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Experiencing the Wait
I often think about how much time we spend waiting vs experiencing. Tell me about your experience with the wait. Any genre, any style. Winner receives adoration and praise. Between 15-100 words.
StormAtSea
• 10 reads

The promotion that never came

12 long years, waiting for the next promotion.

The ‘friendly’ comment I heard most often “You don’t mean that? 12 years? Why are you still here?” Or rather what is wrong with you?

And to be honest, I didn’t know.

But what I also didn’t know was what I gained in those 12 long years.

A mature attitude, patience, a can-do attitude that would help me survive in the jungle of the next job.

What did come was a self-belief thicker than a bear’s skin.

What did come was knowledge that helped me ace the odds in the next job.

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Challenge
Insomniac Jots
A paltry spot to place one of those niggling tidbits which came un-asked-for in the dead of night. Fiction, non fiction, poetry, prose, self, contradiction... Anything goes.
StormAtSea
• 25 reads

A long night ahead

The meeting was secretly heralded as the fight of giants. A fight to the finish. One in which I was to be crucified.

You came with a full force, a team of loyalists, on whose behalf you would slay me.

There you sat, less than a foot away from me, surrounded by your cheerleaders. There was I, a paltry team of two to support me, neither of whom I could count on. You were the clear winner. Even before it started.

And yet, here I am. Meeting over, unharmed. Or so it seems.

You didn't raise a finger of accusation. I stared in surprise at you, not more than a foot away. Your polished manner didn't betray the contempt you have always shown me in the past. Your eyes were carefully neutral, your manner painstakingly convivial.

I didn't get it. Wasn't this supposed to be a fight to the finish? Why then did you let me go?

Is that why I have lain awake night after night since then? Grateful to have been spared and wondering why? If so, why am I not analysing the meeting more thoroughly for clues and hidden moves? Knowing what I know of you, a suave politician, who has it in for me.

Instead, night after night since then, all that I can see is the handsome face so close to mine that day. The perfectly sculpted nose, the lips that I almost reached out to explore with the tips of my fingers. The way your eyes wandered to the hoops in my ears. The way you mastered your people's dissent against me with ease.

How did a meeting of clashes turned into nights of longing?

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Challenge
Poetry to the Max
Write about a time you have felt alone, but make it poetry. Must less than or equal too 50 words.
StormAtSea in Poetry & Free Verse
• 17 reads

We made a pact,

You and I,

We'd always see eye to eye.

Until the day you looked up high

And used me as a stepping stone to reach for the sky.

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Challenge
help answer one of philosophy's greatest questions: is there a word that could convay NO emotional reaction or meaning?
seek, if there could be a word that has no emotional meaning to either or both speaker or receiver?
StormAtSea
• 25 reads

How about ..

...Maybe? It doesn't convey any emotion or meaning or commitment. Not to say it won't evoke a reaction...

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Challenge
What does it mean to experience heartbreak?
Write what heartbreak is to you in 1 sentence. Doesn’t matter how long said sentence is but stick to 1 nevertheless . Can write in poetry or prose whatever medium works for you!
StormAtSea in Stream of Consciousness
• 11 reads

The fate of my rose

Heartbreak is ...That sinking feeling as I watch my Valentine's rose get crushed between them as she kisses her beau

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Challenge
ABCs
Write a story where the words are in alphabetical order. Not only that, piece must be 26 words long. Start with a word that starts with A, and end with a word that starts with Z. Good luck!
StormAtSea
• 37 reads

ABCD

Always be careful during egg-laying for generally hens in jeopardy kick like mad, needing overall peaceful quiet recreation, since they ultimately view with xenophobia yelling zealots.

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Challenge
A love story in five sentences.
StormAtSea in Romance & Erotica
• 97 reads

Love

She sat at the table, head in her hands, the tears flowing freely.

She couldn’t believe the words she had just spoken, shards of glass that must have pierced his fragile shell.

Much later, she resolutely set off for the café, where she found him as she knew she would, staring blankly at nothing.

After a while, her palm crept out to cover his hand.

His palm turned into hers, their fingers instinctively fitting together, as he looked at her, the hurt fighting the love.

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Challenge
Something beautiful in thirty words
Keep it clean!
StormAtSea
• 15 reads

Forgiveness

People will lie, people will cheat, people will fail you. Love them anyway. For only if you forgive others can you find the space in your heart to love yourself.

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Challenge
If we were having coffee
Every paragraph needs to start with these words. Or every stanza of your poem. I would prefer prose for this one. I'm entering this one as an example.
StormAtSea
• 30 reads

Relationship with coffee

If we were having coffee together, you could have seen the love overflowing from my eyes

A voice call cannot capture the subtlety

Nor a video call the intensity.

If we were having coffee together, your optimism, your good nature would have lifted me

From the grey that is increasingly enveloping my core

Bringing my gentler, happier self to the fore.

If we were having coffee together,

I would never have known long-distance relationships can survive only with an occasional coffee together.

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Challenge
need help: how do you find passion?
is the feeling of lacking passion normal? for the longest time i just feel so lost because i'm not really passionate about anything. i just try to do what other people are passionate about and end up giving up after a short period of time due to my lack of interest:(
StormAtSea
• 26 reads

The search for Passion

You don’t find Passion, really.

Passion finds you, rarely the other way around.

You keep trying though until you reach something that ignites the fire.

And if the flame doesn’t catch, not to worry. Comfort created from routine can also be a pleasing alternate.

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