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A Car Accident [Trigger Warning: Violence]
Describe a very brutal car accident. Leave no details out about the car and how it begins, to how it comes to its new state of being. If there's gore or anything about the driver you want to include, please include a trigger warning [TW] at the top of the post in the title, but other than that. It's a free for all. Let's see how good you can get at describing a car accident. Any type. Small fender bender or a large, horrific accident... Anything and it's good to also give a recount of the driver's experience and thoughts, whether they walk out or not.
Ends April 29, 2023 • 3 Entries • Created by DianaHForst in Horror & Thriller
kaleidoscope
Your interpretation…poetry only.
Ends April 14, 2023 • 21 Entries • Created by Finder in Poetry & Free Verse
Word Play: April NOT WEATHER
Use the following 12 words: funnel, cloud, scattered, shower, thunder, bolt, flood, warning, storm, threat, rain, drop but entries CANNOT REFER TO WEATHER IN ANY WAY! Format of your choice. 300 word MAX.
Ends April 14, 2023 • 15 Entries • Created by Finder
Pain
write something that expresses emotions like (pain, sadness, anxiety, scarred, Happy, nevous.)
Ends April 23, 2023 • 43 Entries • Created by alexripple in Stream of Consciousness
Love is Just the Instinct of Sex - Schopenhauer
Ever been cheated on? Did your partner walk out on you with no explanation? Was there no mojo in your relationship so you opted to leave, but realized way too late that it was your own damn fault? I’d like to say a broken heart feels like the end of the world, but it really isn’t after you have a couple of them. I don’t care if she pooped gold, or the way he smiled sent those butterflies on a shooting spree in your stomach. I don’t even care if they found their identity in middle school, and transformed into a new bionic AI gender by thirty, leading a cutting edge global company that specializes in environmental activism, and combating the military industrial complex. Just tell me, what is YOUR best way to get over someone, and move on with your life. Cheers!
Ends April 21, 2023 • 8 Entries • Created by fudo
“Understanding others is knowledge, understanding oneself is enlightenment” - Tao Te Ching
Your take, your format. 300 word MAX.
Ends April 14, 2023 • 8 Entries • Created by Finder in Stream of Consciousness
Poetry with Symbolism - Metaphors of Dissociation
Write a poem [any type] about dissociation. Try to use abstract ideas, concepts and details to give a sense of depth on how it affects you or the person feeling it.
Ends April 22, 2023 • 9 Entries • Created by DianaHForst in Poetry & Free Verse
The Boy Who Never Was
Re-imagine Peter Pan and the Lost Boys any way you please
Ends April 30, 2023 • 2 Entries • Created by brothersgraham in Fiction
Cisgender
Your philosophy…essay format only. 300 word MAX
Ends April 14, 2023 • 4 Entries • Created by Finder in Philosophy
What Food Are You?
If you were a food what would you be? Describe yourself as an ingredient or an entire meal in detail. Only you will know how you taste. Explain you're reasons for why you are that food and tell us about yourself. Maybe you whisk up a secret or perhaps you open the fridge of your life. You may just want to peel back the layers of a unique tick that makes you, you. What you serve to us, write it in the form of a delicacy, a dessert, a savory snack, or pick something blander like a potato. Bonus points for more than one course, and partial bonuses for each side dish. Any form is welcome. 500 Word MAX. Happy Writing!
Ends April 17, 2023 • 17 Entries • Created by ChrisSadhill
Lost
When you're feeling lost, where do you go?
Ends April 16, 2023 • 39 Entries • Created by akitoyu in Poetry & Free Verse
Ridiculous Rhyming
Inspired by my favorite Dr. Seuss book, Fox in Socks. Let me see your most ridiculous compilation of rhyming words. Random and senseless. Make my tongue twist!
