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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jul 11, 2021 9:56:47 GMT -6
This Weeks Prompt: Silence
The Rolling Weekly Rules can be found in a sticky in this same forum. Entries must be 100 words, no more, no less. Entries can be posted below. Entries must be posted by July 17th by midnight PST. Weekly Challenge Rules:- No critiquing. Please refrain from giving feedback, as these challenges are to inspire creativity.
- Positive Enthusiasm is welcome! But save it for when Voting has started.
- CAN NOT vote for your own entry, and doing so will disqualify your submission.
- HAVE FUN!
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Post by pelwrath on Jul 14, 2021 11:10:48 GMT -6
The Challenge of the Beast
The challenge of writing, the here and now,
Harkens back to the call, for heroes all.
The beast is silent, a rampaging destructor.
Destroyer of hopes, consumer of dreams.
Black is the inky heart, written over white page.
The challenge is exacerbated by desires, some of envy, others of merit.
Monstrous challenges, face nightly brothers of the quill.
Forms from times of Roman or that of couriers new.
Fortuna favors talent; are others just scribes?
The Gifted become great, like bard or laureate.
Does this make them more or us less?
That depends, how you look at beast and contend.
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Post by RAVENEYE on Jul 16, 2021 12:20:29 GMT -6
Soundproof
Silence is the sound I can’t tune out. It is endless, this drone of nothingness. It pounds against my ears, swaddles my head in a numbing fist. The natural voice of the void through which I float, me and my broken shuttle. Though I talk to myself to loosen its grip, it screams without syllables, without ceasing, and swallows my words. Its hunger, incomprehensibly vast.
I thought, perhaps, the darkness or the isolation or the foreknowledge of my inevitable end would be the splinter that drove me mad. No.
Silence is the leviathan that will devour me from the inside.
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Post by FoxxGlove on Jul 17, 2021 17:08:28 GMT -6
To Pierce The Veil
Seasons come and go. Summer Solstice. Winter Solstice. I've lost track of time. The pile driver and jackhammer assault my ears with relentless pounding. I exist vicariously through memories not necessarily my own.
One day, I will escape this torment. Embrace the darkness beyond the curtain where all is tranquil and silence reigns.
The beings dressed in white who lurk in corners say I've already transcended and there is no peace on the other side. That I should be aware of that since I'm already there.
They are wrong.
I know they are wrong.
Please tell me they are wrong.
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jul 18, 2021 9:32:56 GMT -6
Poll is up! Good luck contestants!
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jul 25, 2021 10:35:21 GMT -6
RAVENEYE clinches the win! Congrats, and have an extra 15 easy points!
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Post by RAVENEYE on Jul 25, 2021 18:44:19 GMT -6
 Wow, what? Yay!!!! Thanks!
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