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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Jul 25, 2021 10:37:04 GMT -6
This Weeks Prompt: Bubbles
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 31st 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 Alatariel on Jul 25, 2021 13:06:17 GMT -6
Styx and Stones
Mother taught, "If you fall into the river, follow the bubbles to the surface or be lost forever." She stitched a gold coin into my clothing "just in case". Knowing one day I would fall. Disembodied voices beg me to dive into the sapphire waters. The torrent glows with the light of trapped souls.
"Only you, daughter of Hades, can save us," they implore. "Free us!"
Mother says they lie. “They earned their fate long ago.”
But I see a face through the glassy waves. My reflection? No. She screams, "Sister, please!" And I know. The one lying was Mother.
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Post by pelwrath on Jul 25, 2021 19:21:18 GMT -6
A Midwinter Rendezvous
How I miss igniting your fire,
turning your knobs.
Increasing the heat you radiate,
only makes me salivate.
The Winter Wizard's cursed storms
had you buried at the tail end of the cave.
I was unable to breach
the wall of obstacles.
Warm cover for cold nights protection
Unfortunately, didn’t prevent formation of rusts stubble
Squeaky clean soon will be, with foaming bubbles
Loves blue flame
makes the juices sizzle
and melts the icy dame
You ask if I feel guilty,
it’s nothing egregious for me to get over.
I’ll get us both cleaned up
before the family gets home.
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Post by FoxxGlove on Jul 25, 2021 21:14:09 GMT -6
Shattered
Since the beginning of recorded history, or maybe even before, the bubble had floated, unnoticed and unseen. A sphere of exquisite reflective rainbows, no living thing had ever remarked upon its beauty or marveled at its elegance. But the bubble paid this no mind. It was desirous of neither flattery nor acceptance.
When it finally made its descent, playfully toying with gravity, it was gracious in defeat.
Contact, airy light with unyielding ground, obliterated the fragile arrangement, leaving naught behind.
And when the time of siesta was over, there was no trace. Nothing remained.
The delicate daydream died as it had lived.
In obscurity.
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Post by RAVENEYE on Jul 27, 2021 13:44:22 GMT -6
Leviathan
She had always considered water flimsy, delicate, insubstantial. But the water was thick as syrup in her nostrils, a brutal fist in the back of her throat. Its touch in her lungs burned like fire. The weight of the water’s body pressed her to the mud. Her fists pummeled the river. The current mocked her, roaring. Its arms rolled her about, a leviathan churning her in a death-roll. At last, it spit her out.
She circled in a slow eddy. Bubbles rose from her mouth. Outside herself, she watched them wobble to the surface and burst. Releasing her final breath.
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Aug 1, 2021 9:17:37 GMT -6
Poll is up! Thanks all, and good luck!
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Aug 8, 2021 13:05:47 GMT -6
The votes are in, and Alatariel takes the win! Congrats, and have an extra 15 easy points for the victory  |
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Post by Alatariel on Aug 8, 2021 23:38:10 GMT -6
Cool thanks for voting for me!
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Post by FoxxGlove on Aug 9, 2021 1:08:34 GMT -6
Cool thanks for voting for me! Cream always rises to the top.  |
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Post by Alatariel on Aug 9, 2021 14:49:49 GMT -6
Cool thanks for voting for me! Cream always rises to the top.  Aw shucks, that's incredibly kind of you. |
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Post by pelwrath on Aug 9, 2021 15:39:26 GMT -6
Excellent story and no more poems about grills.
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