Challenge
Tell me something new
I want to read your individual take on anything BUT telling it in a way I've never heard before - not in books, magazines, movies, tv, films, video games, advertising, social media, quotations, cliches, school. Tell me something new. I'm not looking for experimental formats just simple solid writing from your individual POV and vocabulary. It can be fiction, non-fiction, a poem or prose - no rhyming. 250 word limit.
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Getting Healthy
The winter air bites
the skin on my face;
a kinetic high.
Blood pumps asthmatically to my
hamstrings and calves
as if injected with heroin.
My thumbs sit pursed between my
index and middles
like cigarettes.
Thick mucus coagulates in my
throat and sinuses
as if mixed with cocaine.
Ascending the hill
my organs burn
as if drowned in spirits.
I run on — my house shimmering
at the end of the street
like a first beer.