Ends April 15, 2023 • 8 Entries • Created by Ash2ash
A Meal that Changed Your Life
Write a short piece about a meal that changed your life. Whether it be for the indulgence/ enjoyment of the meal or the content of the conversation. Can be fiction, but make me believe it's real. All genres welcome, however, your piece must center around actual food (I'm looking at you romance/erotica writers). Give me gritty, give me giddy, give me happy, sad, and everything in between, but most of all...give me food.
Ends April 24, 2023 • 8 Entries • Created by thePearl
The Voice of your Mind
“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.” –Michael A. Singer Prose, poem or essay, word limit 500.
Ends April 7, 2023 • 10 Entries • Created by Uschibear in Stream of Consciousness
horror poems
any kind of poetry style, just scare me :)
Ends April 7, 2023 • 15 Entries • Created by sushi_trash in Horror & Thriller
Imposter Topics: Spasmodic Whistler's Special Edition, P.O. box 86.5
Oh yes! It's time. What time you ask? Time for a meddlingly troublesome tigress to pilfer style yet again from the wonderaciously inspirationicious @batmaninwuhan to bring you these egregiously inferior topics of repulsively ravishing randomness! The rules are the same as always: there are none. Read on at your own peril ! ..... ...... .... ..... .... still here? That's what I like to see! Oh my! so many vehemently vivacious volunteers! What class!.... It is my unfortunate duty to inform you at this juncture, that if you are forthwith inclined, even slightly, by any measure of the trusty inclinometer whatsoever, you will be hereby undertaking a solemn oath to participate in a quest of the most noble and monstrous proportions imaginable; to write upon one, some, all, or none of the following random topics!!! ... So, without further ado, and with very little unduly noted snottery, the topics are ......... 1) intricate delicacies of nipple pinching, and other desirable taboos, as cited from an old fashioned precoital handbook.
2) Handy handmaidens in the sacred land of candy. 3) laundromatting for beginners: chapter one: spontaneous lactation prophylaxis. 4)
inconveniently timed gastronomic excitability. 5)
romantic exacerbation during the life of a well-meaning entomologist. 6) Friday I'm in glove. 7)
An immaculately detailed reporting on the contents of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's pockets on an average winter evening.
8)
the alleged scarcity of inconceivable conceptions.
9) nitpicky pickpocketing.
9.5) An overzealous expectancy for explanatory expletives.
10) O, the intolerable sanity of it all! it's enough to drive a'body mad.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~well that's that. Have mercy, Have sense, Have heart, Have placatable pets, but most importantly... Have at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"the sky is blue and all the leaves are green. My heart is full as a baked poe-tay-ta! I think I know precisely what I mean, when I say it's a shpadoinkle daaay..."
Ends April 27, 2023 • 4 Entries • Created by EstherFlowers1
Letter to me
Music and writing go together for me. I love lyrics that move me and motivate me. Being a Brad Paisely fan, I hear his song "Letter to me" often and I think, what would I want my younger self to know? Write yourself a letter as if you could send it back in time with the knowledge you have now and tell your youthful self what you needed to hear. Take it any direction you want and have fun with it! But remember to be kind to yourself. We all have an inner child that is still relying on it!
Ends April 21, 2023 • 14 Entries • Created by Ash2ash
Water, wind and sea
Write about finding a merfish (a mermaid) on the beach, can be any format, just try to bring out your childhood imagination. It can be fantasy or scary, whatever you want!
Ends April 26, 2023 • 5 Entries • Created by adiii_starry
The Priest-less Confessional
A place to air your grievances with yourself. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose. Pride or attrition. Anything goes.
Ends April 16, 2023 • 22 Entries • Created by EstherFlowers1
Redemption for the Unredeemable
Write a piece that shows a character going through the realization how far they have fallen and what they have to do to redeem themselves. The person in question would have to be someone who is either the villain or a far fallen hero and the things in which they're seeking redemption from would have to be so horrible that even they can't stomach their own actions knowing that they've turned themselves around now.
Ends April 15, 2023 • 2 Entries • Created by DianaHForst in Fiction