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February 16, 2025

Prompt for Apex Group by Traci Dowe/Kenworth

02-11-25 WRITING PROMPT SUBMISSIONS Posted by Matthew Bockholt on February 12, 2025 at 10:47 am Prompt: Four survivors anxiously await dawn. Max Words: 200 POV: 3rd Person Tense: Present Challenge: No “be” verbs. Matthew Bockholt replied 2 days, 2 hours ago Thay locked the car doors. It was all she could think to do in that moment. She pulled the baby close to her…

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February 6, 2025

Prompt 1-Apex Traci Dowe/Kenworth Feb. 6, 2025

Matthew Bockholt created a discussion in Weekly Writing Prompt: 02-04-25 WRITING PROMPT SUBMISSIONS Matthew Bockholt Prompt: Write the first sentence of a story. Introduce the protagonist, main plot, and major conflict. <b style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Minimum Words: 75 Maximum Words: 100 I’ve got a new thing I’m trying out. Years ago,…

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August 8, 2022

Finding the Inner Truth/Beauty in Yourself by Traci Kenworth

Finding the Inner Truth/Beauty in Yourself Traci Kenworth The taunts and cruelty growing up can cause you to lose faith in yourself. To not want to be who you are. Anything special, anything unique, you work to do away with. Because that would make you different. And different is bad. Or at least, that seems…

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June 6, 2022

Are We Haunted By Our Pasts? Traci Kenworth

Are We Haunted By Our Pasts? Traci Kenworth Sometimes what we write comes from within. Something in our pasts, a memory trying to break free. When we stare at the words, we’ve written we realize there’s a familiarity there. Considering what it might be, we wonder: where did that come from? Did it touch upon…

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February 14, 2022

A Little Bit of Rouge There… by Traci Kenworth

A Little Bit of Rouge There, A Little Bit of Shade to Our Characters Traci Kenworth Foreshadowing has never been my strong suit. I see authors such as J.K. Rowling that have snuck items in books that the reader wouldn’t have even noticed in the beginning. And then you just look back in awe. How…

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May 4, 2021

Teen Topics: to the tune of Characters 5/4/2021 Traci Kenworth

Teen Topics: to the Tune of Characters 5/4/2021 Traci Kenworth Over the years, we can grow stagnant. In an effort to try a new spin on things for the future of the blog, I’m going to be trying to do something different. I want to focus less on being a blogger, more on being an…

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August 27, 2020

Three Senryu and a Short Story Traci Kenworth

Mementos scatteredacross the map of the worldpictures of times past all recallhappier days nowsinged in ash journalsthe spyglassno clues Keepsakes Traci Kenworth How long had it been? Those stolen moments? Those discovered treasures. She pressed her fingertips to each. Oh, how she missed him. Days scattered into weeks and months. And finally, years. She picked…

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August 6, 2020

Three Senryu and a Story 8/6/2020 Traci Kenworth

Dead windows wait forthe joy of the children onceroomed within their walls curtains hanglimp with dust as astillborn cries pictures decay while tears drop The House on Vasket Street Traci Kenworth They’d moved in three months ago. Dreams full. Hopes high. Delaney inspected her face in the passenger mirror window. Her face had filled out. She patted…

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March 13, 2019

The Muse Story: The House Traci Kenworth 3/13/19

The House Traci Kenworth Fifteen-year-old, Jandy Burrows started up the stairs of the old, decaying house. He’d been here two hours. Only rusty nails and dust greeted him. He was sure he’d have better luck in the attic. The smell in the air turned to Sulphur, he could taste the ruin on his tongue. Ashes…

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January 16, 2019

The Muse Story: The Sky Library by Traci Kenworth

The Sky Library Traci Kenworth Lindora stared at the volumes of books before her. How to choose just one? Above her, the library ceiling disintegrated to a picture of the sky. Images of clouds bathed the spines of the books. She stepped back. Had the world changed? Or just the library? If she listened close,…

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