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dctezcan
"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how!" "Be the reason someone smiles today!"
The biggest hole in my life...
...was left by whom? Or by what? Poetry or prose.
Ends July 29, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The door
Your character wakes up in the middle of the night. They heard something. When they open their eyes, there is a door in the middle of their room. A voice says "if you open the door, it will take you to any time you wish..." What adventure awaits? Is there a catch? Tell us the story. Prose, please.
Ended July 24, 2024 • 7 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Slaying monsters
"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome." Margaret Atwood
Poetry or prose.
Ended July 22, 2024 • 10 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"I am I, and I wish I weren't."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932). Poetry or Prose.
Ended July 19, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Hidden Things
"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Tell me a story... poetry or prose.
Ended July 15, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Loved or understood?
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."George Orwell, 1984
Prose or poetry.
Ended July 14, 2024 • 11 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Nostalgia v Anger
Both can be powerful forces. Which is more dangerous? Why? Prose, please.
Ended July 8, 2024 • 11 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The game of life
Everyone has a public life, a private life and a secret life. Poetry or prose.
Ended July 7, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Alone
"Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym." (Stephen King) Prose or poetry.
Ended July 2, 2024 • 13 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"Stars and shadows ain't good to see by." Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Whatever that means to you - poetry or prose.
Ended June 30, 2024 • 8 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." (Dr. Seuss) Poetry or prose.
Ended June 21, 2024 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The phoenix rises
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran
"I’ve died a thousand deaths, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, and purer than before. From the midst of destruction, I became the creator of myself. From the midst of darkness, I became my own source of light.” — Cristen Rodgers
Wherever it takes you...
Ended June 15, 2024 • 16 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Three can keep a secret...if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin
Prose, please.
Ended June 7, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre
Your thoughts?
Ended June 2, 2024 • 16 Entries • Created by dctezcan
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss
Wherever it takes you.
Ended May 31, 2024 • 4 Entries • Created by dctezcan
The ghost within me
Imagine a young child who seems to be remembering a previous life - describing places they have never been, people they have never met, sometimes using words or phrases that seem beyond their vocabulary.
Write their story.
Ended May 13, 2024 • 9 Entries • Created by dctezcan
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). Prose or poetry.
Ended March 28, 2024 • 5 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Clocks slay time
"Clocks slay time...time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. " William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ended March 27, 2024 • 6 Entries • Created by dctezcan
Even a well-meaning lie can sometimes cause incalculable harm.
Prose or poetry
Ended March 25, 2024 • 3 Entries • Created by dctezcan