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AlexGranger
Writes causally. Creates constantly.
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AlexGranger

She Is Sweet, He Is Sincere

My mother is a flower

And my father is a lion

But no one is bothered

By a sleeping beast

When poison runs through their veins

Challenge
Write a short love poem. The catch is that the first sentence must have seven words, and the following sentences should countdown until you have only one word for the last sentence. Basically 7 words, then 6, then 5, etc.
Love comes in numbers.
AlexGranger in Micropoetry

Love Is Everywhere

Love is not stopping the bride's wedding

Seconds before she says 'I do'

Because love, unfortunately, is everywhere

Love isn't forcing her

Love is advising

Even without

You

AlexGranger

Sea glass never cuts

Because they of all things know

Tumults strengthen hearts

Challenge
Talk someone out of suicide
What would you tell your child, friend, family member, etc if they came to you saying they were suicidal? Some people don't have anyone to turn to so let's give them a place for some hope. One rule: No negativity. Suicide isn't a joke and it's not something to be ashamed of or made fun of.
AlexGranger

If you're planning on dying in a minute, you can spare me a few seconds. Just listen to me. Somewhere in this world, someone is holding a gun to their head. Someone is standing at the edge of a bridge. Someone is looking into a full bottle of pills. They want to pull the trigger so they can stop the horrible thoughts running through their head. They want to fall into the ice cold water to numb the heartbreak. They want those painkillers so they can kill something more than pain.

Maybe they won't do it today. Maybe they will. Who knows. They just need someone to genuinely listen to them. You're suffering right now, you understand what it's like to cry yourself to sleep at night...so wouldn't you want to be there to let someone cry on your shoulder? To help them?

If you end your life right now, you are ending the life of someone else. Maybe it's a friend, a future spouse, maybe even a complete stranger. You might not even know you're saving them. I'm not going pretend that I understand everything you are going through. I'm not going to lie and say that everything will be alright by tomorrow morning. Things are going to be rough, but it will all get so much better. You're young. If you end it all right now, yes, things won't get any worse. But if you do it, things won't ever get any better. If you kill yourself, you're letting all those awful things win. You have to kick them in the ass and show them whose boss by living. Inspire people, starting with yourself. Take a moment to clear your head and decide to live.

Challenge
Write a creative 'Roses are Red' poem. Change it up, make it funny, sad, romantic, scary, etc.! :)
Bonus points if you make me laugh! ^0^
AlexGranger in Poetry & Free Verse

Are Roses Red

Roses are red

Violets are blue

That is their color

That is their hue

Sunflowers are yellow

Peonies are pink

That's what I've been told

So that's how I think

I know flower petals

Are nature's soft silk

And that honey bees flit

And float to its milk

I know how they smell

Each unique in their scent

I know that they wilt

Leaves crisp and stems bent

Yes, roses are red

But please keep in mind

That color means nothing To a man that is blind

Challenge
Describe freedom in 15 words... with one caveat: you can't use the words free, freedom, freeing, freest or freer (even in the title).
AlexGranger

Flight

It is not the fact you fly, but the fact you choose to do so.

Challenge
Try this challenge. Write a 30 word short story (any genre), but there's a catch. The first and third sentence must contain 5 words each while the second and fourth sentence must contain 10 words each.
Just as it says in the challenge prompt.
AlexGranger in Flash Fiction

I met a lovely girl. We got married under a willow tree on a Sunday. We created three beautiful children. I still live in our house years later, but alone.

Challenge
Pick a turn of phrase that needs to be retired due to misuse or one that should be brought back. Such as, "You need to pull yourself up by your boot straps." Misused, this phrase originally meant to be ironic and a reference to completing an impossible or ludicrous task. Pick one and explain yourself.
AlexGranger in Stream of Consciousness

“Money Can’t Buy You Happiness”

Money can't buy you happiness. I'm not sure where the origin of this phrase came from or if it meant something different back then, but it today's modern society, it basically means this: "Money is not the most important thing to have in life, especially when had in excess." Which is true. There are many things far more important. Family, friends, education, a warm home. However, people often use this phrase incorrectly, considering money is extremely important. Money isn't simply paper and shiny coins. Money is the plane ticket to see family overseas. Money is the helper to get a future cancer-curing doctor into college. Money is the roof a mother wishes she could put over her starving children. When money is excessive, it is unhealthy. But money in general, especially when well-deserved, could be the key to one's happiness.

Challenge
Write a horror story in two sentences.
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”---Stephen King
AlexGranger in Horror & Thriller

He paused and looked wildly at the dark trees, trying to find the source of the noise. After a while, he shrugged it off as his colorful imagination and continued walking, dragging the body behind him.

Challenge
Drabble me this. 100 words of fiction. Not 99, not 101, not 847. One hundred words precisely.
100 words of fiction. Not 99, not 101, not 847. One hundred words precisely. On choosing the winner, I couldn't care less about popularity and likes. I care about the storytelling. With a good side dish of solid grammar and following the rules of sticking to a hundred words.
AlexGranger in Flash Fiction

As Heaven and Hell Unite

As cliché as it sounds, death is not the end. There is Heaven, and there is Hell, both of which share the similar timeline that is eternity. In Heaven, there are little angels with smooth skin and soft hair and feathery wings. In Hell, there are little demons with dark eyes and rough lips and leathery wings. On Earth, there are little people with equal amounts of great intelligence and ignorance. Heaven and Hell came together, afraid and confused, as demons and angels alike began disappearing. The scientists on Earth had discovered how to bring the dead back to life.