Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week #7 - In no more than 1500 words, use this sentence to inspire your piece: “...that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since –until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.” - (Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov) Prose will choose the winner based on: fire, form, and creative edge. Bookmarks and shares will be taken into consideration, but won’t decide the winner solely. $100 prize.
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...that little girl with her seaside limbs
and ardent tongue
haunted me ever since
–
until at last,
twenty-four years later,
I broke her spell
by incarnating her in another.”
-
(Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov)
& She Like a Mother
Introduced me To Heather
a Runner
of Back Alleys & Clip Joints
All Dark Eyes & Gin Soaked Thighs
I Let Her Lead me Down That Hall
& Many More
In Love With the Waste That Became my Life
The Knife
& Impossible Heists
Were the Dreams I Would Cling To
As the Sodden Sheets
Muffled Our Screams
Mad Dogs
Who Bite
Burning Way
To Bright
Mesmerized
By
the Light
Would we
Find
Death
To Night
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