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[PI] August Contest/ Create a Creature Story
All in all it was a really interesting read, but I think there were a few things you could have adjusted to make it easier for the reader to understand. * The begining bit(where there was a lot of back and forth) would have been a lot easier to read if you had described a setting or even introduced the friend and the...
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A great read, you have a real talent for drawing people in. By the end of it I felt almost unnerved or unsettled is maybe a better word. Awesome job!
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DAILY PROMPT: What is your muse?
Avoiding an unfulfilled life. That's it.
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It's been 30 years since I have written a thing until the last couple years or so. One day, I just started writing. For some reason, I just needed to write. I don't always know where my story will go until I am finished. It's a surprise to me as much as anyone. So, back to your original question. What motivates me? *I ...
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My motivation is somewhat selfish, as I only seem to write to get the shit out of my head. If it stays in there, it literally drives me insane.
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I write to express feelings about situations that I dont think I could normally express to my peers at a level where I would gain much insight from.
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For whatever reason, it seems I need to write each night or my head gets too full... I've noticed that if I'm too busy to write at all before I go to bed, the next day I'll feel "out of it," like I have too much to think about. To me, writing has the same effect that the Pensieve has in Harry Potter-it's my way of "cle...
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The open road is rather relieving. Driving west, looking at the countryside, seeing nothing but plains. No one to talk to but yourself. Might as well write down the conversations. Driving is monotonous. Stay in the right lane, when someone is going particularly slowly, you pass them. And yet, you realize that you're on...
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Making people laugh.
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I write mostly to stay sane. I lost my parents years ago and kind of lost touch with reality. Its is so easy to become disconnected and fall into the vacuum that loss has left behind. I have moved around a lot and have somewhat figured out a steady way to take care of the basic needs, food and shelter and all of tha...
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A slew of errant thoughts and a vocabulary too big for it's own good.
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[FF] What's on the tape?
Jake walked into the moonlit study, eyes blurred from the subtle transition into awakening. Stumbling through the scattered books on the ground, his knee was caught by the low coffee tables bite. He fell to the floor, bringing the collection of papers around him down as well. His eyes caught a black box under his co...
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Roslyn stepped down the ladder facing forward and the box caught on the attic floor. She caught it with her left hand. Lugging the box to the TV, she flipped off the lid and grabbed the un-labled white VHS tape. She clicked the old Zenith TV on and slid in the mystery tape. “Hello, ladies. My name is Robert. First, ...
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**A/N: 198 Words, first story contributed to this subreddit. I would appreciate feedback.** “This isn’t a good idea, Mark.” Mark rolled his eyes, backing out of the closet with an old VCR machine in hand. “Don’t freak out *Brandie*, Mom and Dad will never know.” Large brown eyes narrowed as they always did whenever ...
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Veronica stretched out lazily on her grandmother’s couch. Upstairs, the rest of the family were happily chatting away. Veronica sighed. She hated the insincerity of family events. Her parents called her discontent a ‘teenage phase’, but she hated how her family could only express their feelings in food. Her parents had...
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He had been trying at the old vault for hours. He had discovered it in his attic; he inherited this house when his mother died, and was searching through the collections of old artifacts. This vault however, was impossible. He had tried and tried and tried, to no prevail. He had finally called a locksmith, and was wait...
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The team of four men assembled into the dark and creepy cellar, looking for information regarding as to why people were missing lately. One of the men closes the door and sweeps from side to side with a incredibly bright flashlight. It glints right over a TV on a stand with a VCR and a VHS tape next to it. Footsteps ec...
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Tying the boat to the bottom of the ocean, I pondered my luck. Swimming back up, I tied the anchor to the air and swam off, waiting for this unlucky yacht owner to come back and see his boat effectively immobilized, stuck between two points of the earth, forever. Well, until someone came up with a way to erode the Vehi...
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"Ok honey, see you a little later," Sam shouted to his wife as the front door thudded close. Peering through the blinds, he watched as the car rolled past the gate, closing automatically behind it. Sam exhaled slowly, turned, and made his way to the top floor of the estate. More attic, than livable space, the top ...
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Sam really couldn’t be more excited with his find, well, curiosity would be a better way to describe those feelings. He would call work and tell them he wasn’t able to come in today. The excuse as meaningless as the job that he would be skipping. How long had Sam waited for this? How many days had he spent as a slave...
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He tore purposefully through the myriad of boxes and bags that littered the less visited recesses of their house. It was here somewhere. He was fairly sure he hadn't thrown it out and positive she hadn't; she never threw anything out. His hands were dry and the cuticles on his finger tips were splitting. Each frantic o...
