clarymtaylor

Just a Chronically Ill teen with a passion for writing, my piano, and various Starbucks concoctions.

Rules are simple...upon reading this challenge, look into your phone, find the most recent text message you sent, and turn it into a story. Poetry or prose, anything goes! The story with the most likes wins! Please tag me in the comments! Have fun!

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What is life?

We're all alive, at least I hope we are. But what is living? What is life?

Some say life is simply breathing. In and out, in and out, and bam! You're alive.

But it doesn't feel like living.

Some say life is a list of criteria. Science has a checklist: DNA, energy, response, reproduction. I fit all these boxes, I exist.

But it doesn't feel like living.

Some say life is having fun. Parties, drinking, doing drugs. Everything else just becomes a dizzy fog. I've tried parties, fallen into the haze.

But itt doesn't feel like living.

Some say life is worthless. That none of us really matter. Life, death, who cares?

I do. Death is inevitable. But not caring?

It doesn't feel like living.

Some say life is career. If you work hard enough, make enough money, have enough success, you'll be alive. Work is important, sure.

But it doesn't feel like living.

I say life is love. That loving your partner, loving yourself, loving your fellow humans, loving your job, loving your activities? That's real. That's what matters.

That's living.

Challenge

A Lifetime in a blink

A shortish story describing someone's life in a series of ''blinks''. Basically every blink considerable time has passed since the last blink and the blinks shall together create a telling of a lifetime. For example you can base it around immigration or slavery or history or mental illnesses. Here is an example of the preferable formatting: 'scene in someone's life' blink 'another scene in someone's life at a further point' blink ect.. I hope someone takes interest to this prompt ad tries it out!

clarymtaylor in Fiction

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No So Perfect After All

A child is born. A mother cries. An absent father flies away.

*blink*

A happy child. A perfect family. A mother, a brother, a new father.

*blink*

A screaming child. A broken body. A lack of answers.

*blink*

A hospital stay. A surgery. A scared family.

*blink*

A diagnosis. A genetic disease. A dying child.

*blink*

A family struggling to adapt. A terrified daughter. A lack of hope.

*blink*

A year of pain and fear.

*blink*

A child with an all A report card. A girlfriend. A future.

*blink*

A college experience. A marriage. A child.

*blink*

An ICU. An aortic dissection. A failed surgery. A deathdate.

*blink*

All black at the funeral. A family without a daughter. A child without her mother.

A not-so-perfect family after all.

Challenge

i miss you

write a poem beginning with the line "I miss you" and ending with "I miss you, too." anything in between is your call. have fun, and tag me @dream

clarymtaylor in Poetry & Free Verse

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No

"I miss you"

Where to begin

You're too close to me

Etched in my skin

"I miss you"

A liar's game

You're nothing but a cheat

It makes me insane

"I miss you"

Cuts to the bone

I know the truth

You, I disown

I know it's fake

You've proven it true

But I won't lie.

"I miss you too"

Challenge

Challenge of the Week CXXX

Have Faith. Write about the consequences of having faith in something, or someone. Does it go well? Or does it crash and burn? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.

clarymtaylor

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Mother

I had faith in you, truly.

You were the hero in my mind

I thought you’d swoop in and save me

Not just betray me.

I had hope

I believed in you, truly.

Defended you through the ‘growing pains’

Surely, she loves me?

Surely, she’d never leave me.

I was so naive

I followed you, truly.

Through every high and low

I assumed you’d accept me

Desperately trusted you loved me.

I wasn’t enough

I was killed by you, truly.

You ripped out my soul

And crushed me

I thought you loved me.

I was wrong

I still love you, truly.

Through this betrayel

You’re always a part of me

Forever etched within me

I want you out