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Writing Prompt

WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a story that includes a nested narrative.

Use a narrative structure where multiple stories are told within a larger story. The inner stories can be told in any order, and they may or may not be directly related to the larger story.

Writings

Plain Clothes

There’s rock candy in my mouth.


I watch the cars pull into the parking lot, Parents come to pick their young’uns.

By a red car stands a short round man Exchanging words with his contrasting daughter.


The girl’s life last night took a turn for worse

But Daddy dearest doesn’t want to learn:

What a girl has done is not always her fault,

And if one life is birthed, another will be taut


She twirls h...

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*trigger warning sui!ide*


*ring ring*

There is nothing worse than a stranger's words weighing on your shoulders

Their life now dependent on what you say next

Is another soul going to meet god?

Shredded and torn by the world 

The claws of society tearing it bit by piece

Until it feels it has no other choice but to leave,

To float upwards and meet the other angels who left before their time.

My job...

Angels Suicide

her wings tarnished her halo no longer vibrant her words silent

Like an echo in the absence of light

She dances on the edge of the ledge

Filling with dred as her once known to be god expels her from her heavenly kingdom

I guess life is just never fair

With heavens care

And hell's glare

She’ll whisper into the cold night

Reaching for someone who is not there


Hell is a teenage girl they s...

The Grand Chronometer

The Grand Chronometer.


Murkstone-Snatchly was a bustling city. Fires and forges, grime and graft made it a place where the sun was an occasional guest, and mostly seen only as a dim yellow-ochre orb through soup-like clouds. The rain generally failed to keep its distance, and generally failed also to have any cleansing benefit upon the place.


A peculiar thing seemed to be happening at the Murks ...

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The Murder Case

Olivia curls up against the wall eyes large as she watches daddy stab mommy. Painting the white walls dark crimson.


Jack gets home hangs his coat on the empty coat wall, the world goes dark, a demons holds his daughter hostage in it’s arms. He screams, frees his daughter and attacks the demon.


Emma has heard of death and was always fascinated ďżźby it, sometimes even wishing it upon herself. Now ...

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The King’s Crown

Every night there had to be one cowboy, Ember thought. He tossed another handful of sawdust over the sick on the ride’s floor. Days like this made Ember wish he was on one of the classier rides like Pegasus’ Flight. Ember remembered a guy proposed to his high school sweetheart twenty years after high school on Pegasus’s Flight. Gilded winged animals and crying babies, nothing bad ever happens on a...

The Ark

Captain Noah Dayton stood at the helm of his flagship The Ark, a colossal feat of engineering and physics. This metal and glass wonder was 1200 square miles, roughly the size of Rhode Island. From where he stood on his command deck, he oversaw a vast landscape of forests, mountains, lakes, valleys, and everything in between. Several cities and towns were spread out below. There were even more beyo...

The Slaughter Field

There is a battle happening in a field that once bloomed with flowers of all colors. Now the grass is rusty with dry blood, and the dirt cracking from summer rain that will never come anyway.

Not a single soldier is fierce, though they all do fight. There are good and bad warriors on both sides, but each one of them have the same terror pulsing through their veins in the same, fast pace.

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The Stories That Are Short And Sweet

There was a man he was dating a woman it turns out he had a twin an they swapped places with each other and then twin had a baby with the other brother girl friend





Try to figure that out...

Assault on Ft. Peralta

They shouldn't le here. We should have been ready. They needed more training, they

Needed more battle that didn't include training pads or helmets.


Jeremy has a hole through his forearm. The bleeding is under control. The hysteria is still building, though I can see he’s trying to be brave. He’s doing his best to keep Jamie and Erin from assuming the fetal position and shifting to a liability.


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