15 March Drabblefest
(First off, I'm sorry I'm posting these so late in the day! It's been a long, frankly horrible Monday, and I also might have maybe also been under the false impression that it was only the 14th. :\ (It's still the 15th in some time zones, right?))
This month's prompts are various quotes, poem stanzas, and song lyrics that I've been collecting in my notebook for the past several notes. They're just things that caught at me; there's no real theme whatsoever (other than the fact that they're all taken from things I've read or have been listening to recently). Happy Writing!
The Rules:
1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
1. 'Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future.'
2. 'Some people - and I am one of them - hate happy ends.'
3. 'I do not think that human understanding is a geographical notion.'
4. 'I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.'
5. 'In this city, self-preservation is a full-time occupation.'
6. 'When I was younger, I didn't know what I wanted, so I wanted everything.'
7. 'Violence is nothing more than the most flagrant manifestation of power.'
8. 'The reasonable woman, it seems, is not a schoolboy "sissy". She is a real man.'
9. '[I]t happens all the time. Men push. We submit.'
10. 'The only safe thing is to take a chance.'
11. '[W]hat if your identity is stuck with such firm adhesive to your old home that you leave little bits behind, and your new self is tattered and diminished?'
12. 'Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered.'
13. 'I would like to describe a light
Which is being born in me
But I know it does not resemble
Any star
For it is not so bright
Not so pure
And is uncertain'
14. 'My short skirt, believe it or not, has nothing to do with you.'
15. [T]he point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into an answer.'
16. 'Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.'
17. 'I am an emotional creature.
Things do not come to me
as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas.
They pulse through my organs and legs
and burn up my ears.'
18. 'Hell may be a dark place, but so is the womb.'
19. 'Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun's motion, they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come. The future stands still… but we move in infinite space.'
20. 'I've played the powerless
In too many dark scenes
And I was blessed with a birth and a death
And I guess I just want some say in-between.'
21. 'Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You can never go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again.'
22. 'Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginalize people different from ourselves.'
23. 'You keep your stability; I'll keep my heart.'
24. 'We’ll blend together like bleeding lips
& trust that death’ll be our dying wish
Come on over to the dark side
I’ll keep it warm
My love: don’t you worry
I’ve got you in my arms'
25. 'The fatal errors of life are not due to one's being unreasonable. An unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment.'
This month's prompts are various quotes, poem stanzas, and song lyrics that I've been collecting in my notebook for the past several notes. They're just things that caught at me; there's no real theme whatsoever (other than the fact that they're all taken from things I've read or have been listening to recently). Happy Writing!
The Rules:
1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
1. 'Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future.'
2. 'Some people - and I am one of them - hate happy ends.'
3. 'I do not think that human understanding is a geographical notion.'
4. 'I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me.'
5. 'In this city, self-preservation is a full-time occupation.'
6. 'When I was younger, I didn't know what I wanted, so I wanted everything.'
7. 'Violence is nothing more than the most flagrant manifestation of power.'
8. 'The reasonable woman, it seems, is not a schoolboy "sissy". She is a real man.'
9. '[I]t happens all the time. Men push. We submit.'
10. 'The only safe thing is to take a chance.'
11. '[W]hat if your identity is stuck with such firm adhesive to your old home that you leave little bits behind, and your new self is tattered and diminished?'
12. 'Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered.'
13. 'I would like to describe a light
Which is being born in me
But I know it does not resemble
Any star
For it is not so bright
Not so pure
And is uncertain'
14. 'My short skirt, believe it or not, has nothing to do with you.'
15. [T]he point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into an answer.'
16. 'Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.'
17. 'I am an emotional creature.
Things do not come to me
as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas.
They pulse through my organs and legs
and burn up my ears.'
18. 'Hell may be a dark place, but so is the womb.'
19. 'Just as people for a long time had a wrong idea about the sun's motion, they are even now wrong about the motion of what is to come. The future stands still… but we move in infinite space.'
20. 'I've played the powerless
In too many dark scenes
And I was blessed with a birth and a death
And I guess I just want some say in-between.'
21. 'Everything you've done, everything you've seen, everything you've become, remains. You can never go back, only forward, and if you don't bring the whole of yourself with you, you'll never see the sun again.'
22. 'Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginalize people different from ourselves.'
23. 'You keep your stability; I'll keep my heart.'
24. 'We’ll blend together like bleeding lips
& trust that death’ll be our dying wish
Come on over to the dark side
I’ll keep it warm
My love: don’t you worry
I’ve got you in my arms'
25. 'The fatal errors of life are not due to one's being unreasonable. An unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment.'