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Weekly Contest #369
10/29/1929Great Observer The city streets were always busy and Ronan had had about enough of that. He walked every day past them like it was his life mission to never truly finish walking. Chicago had always been such a beautiful city after all. It carried an air of greatness that maintained it’s simplicity enough to not get people go around bothering them. In the 20s it had been everyone’s rage to go to Chicago and sell beer, and the crimes here were definitely worth writing a whole musical about. Now prohibition was over but Chicago was de...
In this desolate town lies a church where lovers reunited marry when their time comes. It’s not accessible by land, only by the vast sea and only if you crash your boat on it. If you safely reach it, the shores will push you directly on the other side of the island as though it was not even there. I’ve been stuck here in this shipwreck ashore alone, my companion has deserted me it appears. I love and lost , like the old poets , but I wish I had not loved at all for then I could forget his face. His politically incorrect face, the kind that b...
Weekly Contest #368
There was once a woman who lived in the south of France, and in those days there were no office jobs so she sculpted for a living. The woman became famous for this and all over the world all kinds of people asked her to make something for them. She was famous for the realism of her sculpting as though she was the creator of nature herself, and for this reason she was especially loved by lovers who wanted their love’s face or body sculpted so they could immortalize each other’s beauty. The woman watched as the years passed and millions of lov...
Weekly Contest #366
It had been 4 years since anyone had seen her roam the town; she had left in search of the city of broken glasses. Perhaps it would be good to let you know that it did not exist, but she believed that it did. And so she went on, and left her family and friends behind. I came upon the town she had left about three summers after, and the town went on without her, but still, there was a boy at the edge of the town who seemed to still hold her memory like one holds a glass of water after not drinking for weeks. I went up to him to ask him, “Oh b...
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