Gaining Trust
“You do need to come out sometime, y’know” The voice was gentle, a soothing reassurance that everything was okay. It was the softly firm tones of an adult with…
Bucket List
My friend and I were recently watching The Bucket List when the idea for this challenge popped into my head. A bucket list is basically stuff you want to accomplish before you die. You can make a story about trying to complete one or have a list. For example: [*] sleep under the stars [ ] learn another language [ ] fall in love [ ] finish my book list [*] spit off the top of the Empire State building [ ] change someones life for the better [ ] travel to Europe [ ] ride a motorcycle [*] go on a road trip [ ] meet someone famous blah blah blah I'm looking forward to reading everyone's goals, aspirations etc. etc. etc.
Challengers
14 entriesA Conversation With Shay
“Before we die, Shay,” I said to my best friend, “we have to promise each other one thing.” “What?” “We have to go on that European road trip we’ve always…
The Jump
“You will never amount to anything”, he had heard the words many times. Through drunken slurs and angry screams. They had known the future like a fortune…
A Child of Her Own
She had many children. They were with her everyday. She taught them, corrected them, cared for them, then sent them on to the next grade and a new group would…
The Stoop
He put down the pencil. He realized. In the ending of his list, he’d invited death. Within the two-fifths of the page after “_35. See Samuel and Jackie at…
Be Gentle: They Are My Dreams.
Her hands shaking from the palsy that would eventually kill her, she folded the piece of paper in half. She scrawled on the front, _Be Gentle. These were my…
Someone else's bucket
Vic rolled up the tent, and fumbled ineffectually at it, trying to attach it to his backpack with cold-numbed fingers. Vivian said in a bright (brittle?)…
Perils of Being a Dreamer
In the dusty light of the attic, Harmon sat cross-legged, which he really shouldn’t have been doing on account of his knees. Tear after tear made their slow…
Dream Fulfillment Part One (bucket list)
The hotel concierge squinted at my friend, carrying my luggage. I had booked the room for one. I smiled innocently as he handed me my keycards. “I can’t…
Reunion
We had all agreed to meet up. Twenty years ago when we were just kids we had decided to find each other later in life and be the old gang again. We would…
The Fates?
I believe in fate, but not the Disney kind-- I don’t own any glass slippers and I haven’t recently been posioned by an apple. I’m strong. Not like those…
Seven Lists
Here it was, the last item on the list. The last item on the last list. Six lists were plastered to the wall in my single bedroom flat, surrounded by photos…
16: Great Works of Literature
Rianne snatched another book from the shelves and added it to the heavy pile in her arms. A few more and the stack would reach her chin. Behind her, Charlie…
My Bucket List
[ ] Be popular if just for a day [*] Completely Surprise a Girl [ ] Do Something that People will never forget [ ] Die doing something useful [ ] Design a Game…