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WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a story that opens with a paradox.

A paradox is something that appears to contradict itself, but makes metaphorical sense. For example 'Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind'.

Writings

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TW: cussing 

People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted.

I stood there, staring into the abyss and thinking, wondering where I went wrong. How’d I get here, what led it so far from my path; how I get so far from something so close?

Contemplating what to do next: retracing steps, crying, throwing shit. Why’d they all turn their backs on me, how I was the villain in this story? I thought back to the p...

Ice And A Heating Pad

I can resist anything but temptation.

Hence why I’m now holding ice against my swollen ears. I wish I had a better story for you. I sized up my gauges. For those of you who don’t know what that means, I’m sticking acrilic cone shaped spears in my ear where one might have an earring in.

You know what, just google it....

Crying over birthday cake

Crying over brithday cake,

sitting to my front.

One flickering candle.

Icing full of rot.


Number 14,

seven times two two times seven,

Two lonely numbers,

Does that mean I am alone?


Tears stream down my face,

Rivers a salty flow.

While the candle flame

shifts too and fro.


No party for me.

Lonely and boring:

describes me too a tee.

Friendless and lifeless as can be.


Just lunch,

some presents,

M...

Paradoxical ?

One step forward is two steps back. I didn’t know it at the time but I wasn’t going anywhere fast. Steps back in time is where I wanted to climb . But there’s nothing for me back there. I liked to think I was going to be a big actor or a great icon. That was something that almost seems impossible now. How could a small child have such large aspirations. Well those aspirations are nurtured. What ha...

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Pnuomenatic

I’ve realized my strength lies in my softness

Rounded muscles, and closeness to death


I write for love, because it was what I had left

I write for my lungs didn’t always have breath


I write because my heart

Stopped beating in my chest


I write so I can speak

In my actions to the deaf


If they cannot listen

If that’s what they choose


I win when I change in my ways

The ways I don’t lose


The...

The Hard Way

She muttered under her breath, that single aphorism oft repeated in times of great trepidation: “You have to go backwards to go forwards.” Who knows where she heard it. She quite suspected that she had invented the saying, since nobody in her life had ever been able to teach her anything.


Falling meant falling all the way, till you hit bottom. Even after you found yourself in the dirt, in a blood...

Letting Go

You were the best thing that I never had

The hope for my future that lingers and lingers

I kept a white-knuckle grip on my ideal of you

As I wished the strength would slip out of my fingers


But your presence was truly intoxicating

The way your smile and laugh lit up every room

I still can’t tell if I was imagining it all

Caught up in a haze of my infatuation with you


Is it wrong to look back and...

The Friends

They say that your friends always have more friends than you do. It is an interesting paradox that has baffled many. I feel like it isnt true for me though. I have a ton of friends. In middle school, i was actually voted most popular. Like 90 percent of the class voted for me.

I’m no Regina George or anything. I don’t gain friends through fear. I do things to help people. I join clubs. I talk to ...

You Can’t Lose What You’ve Never Lost

My favorite quote from my poppins returns is this paradox. So let’s dive después into the meaning. 


In a world where the notion of loss runs deep, one finds solace in the thought-provoking paradox: "You can't lose what you've never lost." This statement challenges the traditional understanding of loss and invites us to ponder the true meaning of possession and ownership.

The paradox suggests that...

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You Can’t Lose What’s You’ve Never Lost

My favorite quote from my poppins returns is this paradox. So let’s dive después into the meaning. 


In a world where the notion of loss runs deep, one finds solace in the thought-provoking paradox: "You can't lose what you've never lost." This statement challenges the traditional understanding of loss and invites us to ponder the true meaning of possession and ownership.

The paradox suggests that...

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