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My only enemy is the mythologic beast called Writers Block.
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You have the power to kill five humans a year, with no negative consequences falling on you. How do you use it?
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HopeMarie

The Consequence

I do not know how it could be

No terrible consequence to see

Blood on my hands

And the disgust beneath

Someone else's grief

To know it was because of me.

Life and breath

Beauty and depth

Stolen away

Because of me.

A denial of someone's dignity,

An offense against my own.

I do not know how it could be

No terrible consequence to see

Someone dead because of me.

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buckettears

Depression

Depression is a war,

A fight against yourself.

Every word a punch.

Every thought a bullet.

Depression is a thief.

It steals everything from you.

The things left behind,

They trap you in.

Depression is a murder.

It kills who you used to be.

When you look in the mirror,

You won't see yourself.

Depression is a nightmare.

You go to sleep crying.

You wake up screaming,

Into a world of hell.

Depression is an ocean.

An ocean filled with emotions.

But every day,

Your drowning.

Depression is a bottomless pit.

When you fall into it,

You might never come out.

And no one can help.

Depression is a void.

You're sucked in.

But you don’t know,

If you'll make it out alive.

Depression is a war.

A fight against yourself.

You will struggle.

But you can make it out alive.

Challenge
Challenge of the Week #55: Write a story of 200 words or more about a stranger. The most masterfully written piece, as voted and determined by the Prose team, will be crowned winner and receive $200. Quality beats quantity, always, but numbers make things easier for our judges, so share, share, share with friends, family, and connections. #ProseChallenge #getlit #itslit
Cover image for post The Stranger the Better, by Dark
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Dark

The Stranger the Better

Please come in, my little friend,

Take off your coat before we begin.

Relax, take a deep breath, we'll be her awhile-

Oh my! princess, what a precious smile.

I have quite a bit of time to kill,

My plans, I hope, will be such a thrill.

Let's jump right in with your darkest fears,

You know, the ones that leave you in tears?

Oh, too much, my dear? Then what about dreams?

Of kings and queens and guillotines.

Or when you're falling and falling, screaming with no sound-

I love that one! Have you dared to hit the ground?

I'm also fond of the one when your teeth fall out- 

Big ol' chunks of chompers- that's gonna leave a puckery pout!

Let's not forget the one when you're at school

Without so much as a stitch; your lithe nakedness exposed by a ghoul.

Do you dread public speaking? Now that's a bitch!

The cruelest of tortures, spawned by some wretched witch.

Picture your audience in their undies, perhaps pray for lightning,

Any way you slice it, tell me it's not bloody frightening.

So now that we're in it, love, and it's sticky and thick,

I want you to tell me just what makes you tick.

You've stayed rather quiet, pet, which is just as I feared,

So say something, Goddamnit! or I'll garrote you ear to ear!

Now I've gone and done it, I've scared you, my love.

But I just need to be part of you, like wings on a dove.

You see, I know you well, sweetheart, I have and always will;

I'm that shadow in the night, the itch you dare not scratch,

      in the heat I'm the sudden chill.

I do hope you're comfortable, my child, for I've planned your extended stay.

As I said before- I've plenty of time to kill- but you'll not be allowed to stray.

Oh, did I happen to mention, my sweet, this just happens to be my birthday!

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WritersBlock in Poetry & Free Verse

There Was A Boy.

There was a boy,

But he was too good.

My highly flawed persona could never appeal to him.

There was a boy,

But he seemed too desperate.

Infatuation does not end well, especially when unreciprocated.

There was a boy,

But he was conflicted.

He couldn't choose between me and her,

so I chose for him.

There is a boy who is perfect for me,

But unfortunately, he doesn't exist.

Challenge
Seven words to make someone fall in love with you.
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DaveK in Romance & Erotica

Worth It

I'll empty

Myself

To make

You whole

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caramelstars in Poetry & Free Verse

worrier

i overthink things

and come up with conclusions

that scares me sometimes.

i am so creative

when it comes to

imagining all the things

that could go wrong.

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YAngeL in Poetry & Free Verse

Considering the Ways that Falling in Love and Falling Down are Exactly the Same

Both happen unexpectedly.

Both can knock the breath out of you.

Both will make you look like an idiot.

Both will mess up your clothing.

Both will disrupt your life.

Both will get you dirty.

Both will leave you bewildered,

Trying to figure out how it happened.

That you went from walking normally

To this broken heap on the ground.

With no warning.

And no cushion to land on.

Certainly no one to help you up.

Didn't even put your hands out to break your fall.

Both could leave you bloody and bruised.

Both could leave you with permanent scars.

Both could potentially kill you.

Or hurt you bad enough you just wish

for death.

When walking on a treacherous path,

even though you may be aware of the danger,

even if you take every possible precaution -

Sooner or later, you're gonna fall.

Better watch your step.

Challenge
Shock me. Whether it be it blood, sex, humor, horror, opinions, fiction or fact; I want to be agog with how dark you can be.
Cover image for post Meet Ira, my Darkside., by another_proser
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another_proser

Meet Ira, my Darkside.

