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Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
Six Sentence Story #22 | Prompt Word: INTEREST
Yet again, a week has passed and it's time for a new six-sentence story. This week I wrote something a bit different from my usual entries, and it’s also the first week in a while that I have been able to rest. Yay. The blog hop itself is hosted by GirlieOnTheEdge. Be sure to check out the other entries at the link-up as well; there are some wonderful writers there. Six Sentence Story #22 Quen sat on the bathroom floor, staring at the pregnancy test in her trembling hands — for six years she had tried to conceive: hormonal treatments, a failed round of IVF, and two miscarriages. All those treatments and failures had eventually made her give up on the dream; honestly speaking, she didn't even know if being a mother was truly her dream at all, or if it was simply what she felt she had to...
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Ten Thing of Thankful #3 | Creativity, Community & Semester’s End
This week went by so fast I didn’t even think of the ten thing of thankful blog hop while living through it. It felt as if I blinked, and it was already gone. The other hoppers’ posts of the week can be read here. Be sure to check them out at this blog hop is the most positive vibes one I have found in a long time. Ten Thing of Thankful #3 First—I have to once again bring up the community of the Six-Sentence blog hoppers. As a writer, I always felt I was far too different to truly fit in, but the more I write, the more I begin to see my own evolution. Writing is a skill, yes—but also a way to stay creative, and that creative part of me is something that keeps me going through the hectic...
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Six Sentence Story #3 | Prompt Word: KEY
It was as if he was venturing into the halls of an old abandoned building and as he stood there on the door frame, clutching a key in his sweaty palms, he couldn’t help but be perplexed at the fact that anyone could ever show such neglect to something so majestic.
Six Sentence Story #2 | Prompt Word: EDGE
“Just leave, you are not wanted or needed around here.”
These words haunt me in my dreams to this day, as vividly and loudly as cruelly as they were, and I can still see their faces clearly or hear the piercing laughter as I was laying on the floor with my peers forming a ritual circle around me while throwing words shaped like daggers into my flesh- sometimes I am even afraid to fall asleep, as in my 30ties I still relive the moment like a veteran of war.
Six Sentence Story #1 | Prompt word: FLUID
“You are a weird one, aren’t you?”
His words echoed in my brain as I had been decrypted and my secrets, they flung from the pages onto which I had been painting my love for him – with droplets of the sweetest words that I had accumulated over the years.