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Ronan was inspecting every dirt smudged letter and word on the label of the VHS tape. The plastic outside of the tape was cracked and the young man pondered what the contents of the tape was. He slowly eased the tape into his VHS. After much fuzz and distortion on the television, a good looking young man appeared on th...
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The light from the screen swallows the little room. He's never seen this before but he's pretty sure on how it ends. He slinks back into his world wondering why bother. Someone told him to watch this, he remembers. "Highly recommended". That's the only thing keeping him here. So he watches the tape as it drones on with...
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It was delivered by a smiling singing messenger with an unnaturally cheery disposition in a plain manila envelope, the kind Walter usually associated with news ranging from terrible to horrible. "Ahoy! Just need your X and the date, heck any letter and date, on the line and I'll be on my way," he said melodically. An...
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"What the heck is this?" Steve said whilst peering into an old, dusty cardboard box. "That, son, is a vhs tape. Before we had blu-ray...and before we had dvds...or dvr...or on demand...we had vhs tapes to watch." Steve's father smiled as he pulled the unmarked tape from the box, "It's been in this box in the basement...
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As she pulled the VHS out of the rewinder, she sighed. As she pushed it in the VHS player, she sniffed. When the TV came to life, she saw a beautiful circus, red and yellow and black and flowers and clowns and lions and elephants, and her horses. Her beautiful horses. A black one, a white one, the paint. All dancing ...
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It came in the mail, wrapped in parchment paper and tied with a string. This wasn't another heartbreaking letter. I wonder what they sent this time. I snapped the string with a pair of scissors and slid back the paper to reveal the cassette with neat cursive handwriting across the label that was too smudged for me to...
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**Went for a bit of a different approach, hope thats ok? I'm new here.** Wordless in our search for food, only spattering sounds of tiny claws on concrete. The terrible giants are certainly gone for the time being, as even the haunting glow of the noise box have ceased for the night. There are a few sources in the ...
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First time poster. Feedback appreciated. ========== Three friends rented a lake-cabin for the weekend. Friday night was filled with tears of laughter, screeches of joy and a long walk down memory lane. Saturday they played cards, cooked and reminisced some more. It was a good time. Sunday morning, Jane walks into...
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Edit: 200 exactly John gave another futile push, grunting, knowing the box would not move. Still, something motivated him to delve deeper into the attic. Besides, he knew if he quit his task he would only be given another. Couldn't he have some time to just remember his grandfather? John stepped back to admire hi...
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The light filled the basement as Stacey flipped the switch. It had been a hard few months for her. Nothing had seemed to go her way. She looked at all of his things around the room and started to pack them into boxes. She picked up his hat that was left in there. He wore it everyday. She looked at it with her deep eye...
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Ryan picked up the VHS and placed it into the player, hesitating for only a moment, and waited for the tape to start playing. After a brief pause, the tape played just static, and he ejected the tap before picking up the next one from a pile that never seemed to end. With a sigh, he put the next tape in, and waited for...
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James found the tape in a musty cellar "volunteering" to clean out an old, dead woman's trash-heap apartment. The stench of must, decay, and stale cooking still radiated from it. Disgusting. The video had occupied unusual spot - behind the run-down bed frame, wrapped in a cloth - which had prompted him to "borrow" it. ...
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He had passed away quietly. “What else is new?” thought Michael as he gathered knick knacks from off the shelf. Michael couldn’t understand why anyone would collect things like this. A commemorative mug from the local horse racing track. A snow globe with more dust on top of it than “snow” inside of it. Michael clapp...
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She hadn’t been looking for it. Sitting innocently in an unmarked box, was an old VHS tape. They were moving soon. All of the important things had been boxed up – all of his things. She wiped some of the dust away from the tape’s surface, before going downstairs where an outdated VCR was still plugged in. A young bo...
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**10¢** Garage sale yesterday. Got rid of everything not rotten from the garage, the attic, the closets. Wanted to see if anyone was willing to pay for the jerry-rigged VW bus, but it's a family thing, and it was requested I keep it running 'til another garage sale. Sold the VCR and a box of tapes we haven't watche...
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"Is that it?" He sighed. "Yeah. I hate watching these." "It's necessary. We have to know." Bob pushed the tape into the TV/VCR player that was all the department could afford. Up on the screen appeared a little boy, about three, clutching a teddy bear. "Don't. Please, not again!" The close ups were the worst. He review...
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Click. Amanda sat alone in front of the TV, shell-shocked. The VCR made more clicks, and automatically began rewinding the tape. A tear fell from from Amanda's cheek. Click. The rewinding stopped, and the VHS was automatically ejected. As if she had been waiting for this cue the whole time, Amanda got up and plac...
