Blog 43 Hello everybody, today we have a piece from Luckie on Writing.com titled Ironic Despair. Paragraph 1 Today was the day. He was going to do it this time. He never understood the phrase ‘enough is enough’ until today. He lies on his back in a soggy cardboard box, scanning his thoughts as he […]
Thomas died young, leaving behind a cherished but poor family. Now, his soul is wandering the vast realms of Death in pursuit of a distant hope. There is a way to escape Death and return to the living, but it is perilous and a single misstep would lead to the eradication of his […]
Blog 42 Hello everybody. Today we have a piece from Wrath.Of.Khan titled The Track Meet. Paragraph 1 Tim Koch lifted his head. Long brown strands of hair that looked lighter in the sun than they really were framed his oval face. His hips popped up in one swift motion. Thumb, index, and middle fingers dug […]
Blog 41 Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled Oneka by FifthWood on Wrting.com. Paragraph 1 Lady Tokugawa Tsuruhime offered the tea bowl to her husband with as much of a bow as she could handle, being eight months pregnant with their first baby. Returning the bow, Lord Tokugawa Ogimaru accepted the tea bowl. […]
Blog 40 Hello everybody, today we have a sci-fi piece titled For Better or for Words by Melisscious on Writing.com. Paragraph 1 The smoke spiraled up from my lips and hotboxed the roof of my umbrella before creeping out to meet the raindrops. The rain always fell in winter. If you mentioned it you’d hear […]
Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled Diorama Hints from PureSciFiPlus on Writing.com. Paragraph 1 A one-inch female figurine with a white top and a light blue skirt is placed next to the foot of the bed. As the hand is removed from it the head snaps back. Several drops of what appears to […]
Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled stuck by Julian Lee on Writing.com. Paragraph 1 Turned out the shortcut was longer than it had appeared on the map. Or, at least, it felt that way. Probably because the narrow road offered many twists and turns, so the going was slow. That, and the tired […]
Hello everybody, Today we have a piece from Roesavlon on DeviantArt with a piece titled The Wrong Destiny. I imagine it’s the untold history of how the whole of Delphi got drunk and went on a crazy bender through Greece. Paragraph 1 If you’re reading this now, that means my plan has worked. In that case, […]
Blog 36 Today we have a piece titled The Journey of a Hero by Officialkat14. (Though there are some shenanigans afoot as this was uploaded to a friend’s account.) Paragraph 1 No matter where you look, you always see the same types of people. You have the outcasts, the wealthy, the peacemakers, the peacebreakers, and the in-between, who […]
Hello everybody, today we have a piece from Myles Abroad on Writing.com. It is titled Foresight, and will no doubt include floating glass spheres of mystical origin. Paragraph 1 Oven-like heat saturated each breath. My eyes fluttered open, unease nagging until Mac’s steady, sleeping rhythm soothed me. Dawn light pooled shadows on his gaunt, worry-lined face […]
Blog 34 Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled One foot Forward by Keaton Cooper. A remote corner on the private Arcadia Island, north of the San Juans, is host to a most peculiar facility–a place whose true purpose remains largely unknown to locals on surrounding islands and authorities alike. It is here our sordid tale […]
Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled Black Rose by Istvan Janos on Writing.com. Paragraph 1 “We interrupt this program with breaking news. There has been another homicide on the east side of Grand Rapids. Police say it’s probably another link in the chain of homicides that occurred previously over the past week. As soon as […]
Hello everybody, today we have a piece titled ‘Footprints’ by Sorji is Editing the Words on Writing.com. Paragraph 1 A snowflake fell on the sidewalk. Then another landed in the grass. Some landed on the car and on the branches of the tree in the front yard. I know because I had been watching when […]
Today we have a piece titled ‘Bitter’ by Swordpen on Writing.com Paragraph 1&2 “Here ya go pal.” The bartender wore a smug grin as he placed the Old Fashioned in front of me with all the poise of a drunken baboon. The kid was young, might not even be old enough to drink the swill he’s […]
Blog 30 Today, we have a recurring author, Octavius from Writing.com with a piece titled ‘Karma.’ It’s been six months since Evin transferred here for work. He’s been working hard to collect enough credits for a date at the resort on Tower 7. We’ve discussed opening paragraphs before and this is a good opportunity to […]