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AJJ
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The Messes
Think about the most annoying, frustrating, and/or chaotic person you know. Maybe it’s your deadbeat friend, maybe it’s your messy coworker, maybe it’s your annoying brother who always asks you for money. Write a prose piece about them or from their point of view.
AJJ
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Late

It's late so late it's actually early. You come home from whatever you've been doing. Through the gate, across the yard, into the house then up the stairs. There your twenty something year old ass proceeds to wake up in turn your younger siblings, one still in elementary school to go lock the gate because you forgot.

Not kidding, she did it more than once and when we refused told us and I quote "If somebody breaks in in the middle of the night and slits all our throats it's gonna be all your fault." At that point we would say okay and go back to bed. We had four German Shepherds so we didn't sweat it. She just would have gotten in trouble for leaving the gate unlocked. Sorry to say she has only gotten worse with age.

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Devil May Care
The root of all evil, a tale of impossible redemption, or a nightclub owner in LA. What is the devil you hold in your heart, and how can you make us feel the angst, hatred, or regret of the original edgelord himself? Lucifer, Satan, Old Scratch. Misunderstood or worthy of fear, you decide.
AJJ
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Reviled

I don't hate you I feel nothing for you. I watch you live your life and find it mildly entertaining. I let it continue but could just as easily end it. I watch you curse everything I've done to you and take the credit. Blame me, despise me, revile me, I relish it. I let your hate wash over me, undeserved as it is because you don't know. I do nothing, I only ever watch.

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Challenge
"I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don't say." - Virginia Woolf
Say the thing(s) no one wants to. Any form.
AJJ
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There, There

Yes it's your fault, you knew what they were like from the beginning. You threw yourself into the abyss of love for someone who'd watch you fall. You tossed away everything of value in your life to make space for them. You rearranged your plans and sacrificed your future for someone unwilling to make the slightest change for you. You claimed love was enough but in the end it wasn't. We warned you that this would happen. That one day it would be over and you'd be left holding the pieces, staring ahead at what your life could have been. Now the day has come and we can't even say a word to you because it could send you over the edge. So I say it here to the blank page "I told you so".

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Challenge
Mirror You, Mirror Me
We are so rarely seen as we really are. Mirrors only reflect the reversal of our image. Imagine the world in which your reverse self in the mirror inhabits. Allow your mirror self to completely embody the dark side of your nature that you would never actualize in this reality. Don't hold back. Be honest with your darkness. Change your name if necessary. Win goes to whoever excites the animus the most.
AJJ in Fiction
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Necessary Skills

I am the same but also so different. What has changed? It's not what's inside but my actions. I stare at my other self through a haze as I do the things I spent my lifetime being taught to hold back. My words are what they would consider mean but I feel are honest. I've always felt I should voice them but was restrained, not by conscience but by training. "Don't say those sort of things they hurt people" I don't understand why they would but obey my mothers orders. "Hold back, repress it, if you can't change what's inside at least don't show it. You can't wince when people hug you, it's mean. You can't be disgusted when someone gives a simple kiss on the cheek. You can't tell people the truth so matter of factly, it needs to be softened. You can't live your life in silence in a corner watching but not engaging. Even if you hate it power through and live normally as you can."

I watch the person who didn't learn these lessons they are not loved like I am. I am unsure how I feel about that. Am I that unlikable beneath my facade, in my natural state? Do I even care? Deep down I'm not sure if I should thank or hate Mom for my lessons. The other me is alone but deep down I honestly believe they are happier.

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Challenge
"Everything you can imagine is real." (Pablo Picasso)
That's a scary thought... Poetry or prose
AJJ
13 reads

Endeavour

Can I will it into being

Can I force reality to comply

Can I make the world obey me

Can I do anything but try

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Challenge
Why?
We write. We like. We comment. We create poetry. We share. We post challenges. Why? 50 words or less.
AJJ
18 reads

Not Enough Words To Explain

Why send my words into the world unencumbered by my name

Why let others see what I've created using only a computer and my brain

How does this action so contrary to my nature benefit me anyway

I could better use my time and talents in a hundred different ways

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Challenge
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.” —Virginia Woolf
Create a poem out of whatever scraps you find lying around (your brain or otherwise).
AJJ in Poetry & Free Verse
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Buying Hope

Little scrap of paper that can vastly change my life

A random set of numbers where my hopes and dreams reside

They sit upon my table until eventually I check

Another loser as expected, but it kept me hopeful for a bit

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Challenge
object
(a poem)
AJJ in Poetry & Free Verse
16 reads

Will Not

I will not give in to convention

I will deny your good intention

I will not live in your delusion

I will cause you endless confusion

I will not give in and pretend to be

I will be different than you want to see

I will not live in your perfect existence

I will struggle but don't need your assistance

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Challenge
Shadow and light
"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light." (Pythagoras) Poetry or prose.
AJJ
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Polarity

You brand me a being born from darkness, and you're right

But you neglect to realize, shadow also comes from light

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Challenge
Thanks To The Challengers
Many of us look forward to checking the “newest” challenges frequently. Thanks to a multitude of great folks who take the time to create interesting topics. It may be helpful to understand which types of challenges are most appealing and what motivates you to respond?
AJJ
17 reads

Spark

I like it when there are multiple ways to interpret the challenge. Otherwise I feel like someone else could post something similar and I can't add anything new.

I write when the challenge appeals to me or I get inspired reading it. The best challenges I feel are broad, vague and mostly fun. I want an idea, a spark to follow, not a shared box to dig around in with all my fellow prosers.

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