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I shuffled onward through the dust, the rubble. Looking up to the sky and down to the ground, I observed the nearly monochromatic grey-brown environment around me. Water was no where in sight, and pangs of heat stroke periodically warned me of death, like a tiger growling before pouncing on his prey. My stride was int...
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First thing I've written in a very long time. This subreddit's going to be good for me. _______________________________________________________ I hadn't watched the tape in years. I knew what was on it, more or less. I remembered the cake cutting and the tour of the house and Dad's corny joke to my sister Les. But I r...
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John needed a new VHS player. He still enjoyed watching all the movies he had collected, plus he could still record some stuff on cable. Determined to find a VHS player and a few tapes, John walked into the neighborhood pawn shop. It was easy enough to find a player, but the tapes were the hard part. Bringing the pla...
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Zinc always told me that there were treasures in the wastes. Special things. Beautiful things. I found one of them today. One of the beautiful things. It was a square box, filled with brownish colored tape. On the front it looked as if there had been some sort of sticker there, but all I could make out was a P. Glad t...
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[IP] My entire Inspiration/Prompt folder, with some of my favourite images from Reddit and around the web!
Wow! We could keep busy for a very long time with these images! I would suggest picking one per prompt. These are a great inspiration!
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[IP] My entire Inspiration/Prompt folder, with some of my favourite images from Reddit and around the web!
Do you I mind if I use one of these images to post my own prompt? I am interested in seeing the stories that could come from this http://i.imgur.com/k1Hfl.jpg/
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[IP] My entire Inspiration/Prompt folder, with some of my favourite images from Reddit and around the web!
You know what I find interesting, that I have approximately half of the same images. Hmm.
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[IP] My entire Inspiration/Prompt folder, with some of my favourite images from Reddit and around the web!
Do you know what this picture is of/where it is? [](http://imgur.com/a/n3rvp#4)
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To all the new subscribers...
I've noticed a great way for smaller subreddits to shoot up in subscribers is to get a comment Bestov'd.
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And *from* all the new subscribers - thank you. This is a seriously amazing subreddit - I can barely even begin to comprehend how useful this might be for me.
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I saw the best of this morning and had no idea that this subreddit existed. This might be what I need to get my wordslinging in proper order.
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I just found this subreddit and I am excited to lurk and then write.
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Definitely happy I found this subreddit. I haven't been writing at all - I feel that this might help immensely
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I'm so happy to have found this subreddit! Yay for front page goodness!
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This will help me get into a new habit of expressing myself in a creative way. Looks like it would be fun.
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This subreddit is awesome. It is the first one I've subscribed to so far. Of course, I do need to get in writing shape again, so sorry for any wrongs I might make. And a question: do you guys post prompts for other languages as well? It would be interesting to practice, I guess.
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I'm so glad for the new bestof policy where the default subreddits are forbidden, because I don't think I would have found this amazing subreddit if it wasn't bestof'd. I'm so glad I found it, gonna be a regular here I think!
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New, non-native speaker and probably going to stick to reading for quite some time, just wanted to say hurro and thanks for an amazing and super-entertaining subreddit.
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Gaerhold grunted heavily, "hooph". His heavy breath erupting a misty shroud into the clearing. The low sun instantly rendered it yellow as the dew clinging to the stretching blades of meadow grass. Soon the noon sun would rise and render the dew and mist as dead as the stag on their pole. "Have you good hold, or shal...
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I like this! Just what I needed.
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I'm very glad I found this subreddit. I've been suffering from a writer's block for Maker knows how long. Hopefully this subreddit will help me move in the right direction. :)
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I'm looking forward to getting into writing again - so excited to make use of this subreddit.
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I think you got all the subs from the /bestof post. That is where I cam from to find this awesome subreddit.
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There...there's no downvote button here. I feel so free!
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This is awesome...once my summer college work is finished up this week it will be fun to write and get some feedback.
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Came here from the best-of post on the front page. I'm so glad I found this subreddit! I need to hone and polish my writing skills and this place seems to be the answer. Thank you!
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I found this just now through r/bestof. I was actually just thinking earlier today that I needed to look up writing prompts and start writing creatively again. Once again, reddit solves all my problems. Also, no downvote button? I... it's so... beautiful...
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When the moderators of /r/BestOf announced they would be only allowing submissions from non-default subreddits, they were met with quite a bit of negative responses from Redditors who liked not having to browse entire /r/AskReddit threads and such. But I disagree. Had it not been for that restriction, the comment tha...
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Noob from the bestof crowd. Hoping you can motivate me to write again!
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Just monday night I was looking to write someting based on a prompt but google was giving me nothing but teacher exercises for students and then I saw the /r/bestof post linked here and my prayers were answered, thanks for being here!
