The following is a featured 100-word story from the December Writing Challenge. It was another night of missing you. And when my ceiling cracked — split in two — I wasn’t startled. The walls crumbled to the ground, until all was barren. The city sunk around me; I was the only thing for miles. […]
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How does one reach a star That shines out there in the universe Not begging to be noticed But unable to control its effect On viewers all around it? Does one simply call out to it Hoping above the cacophony of voices Begging for a second of attention, Yours will stand out? Or does one […]
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The ticking of the clock tells me it’s time to dream, About the rise of an empire or perhaps the downfall of a king. Should it be about the towers embracing the skies or about how these dreams were woven of thievery and lies? Should it be about how one empire lavishly grew or more […]
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In my dream she is a baby still, cradled in my arms, sheltered from any harm that might come her way. As I hold her, she looks up at me, and I can see she feels the depth of my love— never wavering, ever constant. But in reality, she is twenty now and has left […]
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so this is how life passes at fifteen: we wake up to the violent moon, breaking window panes and shredding plastic blinds. our bodies are sandbags holding back the Mississippi, stripping off clothes that wrap like peeling wallpaper around our skin, pounding beaten sneakers on icy sidewalks that reflect the sky. our days are clockwork— […]
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an empty house like sour grapes our fortress we sit side by side on the porch make watercolors out of pain told, love nothing good comes from being gone we are sick but let’s send the demons off evict the passengers stuck to our skin i feel it all but we gotta stop remembering a […]
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A dream Kept captive In the forgotten corners of my soul Cries and screams For its innocence Pleads and begs For justice It desires to fly To be unleashed into the world It fills the empty void of my heart And asks me to let it go Except I can’t For I too am a […]
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Dear Future Me, I hope you’re happy. Yes, happy—and passionate, full of creative energy. Whether that energy translates into your writing or any other artistic form, I just hope that you’ve been nurturing the spark that lights up your life. I wonder if you still notice the beautiful minutiae around you—the static sparkling off television […]
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Sleepy eyes, Distant skies. Nothing can stop me From drifting off to A dream of an abyss. Free of drivel and waste, It’s the only place That offers peace. At times it gifts me With wild corners of my mind: Short lived adventures, and poetic wishes… They never have enough time. I try to remember […]
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