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  • Tentacles
  • Twenty-four Years
  • A Window of Opportunity
  • Incarnations of a Woman Made Real
  • Tentacles

    I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a right arm.I have a tentacle instead of a riI’m supposed to write it ten times but my left hand starts shaking so I can’t hold the pen steady and the back of my head is buzzing and I have to do deep breaths like Dr. Spinoza showed me. In for four counts, out for five. In for four, out for five. In for four, out for five.I ...47yone door

    Twenty-four Years

    Twenty-four YearsIt had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. Twenty-four years ago she had been a patient at the Berwick Hospital Center’s ER. Angela could still hear all the sounds that surrounded her as she lay on a bed in one of the curtained off cubicles. She laid there worried about her baby sister and totally pissed off at her brother that had crashed them into a telephone pole. She stood here today outside the very same hospital because today was her first day here as the head of the ER trauma team. She swore she’d never come back here,...47yone door

    A Window of Opportunity

    Set your story within a window of opportunity, when a character finally has the chance to do something.A Window of Opportunity ‘The great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it’The word window came from the Old Norse word vindauga which means ‘wind-eye’.  An opening was cut in the wall in order to allow air in and smoke out.In 1618 a word was invented called defenestration, which means the ‘action of throwing out of a window’. Two Catholic deputies were tossed out of a window in a castle in Prague by Protestant radicals. This incident sparked off the Thirty Years’ War.In Emily ...47yone door

    Incarnations of a Woman Made Real

    Isobel stood at the mouth of a vast desert.She could hear the waves of the Oasis lapping gently against the shore behind her, and she turned her head away from home. Worth it, she thought, soaking in the sight of the dunes before her. Worth everytwww.onedoor.cching.And she’d given everything to be here-- her crown, her family-- everything just to look upon the earth and see nothing but possibility, feel everything but lack of breath and lack of time. She had no water, no resources, and no sense of smell, but she had her memories of home, and she had a blissful, glorious eternity.“What would you give,” the w...47yone door

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