An ending
He had shot him in the woods, and every day, for seventy years, he remembered. The weight of metal in his hand as he lifted, fired. The explosion, the recoil…
This Is It
It's all over. The end is near, or it appears to be inevitable. You ask yourself the all-important question: Was I a good person? For this challenge I would like entrants to write me something on these lines; a character looking back at the sum total of their accomplishments and actions. How do they feel about their life? Who will remember them and why? Was it a life worth living? Was it a death worth dying? Make it as painfully honest as you can. There's no time for dishonesty here. It would be a terrible thing for this character to face death with a lie in their heart, would it not? You have one month; I wish you all the best of luck.
Challengers
7 entriesA Dreadful Nothingness
No, I do not remember what came before. I do not know what will happen after. It is self-evident to me that it is what occurred in between that matters, yet…
Let Me Open My Eyes Again
‘I’m gonna die.’ It was almost humorous as I thought it. All the times I had wondered how I was going to die, what I would say, who I would call, who I would…
Disaster
A river of blood flows from the knife wound in my side. There is chaos outside as people steal from me. These loyal subjects of mine were traitourus swine and…
Mankato
The crowd of white men was louder and more repulsive than he expected. As he was being yanked forward towards the scaffolds, May Hoo Way Wa briefly shut his…
Gospel
A man sits alone on the steps of a demolished church, surrounded by ruin, ash raining around him. A man of God was he, but a man of virtue? No. Divorced…