“All I can see is fire. I can almost feel the heat, like it’s glowing off my cheeks. I’ve been there before. Like a place from my childhood, but it’s all on fire now. The flames keep growing in my eyes and it burns. It’s getting hotter and hotter and that’s when I wake up.” …
Describe your mother
If I were to describe my mom, I would probably say she is the best. And I wish I could give you a better description but that’s really all there is to it. She’s the best hugger, the best cuddler, the best chef, and the best inspiration. She has the best smile, the best laugh, …
What you ate for breakfast
We call it an egg toasty thing in my family but I think if you go to Cracker Barrel, they have it under the name Bird in a Basket. It's a strange name but after a bit of thought I discovered the name to be completely logical. If the egg were to hatch it would …
Write a scene in which the protagonist is wrongly accused of conspiring to cause a big accident.
“I wasn’t even there that night. Well okay I was, but not for the whole time. Not for the part of the accident anyway. I was in a fight, you see, with my girlfriend. And she was there, at the party. So naturally I had to go over there because, you know, it wasn’t …
You are a 21-year-old. Write a love letter to your girlfriend.
My Dear, Assume this to be the first of many letters as I attempt to put into words all I feel for you. It's strange really to experience an emotion that is truly just a feeling. It is something you feel and that is all. There is no explanation, no words, no comparatives, but nevertheless, …
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Choose how you will die
I’d like to die before I turn 100. The year I turn 100 it will be 2093 and that is cutting it just a little too close to the year 2100. The way I imagine the year 2100 is very similar to the way Ray Bradbury pictured the future in his book Fahrenheit 451, and …
Go to the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day web site, and write a story based on that word.
March 18- Fetter: a chain or shackle for the feet, something that confines: restraint I notice my hands first. They are white. I am outside. The temperature, I estimate, is below freezing and it’s some time close to morning. I cough once and spit out a thick blood-filled saliva. I roll over onto my back …
You are a thirteen-year-old. Write a love letter to your boyfriend.
Dear Boyfriend, I think you’re really cute. Whenever I see you, I get butterflies in my stomach and my hands start to shake a little. You make me laugh and I love how much we have in common. I could listen to Mayday Parade with you all day. What I like most about you are …
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Write a song.
DOING OKAY I think I’m doing much better The signs on the streets Look clearer now It's a brighter kind of day And everything seems To be going just right For the first time I’m doing okay I’m doing all right And I’ll throw the pills To the floor I don’t need them anymore I’m …
Do you have a superstition? What is it, why do you have it, and how do you follow it?
I absolutely have to make a wish before blowing a fallen eyelash off my finger. It’s the only “make-a-wish” superstition that I still think my wishes would come true. When the clock turns 11:11, I don’t even bother. Blowing out the birthday candles, I’ve outgrown that one.....sadly. But I still hang on to those eyelash …
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