That Bitch, Depression

Before you decide to “cross over to the other side”, please tell me what brought you to this point. I want to understand why you are in so much pain. I want to hear what you have to say. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done, I am not here to judge. I will be the last to “cast a stone” - because I have been in your shoes. Life can be a BITCH and depression is the SON of the BITCH.

Unload your burdens and let me be your friend. I could use a friend, myself – and if you leave this earth, I will miss the opportunity to get to know you. Allow me to help you out of this hole. Allow me to find you whatever help I can. Let me be with you in recovery. Hell, instead of an end, maybe this can be a new beginning for both of us.

Challenge

Talk someone out of suicide

omverse

84 reads

Minimum

Can't say this with available minimum...

Three; Life is Indestructible. Two; Everything Changes. One; Infinite.

Challenge

Famous First Words: Write a great opening line to a novel.

Charlton_Ghosh

77 reads

Dead, Again...

The man was tall and thin, his hair grew long and his skin was pale. He wasn't anything like the person I thought I would first meet in the afterlife.

Challenge

Famous First Words: Write a great opening line to a novel.

JRose

111 reads

It starts with a slam

It starts with a slam the way it always does when he comes. The house is quiet, not a word is spoke as the door opens. She sits in her closet eyes shut tightly her hands pressed to her ears while she sakes... then.. he walks in and she trembles.

Challenge

Write the longest grammatically sound alliteration you can possibly muster. The longest such alliteration's author wins $150 if, and only if, this challenge receives at least 300 entries. Editing is allowed.

If you don't know what an alliteration is, Google it. Ensure that your entry is an alliteration and that it forms a coherent thought. Remember, editing is allowed.

JDSteiner in Words

164 reads

Synecdoche

Still solo, seemingly suspended, sifting soulfully, seeking some secret soft, sublime, surprising, sinful, stimulating, solid substantial syntax so synergy syncs supplemental subsidy spontaneously sans struggle.

Challenge

Write a very short story about honesty. Check the description for an extra detail.

Honesty is important. Write a short story about being honest but add some interesting twist at the very end of the tale.

TheCaptainsWife in Fiction

107 reads

True, Literally

Vanessa was beginning to irritate me, anything anyone else had done, she'd gone one better. To Clara's gingerly offered poem, Vanessa had poetry published. To Rose's excitement about a catwalk opportunity, she had walked for "names" Apparently Vanessa had modelled, had books published, sang with a band, and started her own company. Not that I thought she was lying, just gilding the lilly a bit.

Finally she turned on me

"and what interesting things have you done" she asked with a sneer

"Well, one wet Wednesday I walked out of Sirens Strip club with $23,000 in my pocket"

Vanessa gulped and suddenly needed to go to the ladies

As she left Rosie burst out laughing

"Are you going to tell her that you are an interior designer and had just finished project managing the new bar"

"No" I replied, smiling