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Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #0. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Prompt #0. Show all posts
Monday, 17 June 2024

'Not What We Came Here For' by Julia Ruth Smith

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We lay down to love in a field of fire-red, flutter-flutter flowers without knowing their name in our language. We skim-skimmed perfect ston...

A Young Man Ignores His Father by Lynda McMahon

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 Icarus took to the air with the confidence and exuberance of youth. He soared above the earth and watched rainbows form among the clouds as...

'The Day She Rose' by Jamie M. Pratt

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Lily stood with her bare feet on the water-soaked earth in the middle of the small yard; the crisp cool air brought forth the smell of rain ...

The Scent of Rain by Cath Barton

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‘You know what that smell in the air is, don’t you?’ I said, feeling sure he would lecture me about it in his usual way, but making the effo...

'Refreshment' by Jane Claire Jackson

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Behind the waterfall, the air was cooler. Wren filled the earthenware jug, enjoying the icy droplets sprinkling her arms. She was glad of th...
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'The Final Element' by Sean Hill

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Bound feet crushed the brittle stone of the mountain, the ash of long burned away earth grasping at the shrouded face. Below, embers singing...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

'We Are All Elements Here' by Laura Cooney

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Earth is a labourer named Dave, he spends a lot of time digging and dealing with shit and grime in sewage pipes, he does not have clean hand...
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'From The Clouds' by Jaime Bree

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Her feet never felt secure on Earth, knowing what she knew and having the abilities she had, made her existence difficult to conceal from th...

'The ineffable reason we can’t let the fifth element play with us' by Donna M Day

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‘She’s just too hot-headed,’ fire sputters, crimson flamed. Water disagrees, as she finds her very cold, almost frosty, but with boiling tor...

'Witch' by Nick Fogg

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As they dragged her mother from the water, a wild-eyed wee lassie wrenched herself free from the hands that had held her. She followed the c...

The Final Test by Scott MacLeod

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  Liam had been planning and training for this ordeal since his earliest days on earth. He had expended Herculean effort punctuated with mom...

'Doctor's Orders' by Elisa Dominique Rivera

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The doctor gathered all her earthly people skills to give me the news with a straight face. No, I can't have a face reconstruction to in...
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'Pic-Nic' by Jennifer Mungham

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The scouts had nearly drowned; washed away in a localised deluge of sparkling water from above, but sticky and sweet smelling they had pers...

'A Creative Storm' by Heain Joung

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In the darkness there is a spark. The light bolts, and the thunder claps. The earth shakes as the air shivers. The water falls, and the fire...

'Finding Warmth in a Cold Wet World' by Nina Miller

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Divya swept mud from the hearth, the waterlogged clumps sticking to her broom. Her hair, still wet from constant rain, hung limp with droopi...

'My Tulsa Fished the Shiktehawk Stream' by Angela Joynes

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No matter what, my mother does grief her own way, standing apart under the butternut tree, wearing a black wool suit and a black expression,...

'Perseverance' by Sravanthi Challapalli

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This was the last time she would look for a mud pot, Maggie told herself as she approached the lady selling her wares by the road. She had b...
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'The Madness of King James VI' by Rachel Burrows

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Her soaked airless hood hung heavy, making her crouched shape nothing more than a rock to the casual observer. But it was no casual observer...

'Why the Wind Laughs' by Luanne Castle

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An enormous gust of air blew a crevasse in the parched earth, sending puffs of dust skyward before gravity pulled down the spark-sprinkled d...
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'Beginning' By Marie Little

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I dug him from the earth, his blunt claws no match for the heavy clods they’d piled on top. He drank water from my hand, as if it were life ...
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