Stories tagged with "detail"
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{Writing Prompt} Great Opening

This material came from a Grub Street Workshop given by Randy Susan Meyers. It is not my material.
A great opening sho…
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Friends Over [The Stovohobo Inspirer Not-A-Challenge Challenge]

James’ large frightened eyes traveled slowly around the room. The creatures, some sitting on chairs, others reclining on a so…
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Why Because I'm Not Dead
Some days it doesn’t seem like life’s worth living.
My active life is gone.
I’m to young for this to be happening now.
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Disorder? {4}

I felt as though my throat was closing in, being squeezed by the mighty hand of some invisible goliath. Needless to say, I co…
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The Cottage
We pulled up in her VW Beetle, which was red with black dots and resembling a lady bug. Her house appeared very strange from …
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Released

The drop doesn’t fall. Winter is not in the habit of giving. The bead of longing made palpable freezes. It doesn’t scab. It f…
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Insomnia

I walk. I walk and I peer, with eyes watering from the raw cold, at the pinnacles of cruelty and ice that spring from nowhere…