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SWS: Instructions for Disappearing Challenge Winners
For Instructions for Disappearing, we asked for poems written like guides to vanishing. Not recipes or roadmaps, but rituals, whispers, and warnings. You gave us disappearances that were bodily and brutal, quiet and dreamlike, haunting and necessary. Some slipped away gently, others tore themselves out line by line.
By Vocal Curation Teamabout a year ago in Resources
Pharaoh’s Vizier. Top Story - August 2025.
“Look at him, would you? He’s sure got it made! Everything served up on a golden platter…” Judah’s gaze followed the direction of the dusty arm next to him. Impressive! Their focus centred on a man exuding power, position, prestige. Clean shaven, chiselled featured, clad in court dress of the finest pristine linen. Pharaoh’s distinctive signet ring winked on the hand gripping an exquisitely ornate silver goblet. A heavy gold chain hung from his neck. ‘Absolute Power’ personified!
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶about a year ago in Fiction
Crimson Streaks. Winner in This Is How I Remember It Challenge. Top Story - August 2025. Content Warning.
His wailing became chiffon around his widening eyes and outmatched the volume from the television set. Crimson streaks flowed down from his index finger, the
By Jose Antonio Sotoabout a year ago in Poets
Good Boy. Top Story - August 2025. Content Warning.
I live in a rural part of eastern Kansas. It’s your typical Midwestern small town: there’s a church on every block but the nearest hospital is twenty miles out. It’s the quiet, bucolic little corner of the world that I call home. It can get boring sometimes, yes, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
By Emily Albersabout a year ago in Horror
In the Dybbuk’s Pocket. Top Story - August 2025.
I first met Uncle Henry at my aunt's seder, I guess, well, back in the late 1980s. He wasn't really an uncle -- at least, not mine -- but he looked like an uncle, and I was a kid, and that's what my aunt and my parents and everyone else called him.
By Paul Levinsonabout a year ago in Fiction
Gender-Flipped Villain Pitch: Dr. Zin (Jonny Quest). Top Story - August 2025.
It's been a minute since I last wrote a gender-flipped villain pitch, and while I have been focused on Beyond the Gates, the road to the 2025 Stanley Cup, the upcoming NFL season, and a few Villainess Reviews, my wheels have still been turning when it comes to gender-flipping villains. I've written three pitches, but I still have so many ideas. It was a matter of which one to write next, and making sure I had the best actresses in mind.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
10 Things You Learn Fast As a New Writer. Top Story - August 2025.
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”— Stephen King There’s a lot of commentary in the writing community about what it means to live the writer’s life. It’s a little bit different for everyone, but there are a lot of commonalities that almost all writers can resonate with.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFAabout a year ago in Writers
Materialists (2025). Top Story - August 2025.
Director, Writer: Celine Song Starring: Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” (Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice)
By Rachel Robbinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Please Don't Leave The Light On. Top Story - August 2025.
Straight, strong, and mud-like coffee keeps us going as we navigate the blinding white, hard-packed gravel road, heading north. We have crossed the sixtieth parallel and use peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches thickly spread on rye bread, along with long strands of red licorice, to stave off hunger without stopping for breaks. For amusement, I stick one end of a string in my mouth, and he takes the other end. We chew it until our cheeks touch. No worries about refrigerating a sandwich with mayonnaise in it, in these cold, below-zero temperatures. The quart-sized stainless thermos of java is shared between us; I drink from the lid, and he slurps out of his oversize Alaska Railroad mug. I've never drunk so much coffee in my life, but we want to get to Anchorage and are driving nonstop from the Lower 48. It's a good thing we both have young bladders and can hold off for five to six hours before taking a potty break.
By Andrea Corwin about a year ago in Fiction
For Future Fiction Fun. Top Story - August 2025.
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise:Buy a notebook to use for just this one exercise. Then, on a regular basis, perhaps at the beginning of your writing time, or before you go to bed, write for ten to twenty minutes addressing each of the following subjects:* List in detail all the places you have lived - one place per page. (This is a good way to begin because it gives the entire notebook a concrete grounding in time and place.) You might even want to get very specific, say by recounting all the kitchens or bedrooms.* Next, recall if you were happy or unhappy in those places.* Consider your parents' relationship, from their point of view.*List important family members: brothers and sisters, grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins. What were the dynamics of your nuclear family, your extended family? (Some of these subjects may take several twenty-minute sessions. Leave space for unfinished business.)
By Denise E Lindquistabout a year ago in Writers
Confessions of a Former Alcoholic Part 15. Top Story - August 2025.
You may have heard this term before in the liberalism movement, but the human brain is distinguished from other animals by its will and ideas. I especially don't want to hear any religious terminology regarding my former faith anymore. Because after learning the realities about my former faith, I became disgusted with it and chose my own group.
By TheNaethabout a year ago in Confessions
