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The Prose Masquerade Think about what monster or creature you would most enjoy emulating if you were forced to become it for the rest of your life. (You can't say a businessman is a monster and take the easy route out). Within the realms of ghouls, ghosts, vampires, centaurs, etc., pick your poison, and craft something that shows how you would cope at your worst, your best, in your newfound existence of monstrosity. Let the words run. The winner gets a trick or treat box from me.
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Lynk in Poetry & Free Verse

Never Cry, Wolfe

100 years in each backwoods step

We enter white wooden door, into classic cabin,

Cynically, “jagetit?”—rage, "Yes!"—

In pulse rubicund skies, elongate the only window

Suck down these anecdotes immediately

We know in our deepest deepest hearts this is the last hope

Creep sneering, .. I breathe lighter and lighter,

Arrest flaring nostrils approaching

Swallowing chests until the last bit slinks, throats

Claw crawling cure, fleeting splays grind,

“What's wrong..”—“What's Wrong!?!"—

Silver elixir fails, hairs sliver out

And grinning reflection, beast emerges.

"well, C’mon RedWolf! You are nothing without me.”

Fanged in howls ricochet

As shatters of the ruddy evening

And the window, just in pieces

Double-swift 100 steps back through the woods