Tag: Writing Challenges
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Chapter VI: A Matter of Existence
“Your frustration is natural.” I turn away from him. Turn my back on the metallic hues of the depot and a faint, disturbing fragrance of warm, summer grass. We approach a hexagonal fountain in the center of the square. “There is a truth in all things, you know. No matter how grand or how miniscule,”…
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Chapter V: Destiny in the Details
There was some audible note. The density of silence beyond the border of my creative space had thickened momentarily, like an active shrug of confirmation to my statement. I had to decide… eventually. I couldn’t stop my mind from turning inward again. Another wayward journey down webbed corridors of veined, gray matter. Nanobots scattering like…
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Chapter III: Revelations Begun
I was a child slave in Ancient Egypt. More specifically, a child slave to the Pharaoh’s first wife, the Queen. She would sit for hours, staring out of a window that wasn’t a window, and worry. She fretted over the state of the Kingdoms, Upper and Lower. Her headdress would denote which of the two…
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Chapter II: More Than One
Somewhere along the journey of reliving myself, of re-birthing and killing myself, the multitude of my lives began to take on more shape and definition. Spotlighting their range of hues for my perusal, as they saw fit. Here, I am a young monk. The epitome of the Renaissance devout in dung-colored robes, a crown of…
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Chapter I: Infinite
It all started when I died. Indisputably, I knew that I was dead. There was no surrealism to take note of, the sensations surrounding my death. The feelings attached in some distant way, still resonated somewhere inside of me. Eternal echoes of knowledge. My bones were no longer corporeal, yet they stood stoically within…
A.C. Melody 