

This Must Be the Place

Cameron picked up and moved every year. She couldn’t stand feeling stagnant in life–she chalked it up to her self-diagnosed ADHD. Or OCD? She could never remember which one she had decided on.

She was typically following a job or a man, or even a strong craving for a certain cuisine (this was how she ended up spending a summer in Osaka).

Each November, like clockwork, a wave of restlessness would pick her up and sweep her to the next location–Prague, Tel Aviv, Manila…each year she seemed to be drifting further away from her small hometown on the coast of northern California.

It wasn’t until her 32nd birthday when something inside her began to stir–but this time it wasn’t restlessness. It was rootlessness. Suddenly, the exotic landscape outside her window had lost its charm. She wanted to go home. 

And so she did.