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The Writing Teacher. Top Story - August 2024.
Who was your writing teacher in school? Writing is a skill that starts with learning how to hold a pencil or writing instrument. The teacher would go around the room making sure everyone was holding the pencil in the right way whether right-handed or left-handed. We would move on to 'writing' lines (vertical and horizontal, smiles or we called them rockers). After a few weeks of these forms, we moved into learning letters then numbers to cursive writing. The end of the basics and just learning how to combine cursive letters joined together into words and sentences like the old adage 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.' to writing our own stories and thanks to my second-grade teacher and the English teachers since then I thank them to showing me the gift of the written word and the skill of handwriting.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
241 Sometimes I Surprise Even Myself. Top Story - August 2024.
Self-awareness is a big deal--evolutionarily. Our brain also creates foresight, purpose, empathy, and a sense of fulfillment. The list goes on... emotions, love, disdain, anger, remembering targets for revenge, praise, admiration, etc.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Things that remind me of flowers:. Top Story - August 2024.
Things that remind me of flowers: The ceiling fan in your bedroom that scared me, so we pushed the bed as far away from it as possible. Now, after a long night, I stare up at it and count its four petals rhythmically as my eyelids meet
By when I write2 years ago in Poets
My Superhero Origin Story By Hannah Moore. Top Story - August 2024.
This is a true story. What? Nobody said it had to be fiction. I’m a pretty ordinary person. An all-rounder, my teachers said. Shows potential. Well the thing about potential is it’s only possibility, and the thing about all-rounders is they excel at nothing. Don’t get me wrong, it makes life pretty…. adequate. I’m rarely terrified of losing my job, for example, because I believe I can secure another one before we starve, even if it wouldn’t be my first choice. It’s never my first choice.
By Hannah Moore2 years ago in Fiction
scratches in my mind - even misery.... Top Story - August 2024.
even misery its contemptibility hates your company * Thanks for reading! Author's Notes: I was thinking of the famous phrase "misery loves company" and then thought about tipping it...because sometimes...when I'm at my lowest, I think even misery hates my company. Curiously, the image was created by putting the full senryu into NightCafe's prompt box. Felt it was very fitting. I also felt it fit in with the scratches in my mind series.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Poets
The Ones That Got Away. Top Story - August 2024.
When I attended high school in Macon, Georgia I quickly made a new friend. She was bright, vivacious and had a great sense of humor. She had jet black, curly hair, blue eyes lit with mischief and an infectious smile. The best way to describe her was “petite voluptuous”. No matter where we went together, she was the life of the party and people, (especially guys), seemed drawn to her.
By Veronica Coldiron2 years ago in Humans
Shades of Carnivorous . Top Story - August 2024.
ArturoThe boy starves to become to the man he needs to be. He exists in a vacuum of terror and scary questions that cannot be released without paying a large price for freedom. He latches onto deep, dark reds, to soak in his hunger like a ravenous wolf. When he meets the anger that feels like a twin in Dan, he wants to sink his teeth into that fury like the finest cut of beef, raw. He is carnivorous inside, a growling pang of non-stop hunger for something deeper.ManuelThe man hunts whoever is in his path, and all are potentially his new prey. No one is safe to his endless vices of money, drugs, sex and power. Everyone and everything can be used as trophies and as a result of his ravenous pride that stalks others like a silent crocodile hunting for unsuspecting prey. He is carnivorous outside, leeching onto others like a parasite to suck them dry.DanThe quiet anger that seeps inside of the police captain is like a well of grief, pouring out like a lion that growls with no bite. He is stalked by the most common of prey, looking for a way to gain sympathy to look wounded so Dan can come to their aid. However, once the prey locks Dan in, they take care to slowly devour him from the inside out. He has an ineffable carnivorous nature that only can be seen by the scars and lesions that have cracked his heart, mind and body.SeraUnlucky in love, Sera looks at any potential competition for a suitor to be dead-meat. She will look at them like prey to destroy, to finish off. Even as a vegan, she will lock in her supposed enemy of love with a deadly glare. She is carnivorous in ways of love, passion and romance.AkiAn orphan that seeks approval, the soft-spoken comedian longs to find the deep red hues of his broken youth. He hungers for a lost feeling, a sense of belonging and home. Its a split red popsicle that seeps blood in the end that really hangs Aki’s life in the balance; a carnivorous, broken stoplight that spouts red flags and pain in place of real family and love.
By Melissa Ingoldsby2 years ago in Poets
Shades of Shadows. Top Story - August 2024.
After so long alone, after the death of all he loved, really is it any wonder that he chose his path. Staring down into the fresh graves where his wife and son were to be buried in effigy, their bodies lost to the desolation of war, he broke away from the world. It was nothing to him any more, nothing. And yet, in his aimless wanderings, he found new purpose.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Fiction
