Personal Writing

  1. Star: My first-ever attempt at a 'scary' story

    “Bubble bubble, troll- ” The little girl paused in stirring her make-believe witches brew. “Ohh… Double toil…” She started only to have her new friend, Star, correct her again. “Double bubbles- Ok, ok, sorry! Double, double toil and trouble,” she nodded her head to emphasize each word. “Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” She went back to stirring the imaginary stew in the rusty bucket, laughing at the silly words. Star said all young witches made Eye of Newt, and everyone who was anyone knew...
  2. Thursday purgatory

    The drive in to work was almost pleasant this morning. There was very little traffic, only two red lights, and the security guard at the entrance blessed me. I was an entire forty-five minutes early to work- forty five minutes earlier than when I normally got to work. My dogs decided they needed to be let out at 5am; and entire thrity minutes earlier than what my alarm was set for. And that's how my day started... I get to my office door, only to find someone had changed the key lock...
  3. A prophetic message, or discursive dream? You decide.

    I hade a bizarre dream last night (Saturday night). I was driving a car down a dark street, approaching a three-way intersection. I flipped the left turn-signal and came to a stop, checking both ways before completing the left turn. The next thing I know I'm in an enormous gymnasium standing at the edge of a pool, posed to dive. The walls were blinding white. There was a crowd of people behind me, and a 16 year old looking girl next to me, posed to dive too. I told her she didn't stand a...
  4. Once barefoot, twice lucky: A non-fiction story

    Honestly, no one ever knowns when they're going to face the possibility of death, let alone face it twice. While on my first deployment in 2006, my ship visited Split, Croatia. It was our first port, and it would be the first foreign country I’d ever set foot in. A couple of friends and I signed up for a tour to Krka National Park because it was advertised you could jump from a twenty-foot waterfall into a “bottomless” pool, and swim in the mountain spring-fed waters of River Krka. The bus...
  5. Who got two extra credit points for awesomeness? <-- This girl!

    So that short story I posted in GenFic a few weeks back, I finally got back from my English professor yesterday and although I hadn't expected any grammar corrections, I thought maybe I would get something marked off for structure or for having a run=on sentence or three. But lo and behold- a 12/10 was written in bright green at the top with an arrow ( <-- ), and the words "For being extra awesome! You are a talented writer!" I know it isn't much because it's still early in the semester...
  6. A new pen and an itchy brain

    So lately I've been itching to write. And by itching I mean almost literally. I have plot progress, and I want more, but I can't seem to grasp that next word, that next thing to take it further and make it better. My brain tingles with frustration, and my mouth works to try and form this word. But nothing comes forth, nothing makes sense enough, and so I sit, staring off into space, frustrated. I can see my character Sabby doing everything I want her to do, going with the story (for once in...
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