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...a thirty word story about noncreatives suppressing creatives...
Ended March 14, 2016 • 35 Entries • Created by A
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Cover image for post Slashed Thoughts, by sandflea68
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sandflea68 in Fiction
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Slashed Thoughts

You stomped on me

slashed thoughts to pieces

flung words in the air

shattered passions

no grasp of colors

you prefer to reside

in black and grays

dullness of soul.

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A in Fiction
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...blinded 

by their 

greedgoggles, they perceived 

true creativity as a 

weed and not as its 

rightful flower, and proceeded to snip 

away at all the beauty their garden 

had 

birthed...

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Rgolds in Fiction
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I used to paint

Until you said my acrylics smelled

I used to dream

Until you said I should be happy

I used to write

And now I am again.

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ISO in Fiction
216 reads

To Save Time

My father held out his hand and, like collected pebbles, I dropped every dream, every drawing, every dance class into his palm just to demonstrate what I might have become.

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Tevshko in Fiction
206 reads

Don't write, don't draw, don't sing, don't perform. 

Someone will always be better, and it won't make you money.

Get a job. 

Wake up.

I'm Poor.

I'm Creative. 

I'm Awake.

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...a thirty word story about noncreatives suppressing creatives...
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AllanOlney in Fiction
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Conservation of Matter

The homeless man awoke to men stomping his painted figurines.

“Why are they doing that, Mommy?”

“They think it’s part of him”

“Is it?”

“No, now it’s part of them”

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Sadieee28 in Fiction
205 reads

Dreamer

 Told I had to go to college, for me it was just useless knowledge.

I told ma I don't want to be a thinker, I want to be a dreamer.

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Cozzette in Fiction
305 reads

Slammed

"Black people don't write about butterflies, yellow hearts and moons.

We got real sh*t to deal with!"

Were the next words

spoken on the mic

after my last piece.

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DocWatson in Fiction
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Moats and Cantaloupes

I hear these motherfuckers discuss art and books. I don't need that shit! I'd rather build a moat, keep the world out, and fuck a cantaloupe when I get horny!  

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type_omega in Fiction
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thought assassins

tasteless faceless mindless shadows

taking things they do not value

should they see a spark ignite

they fight the ember

snuff the light

it will not stop

this endless blight

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