Tag: Writing
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Candlelight
The bright light from the flame attracts me. It cuts through the dark shadows with a blinding ease. As the wind outside echoes its eerie whisper, the flame quietly sings along. There are shapes in the shadows, dancing to the flame’s hypnotic call. The shadow-dwellers seem to giggle as they stretch and reach out, elongated…
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City Limits
I don’t live in a city.I have no limits.The sky isn’t the limit, either.When I can reach for the stars.The water?Nothing is out of my depth. I can dive deep, as far as I want to go. Even further. Down the rabbit hole.Up above cloud nine.Just picture it.No city.No limits.
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The Name’s Nutmeg
Nutmeg Dolnoon was alone in the saloon; the day had been hot, the hours, long. She leant against the bar as she noticed the tall shadowy figure standing just inside the double doors. She reached inside her pocket, finding her small pistol missing. Sensing everything to be at stake, she gained leverage from the bar…
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The Unicorn Challenge: Mystical Marjory Tour
‘Do you know, Ognar,’ Myrtle gazed dreamily out of the living room window, ‘I was just about to say we should take ourselves off on holiday again… and then I stopped myself.’ ‘Why’s that then, my delicious pomegranate?’ Ognar put down his newspaper. ‘I’ve just remembered our Marjory’s last trip. She’d gone to somewhere Frenchy,…
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May the Fourth
Posted for Six Sentence Stories where Denise’s prompt word for this week is Market. I’m so far from home it’s untrue… I could be galaxies away for all I know… that’ll teach me for buying a cheap ticket from that dodgy Deadstar Travel Agent in Han’s Market. ‘Only one kidobe,’ the woman with the plaited…
The Mansionic Perspective 