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Hello. I was wondering if it is appropriate to post in this subreddit asking for paper topics. I.e. a writing assignment on a certain novel, etc. A reply would be much appreciated; I have asked before in another subreddit, but I received no replies.
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I'm so happy. Of course, I subscribed! I'm 10 and would really like to become a writer and maybe even illustrate my own stories. I really want to practice being a better writer. This subreddit looks perfect-- I just discovered it today-- and all these prompts are interesting and I'd like to try all of them out. ...
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This is an awesome subreddit...the anonymous factor will really help me share as I'm always kind of nervous/embarrassed to show real friends anything I write.
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This is awesome man.
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Yessss so excited about this, not sure if I'll really have time, but definitely thrilled. I just recently, in the last month or so, started freelancing and I LOVE it! I forget how great it is to be able to write and use your brain everyday, and actually enjoy what you do. I'm currently a quarter of the way into my boo...
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I'm jumping on this bandwagon. I hope everyone coming here is bright and able to expand this subreddit in a way that accentuates it's purpose. This seems like a sophisticated community. I would hate to see it crowded and dumbed-down just because it got bestof'd.
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From another new subscriber - thank you for creating the subreddit! It will be great to get the rust off my writing skills.
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I'm happy I found this place :) I love to write but I've been out of practice lately. I actually have a little blog I write short stories/blurbs to pictures I find online. Maybe I'll share that soon....
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[IP] Sad birthday kitty
Another birthday? They all seem to blend together now. As usual, I'm wearing my Sunday's best to this pity party. I used to love sweets, but now I have cholesterol and blood sugar levels to worry about. Just a sliver for me, thanks. I put my game face on as best as possible. I don't want to depress everyone. They're a...
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Despite how hard Laura tried to make it a joyous occasion, Charles' birthday was nevertheless just another painful reminder of how much time had passed. Learning to enjoy cat food, clean himself and deal with hairballs, working out a rudimentary form of communication all seemed like temporary fixes a couple years ago...
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Rupert had never wanted to be a cat. He had always liked cats - idolised them, even, as any three-year-old boy might be wont to do - but that was as far as it had ever gone. He would quite often lie down on the sofa, a perfectly happy human child, and play with his very own dear Mr Tibbles. He had never had any desire...
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"At least the cake came out right..." He thought. It was the fifteenth cake he'd been forced to bake for himself since his mother died. Same ingredients every time. The strawberries and buttercream, the only memory he held against the tired backdrop of the mundane. The list of ingredients, frayed and edges torn, was la...
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[IP] Sad birthday kitty
Smokey studied the flickering candles, memories whirring through his head. He knew today was supposed to be a day of celebration, but he simply could not muster any joy in his heart. Letting go a soft mrrow of sadness, Smokey looked around for his beloved master. Old hands now wrinkled after the many years, gently c...
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It's been a full year now. One orbital period of the sun moving around the Earth. Each day worse then the next. Each breath more painful then the last. When did my life start its downward spiral into hell. Was it when I lost my favourite toy Mr. Chuckles. Or when I was left outside in the middle of nowhere by my horrib...
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Julius never liked birthdays. He always had some kind of *thing* against them. Maybe it was all the attention. He was far from the star of the show. He preferred to stay in the shadows and observe. Birthdays always came with the idea of "it's your day". Julius never felt as though it was *his* day. It was just another ...
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I had them when I was 2. I still remember how terrified I was that day. I felt like life had just started for me, and yet I was already bringing other beings into the world. The fear melted away when I saw my baby boy for the first time. I actually became hysterically happy once his sister joined him. For eight weeks, ...
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The cat wept in the corner for no apparent reason. It was his birthday. There was no reason for him to be upset- but he was for some reason. He didn't even know why. His owner always celebrated it, although over years they had become routine for the both of them. His owner, Margaret, prepares a cake, and then takes a p...
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There were more presents last year...
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I couldn't help but frown as I snapped a picture of my little friend. I knew what he was thinking and it hurt to think about. He didn't even taste the cake in front of him, he could tell by the scent it wasn't hers...and he was right, it wasn't...it wasn't going to be her cake ever again.
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Picture Prompt; Write 500 words or less with this image as the inspiration.
The last piece of broken promises had shattered onto the floor. She couldn’t take it anymore. Tonight she was finally taking things into her own hands, under her own control. The tree top swayed as she scaled down its trunk and onto the hard ground. She took one last look at the house filled with dead dreams, wiped the...
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Its only natural. At 68 years old, why would we want to leave? Jane and I wanted to rip up our tickets home right there. We would just live in Paris. Is it that strange? Is it truly outrageous to do something so careless at that age? I didn't think so. What else did we have? We had a nice home, a nice neighborhood, and...
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