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therambler666
Currently cultivating my creative space after 20 years of academia.
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Challenge
Write something about trying to move on.
No rules. Enjoy.
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rlove327
63 reads

Limitations

You can lead the horse to water - you can even shove its nose in the water - but sometimes, the horse just drowns.

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Challenge
write the shortest story
Like Hemingway's example, FOR SALE: BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN
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rlove327
141 reads

untitled six-word story

Eighty-seven.

I miss remembering her name.

. . . . . . . . .

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HandsOfFire
53 reads

an unlit star

there's an unlit star

on the end of my fingertips

.

does it flicker?

the wolves are out again,

hunting with noses in the air

.

the shadows lurch toward me

with vine twisting fingernails

wrapping around my wrist

too tight to

did you hear that?

i lost it again

.

there are no stars here,

no earth at all.

just a warped and glimmering ocean,

pulsating and gathering dust

.

the air is sickly sweet, tainted

with rose colored eyelashes,

blinking softly

.

uncurling my fingers,

i see inside

i lost it again

.

.

.

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snivyth3
128 reads

*TRIGGER WARNING*

"I'm here for you."

"You're not alone."

"You can always talk to me."

Lies.

When it's 2:30a.m.

And self- loathing claws its way

up my throat,

I am at my weakest.

Sadness rips its way out my mouth.

In the form of silent tears.

I am alone.

When the blade cuts my skin

And the cuts get deeper

I'm silently begging for help.

But no one is there to save me.

I am alone.

My resentment only multiplies

I grow to hate myself.

My last hope slowly

inches away.

I am alone.

The only real thing is

my tears, and the blood

trickling down my arms.

You say you are there for me,

but you're not.

I am alone.

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Challenge
prophecies are not just for teens.
Write a piece in any form (short story, prose, poetry, etc.) about a prophecy for any age demographic other than teens (who we will define here as 12-18). Inspired by Pinterest :) Tag me so I can read your stuff (and sorry if this was already a thing lol)!
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ihatetulips
26 reads

The end.

Death of the Earth from the drying soil

The old Gods will be strewn upon the rocks and picked apart by crows

Cities caught in the flame become ash and coat the new world in dust

Earths empty veins collapse as a new God suckles her breast from which we too drew the milk of life

The new God arisen and hungry

Ready to devour that which we haven’t picked clean

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Challenge
Describe yourself in a fifteen word sentence
Not separate words, but an entire sentence that is joined :) No language or blasphemy.
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william_calkins in Nonfiction
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Myself

Baby boom TV vid kid raised on cereal boxtop pulp and community college petri dishes.

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prophecies are not just for teens.
Write a piece in any form (short story, prose, poetry, etc.) about a prophecy for any age demographic other than teens (who we will define here as 12-18). Inspired by Pinterest :) Tag me so I can read your stuff (and sorry if this was already a thing lol)!
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AJAY9979
27 reads

Geriatric Lycanthropy

When the moon is full, wrinkled hands will become smooth, and the grey-haired will dance as though those are their original hips.

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snivyth3
117 reads

Pain Inside Me

I keep so much pain

inside myself.

I grasp my anger

and loneliness

and hold it

in my chest.

It has changed me

into something

I never meant to be

It has transformed me

into something

I never meant to be.

It has transformed me

into a person

I do not recgonise.

But I don't know how

to let it go.

They say pain ends

but for me, it just numbs.

Only to come back

With a stronger force.

I don't know how much

more I can take.

Suffering, but pretending

that everything's okay.

I have so much to say,

yet I don't know

how to open up

to you

In a way that

doesn't make our

relationship awkward.

Will you accept me

when I reveal myself?

Or will you leave me

just like everyone else?

...Are you the true friend that I have been looking for?

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Voidkin_Killer
45 reads

Title.

Write.

WRITE WHAT!????

This blank page haunts me!!!

I have nothing-

What am I going to do?

Another skit???

Another joke?

Short story?

POEM????

What?

Why stare at me?

I am at loss of words.

I’ve stared at this paper for too long,

Letting my pen go dry.

Oooo that was good!

That was actually really good-

Oh well...

I’ll think of something.

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snivyth3
136 reads

You Don’t Care

Today I realised

You don't care anymore.

And then I realised,

You probably never did anyway.

And the saddest part of it all

is that you made me believe you did.

You can't spell 'believe' without 'lie'.

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