ashleynichole12

I've been writing for a few years now, and I have always loved to read. Fiction is so beautiful.

16 reads

Wandering

I was holding my sleeping baby in my arms. It was three in the morning, and my dad called me.I could hear crickets in the background, when if anything there should have been the sound of late night television. He said he was tired, then he hung up and didn't answer for the next ten minutes. I finally got a hold of him, and he was trying to get into someone's truck. Somewhere that was not his house, or anywhere nearby because my sisters were driving around looking for him.He kept saying to me to unlock the door. It took me at least an hour through multiple hangups and hoping that his phone wouldn't die, but I finally got him to read the license plate number to me, so the police could find him. Five miles away from his house.

Pardon my French, fuck dementia.

Challenge

Challenge of the Week XXXIX

You took your smartphone and moved back to 1984. For the sake of the plot, your phone works perfectly, but a condition of your year-long relocation in time is no one can see it, or know about it. You are to report back to 2023 the contrasts: With people, music, overall humanity, anything. Send texts, pics, videos, undetected. The elite group with whom you work has cracked the code of time travel and intervention, and while the race to colonize Mars rages on, your group has decided to instead go back to 1984 to reset the world, so to speak. Before that power leaves a seamless, yet indelible mark on the future, the group has to decide if it's for the better, or to go ahead and let it all run the course it's on, and start looking skyward for continuation. Make it funny, make it deep, make it dark, make it yours. Entry with the most likes takes the $25 wire. Go.

ashleynichole12

7 reads

Chameleon

Hey guys, sorry it's taken me so long to check in but I guess the Integration Department really did a good job on their research, because everybody keeps asking me where I got my shoes. I almost got caught in a fight between some teenagers at a restaurant who were arguing over whether Eddie Van Halen had sold out with the synthesizers on Jump or if he was a "Radical Badass" or something. It's cool and it's not, kind of like this trip. You will not believe how good the cheeseburgers are. Do they even know what trans fats are? Have those been invented...discovered...I dunno. All the women are eating salad so I stick out like a sore thumb. Not to mention, I am having an awful time trying to do my hair . Can somebody please ask Cathy what degree of angle I'm supposed to hold the blow-dryer to the radius of my head. I'm just not getting that look of "I stuck a fork into a socket, but don't worry, your taxes will be done on time."

I can't help but feel optimistic, I mean, these people do, and half the time they're standing in a cloud of car exhaust and secondhand smoke. It's really no wonder the millenials are so anxious, all the parents are dragging their kids around by the elbow and hitting them when they have "Just about had enough of that." Write that down McKaylah, see how little Alexis responds to that and get back to me. Don't worry, her slate will be wiped clean when she hits 18, who reads billboards anyways. Hey, am I allowed to make sports bets? Hahaha, I'm kidding, I know, too early for Back to the Future jokes, right? Hey guess what's on the radio right now, it's your favorite Joel!

Karma-karma-karma-karma-

Ashley

Challenge

Challenge of the Week

Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.

ashleynichole12

9 reads

Tease

There's a lot of learning,

As part of the process

So I do lots of reading,

Of different genres.

And my brain does a thing,

It unravels the strings,

Of the stories I've read

And daily life things.

Then it weaves something new,

And I put it on paper.

But to share one right now

Would feel like a favor.

So what about this,

Tell me more about you,

And if things go well,

You can read quite a few.

Challenge

Together, we can break the world record for longest book. When this challenge gets the necessary number of entries, it will expire and we will turn it into a book. Each entry will be its own chapter. Feel free to build from existing entries or write something radically different.

ashleynichole12

35 reads

The weather is terrible, that's for sure. There's no power, and we are almost out of wood in the basement.It's been freezing, and the roads are covered in ice. I think that these new weird, forgive me, zombies, are going to be the only things moving out on the street. A few of them have frozen to the ground, but then the skin tears off of their feet, until they have lost all of their skin and muscle and blood. It's like the grossest version of that scene in A Christmas Story that I have ever seen. I only want to vomit when I look at them, which is always, because this is like a nightmare that keeps going.I keep expecting them to get through the barricade, or just.......oh god, my asthma is acting up again.brb.....I wish there wasn't people I used to know out there. Now I have that stupid song stuck in my head. I really keep thinking I'm going to wake up or something.