I've got new neighbors who just moved in downstairs with a few screaming monsters toddlers and I can't sleep for all the noise. I have a very short tolerence for other people's childeren (and seeing as how I have none of my own, this would mean *everyone's* children) and realizing this made me decide not to be a teacher after all and swear off ( Read more... )

The old lady's house was tucked in between two hotels drenched in neon. It was easy to miss, but once I noticed it, I couldn't get it out of my head. I stared at it from the balcony of my own neon drenched hotel, wondering what the story was. I figured the house had been standing in that spot longer than anything else that was around it. Maybe ( Read more... )

( Prompt 005. and 006 )

The sound of important shoes came clicking down the hallway.

She said "I've been here for a year and a half and have loved every minute of it." Normally when someone says they "love" something, the word is emphasized for meaning. You can actually see the italics hanging in the air. In this case however, if tones could rhyme, love rhymed with it ( Read more... )

Prompt 001.

Who is your protagonist? What does he/she do for a living? If he/she were to walk into Wal-Mart today, what would he/she buy and why? What does he/she look like?

*Bonus Question*: What is your protagonist's favorite novel and why?Leigh. She is a cashier at an independent used bookstore/record store (haven't deiced on which yet). ( Read more... )

1. Name/nickname: Ray
2. Gender: male
3. Age: 27
4. Height/weight: 6'2'' 180#
5. Eye color: blue
6. Hair color: brown, short and spiky
7. Unusual facial/body features: lots of peircings, a few tattoos (on of which is an eagle spaning the width of his back), has very defined chizzled facial features, tall and thin, scars scattered over his body from ( Read more... )

Leigh - early 20's, has short chin-length pink hair always spiked out in some crazy style, is pierced in a number of places, and dresses like somebody who wants to dress like they're punk but doesn't want to look like they want to dress like they're punk. (Um, in other words, she doesn't want to look like she's trying to be anything, but this in ( Read more... )

So we've got the basic set-up. 30 chapters for 30 days. Opening chapter is actually day 30. Girl standing on the ledge, about to jump (or whatever her suicide method of choice will be), and it goes backwards from there. Next chapter will be Day 1, starting with whatever it is that brought her to Day 30 and standing on the ledge ( Read more... )

You asked me to tell you why I stopped writing. Begged me Please, God! not to walk in front of some goddamn bus. It's all cliche, I said. Used up. Words seem like the tops of balloons when the real things are too high up for eyes to see.