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Gymnastics
laugh harder, dream bigger, smile wider and never let your goals out of sight.
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Prose Challenge of the Week: Write a piece of poetry or prose following on from this sentence: “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…” Think outside the box. 500 words maximum. Winner receives $25.
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Another sci-fi story

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away lived the brutal winds of salanahara and its tense people who did the same thing every day. Farmed the rolling hills and trained the stubborn livestock. Everything was the same for thousands of years until one year when's little girl was born with the name of treasure.

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Introducing: THE COPPERPLATE AWARDS, an annual writing challenge powered by Prose. The categories: Short Fiction (500 word minimum) Creative Nonfiction (500 word minimum) Poetry (250 word minimum) Write about the subject of TEMPTATION and submit your entry for ONE of the above categories to be considered. Tag the category for which you are submitting in your entry (#poetry, #shortfiction, #creativenonfiction). Submissions will be evaluated by Prose and a trusted panel of judges based on form, content, fire, and creative edge. Deadline: February 1, 2016 First place winners in each category will receive $500 and an iPad. Runners-up in all three categories will receive writerly swag (stay tuned for details). Winners will be announced on April 1, 2016 and prizes will be distributed on or before April 15.
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A world war ll story

When someone tells you your life is going to change you will probably follow their lead. When your life is so dreadful that you will try anything to make you happy again that temptation is larger. So when Hitlers people told me that killing innocent people was a religion and a superior one I believed them. They told me that Jews were killers and they disturbed the human world(and I believed them.) no wonder they created a saying telling you to always lead yourself. Even though far back in the line of my family Jews were in population I became s soldier to kill. I threatened old friends. I knew this strategy was not making me happier, but I never stopped it was like s drug and it was addicting. Every morning I awoke with a sour taste in my mouth, just like the sour actions I took. One morning I looked out of my tiny apartment and saw a girl with her mother getting beat to the ground. I made a decision, and it was the best decision I had made for a long time. I stayed home the rest of the week working on a plan to throw away all Natzi kind.

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Write nonstop for 60 seconds. Let it flow.
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Those darn huskies.

The cougars should have won that stinking game. The huskies suck this year and the won year that the Cougars actually are good they loose the apple cup.

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You write a line, and then have your friend write a line, until you have created a first chapter of a story.
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Gymnastics

When someone tells you to do something what do you do?

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Write a story or poem from the POV of a tree.
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Gymnastics

My long limbs continue to grow in grace and beauty as Humans threaten to break my elegant trunk and leaves. My bark may seem cold and worthless, but my fragile figure needs a protection layer. I am calm and relaxed. My hum and voice only follows through to those who listen to me. I am a tree, I will be the future.

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Seven word story.
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Gymnastics

I looked behind me, standing there was...

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Mango

Mango is my cat. She is very lazy.

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Finish roses are red violets are blue in your own way.
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How a gymnast writes

Roses are red violets are blue I like gymnastics, so would you

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Write the most terrifying "What if..." statement that you can think of.
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What ifs

What if I had to kill a tree and quit gymnastics because I was paralyzed.

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What landscapes do you feel closest to?
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Isn’t it obvious

The moving, turning trees shaking in the wind.