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Writing Prompt

WRITING OBSTACLE

Incorporate a famous quote that you like into a short story or poem, but change its context so it means something quite different.

The quote could be from history, a movie, a speech - but try to use it in a way that doesn't relate to its original meaning.

Writings

No trying

“do or

do not,

there is no

try”

i guess making

us work is just

failing miserably

not trying that

means i’m doing

nothing??

if only

i

could

try...

The Smile That Wasn’t Hers…

"I think it's a waste of time snooping around here," Natt said as she inspected a music box under the beam of her light. "Pretty sure the town made up the whole rumor."


Hunter leaned against a wall, cold and damp, watching her toy with the music box. A faint hum from the distance filled the room. The dust tickled his nose. Some of it made its way over his leather jacket.


"That's how most of the...

zysia

an empty mind is nothing but a corpse


buying memories out of an old cardboard box left in the corner of a flea market stall and playing them on film reels behind tired eyes


old bodies dripping with liquids that drip and spill, machinery creaking and failing and the lights blinking red, red, red, error, error, error


a brain bluescreening and shutting down down dow


pl...

My Shot

I sit at a table

The bartender behind

Pouring me glasses

The other messed up people here to


He is kind

Nice

I guess


I start to see double

Whats happening

Drunk I think

Wow


Another shot

I need more

I want more

“I am not throwing away my shot”


Right

I mean who would

Throw away the cure to pain

To sadness

The cure of life


It can leave you sick sometimes

But it is worth it

The sensation of nu...

He Felt Nothing

“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

***


He felt nothing.


Caleb felt nothing.


He didn’t feel anything when the guy scrambled off his and his girlfriend’s bed, a blanket wrapped around his torso .


He didn’t feel anything when he saw his girlfriend immediately put on a shirt as well, then underwear and pants. As she scram...

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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I promise you, we are going to get out of here.”

A whole crowd of children surrounds me. They’ve been here for their whole lives . . . . The Ranks have been holding them here, lying to them about what is outside these walls. Saying the world is nothing. Nothing but a lethal wasteland. The truth is that there is a utopia waiting for them to come home. The truth is that the Ranks want to train them...

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Folds Too Many

I contain multitudes

Folds I lose myself in

People I become

People I don’t want to be

And people who already exist.


I think therefore I am

I overthink therefore I am too much

I am this and that

I am anger and kindness

I am winter and spring and summer and fall

And I do not want to be

I do not want to be....

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Your Absolutely Bonkers

Finally I walk into the experimentation room with a facade of confidence. I then approach the subject. Dana Marcello: Age: 18. height:5,3. weight: 130. Parents: deceased. Mental conditions: Unspecified.

I look at the last one with a spark of hope and a little anticipation. Perfect.


“Hello Dana, my name is Dr. Chesh and I’ll be speaking with you today.”


“Oh, speaking,” she says sarcastically,” I...

Wish

Her wish is a desire

She wants but doesn’t need

She dreams about love

Her love is a dreamer

Her reality is not meant to be


Written By:

Ghostrider...

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Extraordinary

One glance is all it takes,

One glance takes my breath away,

One smile to make a heart flutter,

One smile to make my eyelashes batter,


All it takes is one glance, one smile, one word,

All it takes is one breath, one moment, one memory to fall in love,


“Anybody can fall in love and be blindly happy,”

Not everyone can take the moment to fall in love with nature,

Not everyone can take the time to...

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