{#satire #darkside #prose #morbidhumor-ish ... wouldn't let me # for some reason but I felt it necessary.}

We all have one, even those who've never met theirs, or felt it take over their body and mind, yet it's there all the same; the capacity for evil. I've been in a shit mood since this morning, more things out of my control, making me feel useless and inconsequential. More inconsiderate people making me want to give into the darkness and forego the woes of my compassion.

I hate on myself because I know I can't/won't kill myself... but I'm not so certain I could stop myself if I unleashed my Darkside, given the name Ira when I was about fifteen. So without further adieu; Ladies and Gents, Meet Ira, my Darkside.

Dark is as dark does you self-loathing cocksucker. Oh wait, you couldn't even do that right could you?

You know what happened then and we're not talking about me. This is your chance to post/publish all the crap you spindle into my brain like a devil on my shoulder. So spill.

I would have about twenty words ago, but you kept typing and we both can't type at the same time you fat-fingering fuckless fucker. I guess I've gotten so used to focusing on you I just can't help myself. You want me to spill

I do.

so I will. I'd kill every single half-sack-son-of-a-bitch who gave us an opportunity if you'd let me. Your mother first, fat fucking victim-bitch who couldn't get past her own childhood trauma to prevent you and yours from having some of your own... Her I would have killed slow, bled her out like a stuck pig while she was hopped up on pain meds and made it look like a suicide. Then I'd have controlled your father with his own anger and made him my bitch for fear of the monster we'd become.

Oh and that little cunt on the school-bus in highschool? You shouldn't have warned your mother, you should have hole-punched her in the neck with a fork and painted the bus red like we said we would. You where a minor then and could have easily played the insanity card. I mean, good intentions or not you did beat a tick riddled possum to death and toss it in the woods behind your house, plucked the head off your broken-winged parakeet like a grape from the vine, the female King Snake--

We're not talking about me remember?

But you're my favorite subject matter. I don't understand why you hold us back. This compassion thing is a racket, it only brings you more misery to feed me. You're heart wills you to help your family but I'd kill them all for hindering your evolution. Stop. Or what? I'll delete this whole post.

Fuck you. Fine. I'll tell them, that while you drive and mutter weak comments like "I'll ram this Oldsmobile up your ass" I plot how hard to push the gas to hit the corner of their bumper just right so they'll spiral into the nearest power-pole-- hoping they don't die so they live the rest of their life suffering and laying blame for their own ass-holishness.

Or what about your Grandmother? How many times could we have pushed her down the stairs and given her something to complain about? You're just being childish. Oh, you want me to expose our thoughts your thoughts Ours sugar, I'm a part of you remember...

Nothing?

Ha.

We see the way people treat people and we see how the ruling class treats the lower classes, the way the world runs on such a fragile system of money and we often think we people deserve every bit of suffering we get. We want to embrace that suffering and explore human limitations. We want to experiment on people the way they experiment on animals. We want to watch some of them burn, helpless to stop it, helpless but to watch in a mirror as their own flesh melts off their bones.

Pump them full of designer drugs, alcohol, and sugar until their systems shut down. Drown them in food coloring and preservatives by the thousands. Electrocute them with their profit geared technology in the millions. Force them to eat the fashions they fawn over.

We want to kill a billion strangers and see what parts of humanity show through because I believe it will bring more death, destruction, cunning enslavement and all out misery to marinade the happiness until it sours. Rem on the other hand holds out hope such an event would unite people in compassion-- false hope because such numbers would only unite them against a common enemy.

Fear and doubt are powerful tools to render the human psyche into playdough.

9-11, a brilliant display of misdirection and manipulation to bend a nation to the will of money. War is a business like any other and with me at the reigns we would make enough to play our own war-games with the lives of so-called innocence. Hm. Children perhaps, like dogs, are just products of their keepers. Then again, any child already imprinted with the foul behaviors of their keepers would be just as tainted, like the monkeys in a cage.. second generation offspring following the culture of it's elders, even to beat another monkey to death for climbing a ladder without permission, without ever knowing why.

.. So ultimately, I'd kill them all, save us. We might miss humanity but it's already left so much to remember it by.

Wait, why do we get to live?

I think with the use of some machinery  we could build little mountains of bodies and watch them burn for days like the devastating asteroids they are. If we die too, this tribute to the cosmos can't happen.

Right.. well, in short ... there you have it.

|| another_proser || 

Cover image for post Break Free and Swim, by abbeyswany
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abbeyswany in Poetry & Free Verse

Break Free and Swim

I feel I'm finally breaking free

There was one more inch of glass to crack

before I could realize

I could break it

The light shined on me

It showed me the way

I broke out of it

Out of the box

Holding me back

There is still water everywhere.

I'm swimming up now

I can almost breathe the air

I'm so close

My hand has touch the air

It has touched the fresh air

Now my nose has followed

and I can somewhat breathe

All because of the light

The light guiding me,

The light showing me the way

I hope I don't get dragged back under

But as for right now

I'm breaking free.

Cover image for post Dust to Dust, by JairoChacon
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JairoChacon in Poetry & Free Verse

Dust to Dust

I'm dust. 

Muddy from tears shed,

Rugged from fit of rage,

Dirty from littered debris,

Hardened from illicit acts, 

Cracking from pounding expectations,

Settling into a smog of solitude.

I'm dust that will turn into sparse ashes, 

traveling with the winded directions of eons.