Sweet Poison

"Why I'm not in love with you?" I sigh and drop my head in my hand.

He comes closer. So close that I can feel the air he's exhaling.

"Because", He whispers in my ear."If you were in love with me, It would have been perfect. And this life can't bear perfect things."

He pulls himself away from me. I look up into his eyes his eyes are shining in love. Glowing and telling me that he's the only one who'll love me always. Like the moon always orbits the earth. But here I am, even after knowing

everything, feeling every bit of love he has for me, I couldn't make myself fall in love with him. I didn't choose him. I just couldn't. My love is so stubborn that it makes me do everything it wants. It made me fall for a person for whom I'm too much. The person who only loves a version of me who isn't alive anymore. Who only loves daytime when I only exist in dark? And even though I've a person who loves me unconditionally, loves every version of me whether it's the happy one or the dead one... Who can turn the whole world around just for me, I can't love him. Love didn't allow me to choose him. Love made me wait for the person who's going further and further without turning to me once. Look at me I'm the dumb girl who's controlled by love. I'm too intoxicated with the sweet poison. My sweet poison Nyle.

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A sweet love turning into poison.

Challenge

NOVEL-A-LONG #1: The Prologue

Hey Prosers! Let’s write a novel! I’ve decided it would be fun to host a series of challenges, each focused on a different step for writing a brand new story. Over the next few months, your story will grow as you process new ideas and be inspired by your fellow writers. We’re in this together! Every two weeks, I will release the next challenge, so try to keep up! Save all your entries and watch them pile up into a fully-fledged novel—written entirely by you! ———— This first challenge is simple: set the stage. Give us a short scene to serve as a prologue to your story. If you have no ideas, start with something you’ve seen today and then watch it transform over the next few months. PLEASE no graphic sex, nudity, or profanity.

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Bad Idea

"I taught you how to pick locks and this is how you use that skill!?"

Under my breath, I seethed.

"Well, I'm sorry I'm not practical with my skills, oh wise teacher," I spat through grit teeth. "What do you want me to do? Break into the Louvre to steal the Mona Lisa?"

I was met with an eye roll.

"Still, for a candy box?"

"Hey, I'm curious! What's the point of candy if you don't share it," I point out, "Or eat it." Cynthia shrugged and watched me work.

"Still, the boss doesn't like it when we look through his things. I don't know why you haven't learned this by now. Sometimes I think you want an early grave."

"I'll just take a quick peek—or bite," I said, "and he won't even know the difference."

"I won't know the difference about what?" Cynthia and I froze in our tracks. We're completely screwed for this one.

Challenge

Who has got the BEST First Liner?

Can you make us thirsty for an entire novel by writing your BEST first line? Write the BEST first line to the next story that you never knew you wanted to tell. Sell us on your big idea in forty (40) words or less, no more. Draw us in by saying everything to overwhelm our minds with excitement or say just enough to lure us in and have us lusting for the next four-hundred pages. Any Genre is allowed. The object is to grab us at the beginning and to make us never want to let go. Must be done in one sentence. Happy writing!

Inking_dreams in Flash Fiction

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Spectator

I look out the window, watching the rest of my classmates in their own little world, with no care in the world, there's only one question on my mind - which one am I going to kill next?