Written for the CWC, Challenge 3
Challenge prompts: Romance/computer lab/glowstick
Synopsis: All he wished for was a spark of brilliance from one of his students. She had him at Chomsky

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NYC Midnight Creative Writing Challenge, Round I Challenge 2
Genre: Ghost Story
Location: Circus
Object: Horseshoe

Title: Marche des Damnés
Synopsis: Something is making the tightrope walkers quit the Cirque du Monstres. Frieda is about to find out firsthand just what it is.
Notes: I really liked the plot I came up with, but my execution fell flat; I ( Read more... )

I'm doing a creative writing challenge over at NYC Midnight. We're supposed to write a 1,000 words or less story based on a genre, location and object provided. On the first round I got historical fiction (genre), photo shoot (location) and a corkscrew (object). This is what I came up with. Keep in mind we only had two days to write the story.

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Eternal Life

"He was on his back, he was singing.

And I think he had that thought "I hope this second will last forever". And it did"

- Penny Arcade on Jeff Buckley's death

For Jeff Buckley

May 1998

The waves swallowed him whole that night. He never even saw the boat.

They were down at the river, him and Keith. In one of those spur-of ( Read more... )