Provided Word: Table
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackA meet-for-breakfast wasn't so odd. It was her bedtime and his day start. She looked lightly worn from a graveyard shift. He had pressed sleep marks by his eyes. The tables around them were silent with slow-day-starters working their way though coffee. The waitresses were pert, buzzing ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Radius
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblack"When we die we lose our identities and just become a consciousness, which has its benefits," he sniffed. "But when you lay down tonight, close your eyes and consider not being you. None of the things that make you individual. And then also, no trees, no flowers, no dogs such as they are, none ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Cough
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackWhen blood started coming up with the cough, it scared him. It had happened first in Spanish class when he was identifying farm animals on a hand out and writing in the proper names. Just as he wrote, "El Caballo," he felt the irrepressible tickle in his chest and didn't get his hand to his ( Read more... )

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Provided Word: Stairwell
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackThere was a disagreement, and words spoken closely so the other could feel warm breath and emotion, but it was about something else, of course. In those moments of half-listening and studying each other's clothing - waiting for the break in speaking, a cue - she thought about Summer days ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Revelation
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackThe car was surprisingly crowded for the time before rush hour. The man smashed himself next to a woman, threaded his hand in a strap, and held on while they lurched forth in pulses. What he noticed first was that she smelled good. Better than even most women. Like apricots, cinnamon, and ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Contrast
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackQuestion 3 was: "Compare and contrast the roles of Darcy and Bingley as the pursued and as pursuers in 'Pride and Prejudice.' " Her head filled with every color of the answer, but she didn't care to make her hand transcribe it. Outside the window it was warm, early Summer ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Silver
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackWalking back through the field she tugged on his hand, so he'd stop too. He looked at her face. Her eyes were closed. She stood and smelled deeply and listened to the field at night. He kept his eyes open. The darkness-by-moon cast everything black, silver, and grainy. The trees at the ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Archive
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblack"I'm so sick of important hands and veins. I'm tired of cowardice." She took up smoking for the moment because it suited the delivery ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Ice
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackWe skidded and held hands and steadied each other right. Sliding the ice at night is different than day: the further from shore the more the night, and toward the natural center, into a nothing ( Read more... )