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I'm just a guy who likes to write, and that is all there is to it.
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The world is ending and all that's left is one piece of paper. You have space for ten words. What do you write?
Use another ten words or less to describe who you would want to read it.
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fictionings in Sci-Fi

Our Legacy

Our legacy was found scrawled on a scrap by what-came -next:

“Humanity may’ve failed, but we tried damn hard not to.”

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"I'm not sure why every leaf must die..."
Create a poem with this beginning.
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fictionings in Poetry & Free Verse

An Ephemeral Eternity

I’m not sure why every leaf

Must die in Autumn.

I don’t know why ever child

Must age.

The things around us do not last,

Shall never last for long.

But still we’ll live and laugh and love,

If we didn’t, that he wrong.

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Describe what being young feels like in only one sentence!
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fictionings in Philosophy

Youth

You can feel the pain, but you’ll find that you have always the strength to fight it, until, at last, the day that you can fight no longer comes and you find that you’re not so young, not anymore.

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The worst feeling in the world
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Irrelevance

It feels like a numbness, yet only slides somehow deeper.

It screams in your head like anxiety but it somehow screams louder.

It cuts you down from wherever you set, dragging you lower and lower until there is nothing lower left.

That’s what irrelevance feels like, just knowing you don’t matter, knowing everyone is just as numb as you.

That’s the worst feeling in the world, that’s the one that really hurts.

That’s the one that beats you while you are already down.

Irrelevance, now that’s the worst feeling in the world.

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Write a poem using your Prose username. I'll do one as an example.
Write a poem that uses/pertains to your prose username. Don't forget to tag me @chainedinshadow
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fictionings in Poetry & Free Verse

Dylan Writes

There is only one reason Dylan writes,

And it is because he enjoys it so.

It might mean he just cannot sleep some nights,

But he just can’t stop when words start to flow.

When others might prefer to play a game,

He would rather just sit and read his book.

It is easy to find someone to blame,

A childhood of reading is all it took.

He likes to write stories and poetry,

They might not be great, but he is learning.

I hope you all like it as much as he,

If you do, you could try returning.

I hope you like the work of this strange man,

He’ll keep writing for as long as he can.

@chainedinshadow

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15 words to define human life.
take it however you please. deep, insightful, pessimistic, all welcome. but remember that humor is always appreciated. =)
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Life in all its unknowable glory

Human life is beyond explanation.

But it will bring so much elation,

Causing only celebration.