Provided Word: Maybe
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblack
i like this one.The cherries have grown in like maroon superballs dangling from the branches. Around the trunk is a bed of bright snapdragons in cool earth ( Read more... )

There are threatening aircraft above the arcades, and soft folds. Their passes have gotten lower. Cranial sound barriers rattle like artillery violence. The synapses went wrong, hot misfires somewhere between belief withholdings, and a nasty bit of wind ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Weight
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackFor their third date she cooked and then they watched a movie. The day before, she had imagined herself in the kitchen preparing dinner while he'd sit at the table, chatting and observing. She wondered if she should have bare feet and wear a skirt? She thought she'd care, but when he arrived, ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Child
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackThe child stopped inspecting the ants on the sidewalk in time to see his cousin dash into the street after a red ball. The car screeched to a stop with not enough time to avoid hitting the girl. Her body flipped up on the windshield and landed on the asphalt with a smacking thud. The driver was ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Split
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackIn the year of the split-veined tulips, I made no decision to blot out my memory, but it went anyway - as if half of myself took huge swabs and sopped it all up so nothing was behind me. After that, when others would ask me if I remembered so-and-so a time, my eyes emptied out. No day in the ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Seam
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackWhen she wasn't tailoring for customers or mending her own family's clothes, she worked on the dress for herself. It had taken a year ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Steal
Word Count: 100
Originating post from: anonymousblack
(The idea here is stealing love.)In the quiet house around the quiet dinner table, the child listened to the utensils tap the plates. Her father's fork was terse. He held his knife in his hand without using it. Her mother's fork clicked precisely, her knife slid. The child herself was ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Vampire
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblack
I hate this one the most so far.no one ever expects the weaknesses, or pathetic outfitting. we whisper, "oh scary. terrifyingly powerful," but that's lies. there's all kinds. mythology is a paper tower ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Genesis
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblack'Genesis' was playing on the car's radio the first time he rounded third base and went all the way with her in the backseat. His back-pocket comb had fallen out of his jeans and was on the floor of the car where she could see it when she turned her head to look at the clock in the dashboard ( Read more... )

Provided Word: Bend
Word Count: 100
originating post: anonymousblackFinally, Geoffrey found his voice (previously stuck under the granite lump in his throat) and asked Paulina Scofield to dance. He fumbled his arm around her waist and caught her small hand with his own sweaty one. He stiffly paced her around in a strict, fast circle. Paulina kept clearing her ( Read more... )