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Weekly Contest #58
Family. All the descendents of a common ancestor. According to Google, there’s no emotional value. No connection, other than blood and maybe appearance. Yet it’s so much more. It’s Christmas together on that snowy day. It’s staying up at New Years, just to welcome the first second of another year. It’s birthdays, anniversaries, and even more. It’s the day to day. The break ups, the fall-in-loves, the bad grades, the good grades. It’s the speeches and awards, the track meets and sports games. Even just the I’m hungry’s. All of that is f...
Weekly Contest #57
Late at night, a pen skritched and scratched at a ragged paper. It's edges were torn and tattered, splotches of tea spattered across the paper. Ink formed lines of pure black, which turned to letters, destined to become words then sentences. The silent night was filled with the scribbles of ink and paper. A crow croaked breaking the steady rhythm of scritching. The candlelight made the mood even more solemn. Its constant flicker made shadows dance in a haunting way. The ink made a picture of hidden, expected death. It was a will. One s...
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