Novel     (Rated: E)
: Blue @ 04-19-13 @ 12:01pm
New addiction, angst, suspense Oppression, boredom, inspiration Variety, imagination Elation Love in written spirit...

The 20k Contest     (Rated: 13+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 02-10-13 @ 10:04pm
I have spent too much time traversing the world to consider many things novel, and yet I find the comfort of being a jaded asshole fitting of that adjective.

Power Fun & Fundraising - Sold Out     (Rated: E)
: Maryann @ 02-10-13 @ 9:51pm
The small child gazed around in astonishment at the amount of novels on the shelves. It was her first time in a library, and she knew it wouldn't be her last.

Beaches     (Rated: E)
: Pat ~Loving Spring Forward! @ 01-30-13 @ 10:11am
This novel inspired her to become a writer. At the tender age of twelve, she fell in love with words and knew her life would be forever changed.

How do you eat your chocolate?     (Rated: ASR)
: Thankful Sonali-6 Years on WDC @ 01-29-13 @ 2:42am
A novel a day keeps boredom at bay!

Tap the Muse     (Rated: 18+)
: wordwan @ 01-19-13 @ 5:17pm
Novel: It was very novel that she choose to write a novel about an ovel that was veiled in love.

Items on the Craft of Writing     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 11-04-12 @ 1:11pm
She invented a novel food in which she had injected a solution to erase wrinkles.

Tap the Muse     (Rated: 18+)
: nix leavenworth @ 09-17-12 @ 1:28am
Cut a rug, I suppose, you suggest and we do/ At 9pm I am jumping up and down with you/ Where just the hour before/ Unsupported, my anger did soar/ Yet oh how you've brought about myself anew!

Copenator's Crew Auction - closed!     (Rated: 13+)
: Steve reviewing today! @ 09-16-12 @ 11:26pm
Support means to uphold. As time does unfold, Life will take it's toll. Raise your voice and call. Praying for help and expecting success. The best support is found in His Son Jesus.

Merry Christmas, but.....     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 09-15-12 @ 12:29am
no need for keys or codes / success waits beyond the next gate / no need for fruitless wishing / your effort will support you / just push it a bit / the gate is not locked /

Words of Legend: An Action/Adv. Contest     (Rated: 18+)
: Yera ~Twelve!~ @ 07-15-12 @ 4:21am
His wings were merely tattered remnants of what once had lifted him high above the rest, for his pride had become his downfall. Now he was nothing but a slave to gravity and to the dust beneath, cursed to wander until the end.

Yera's SciFi/Fantasy Contest     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 07-05-12 @ 4:47pm
Your dream wings are uplifting things; they pull you up and make you soar, above the roar of everyday things.

Wanded     (Rated: 13+)
: Tap @ 05-13-12 @ 5:49pm
He looked into her wet, red eyes and tried to explain. It wasn't the ball that bothered him--it was the chain.

Troublesome Musings     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 05-13-12 @ 12:50am
Being a wrangler is strange. You are toward the top of the talent's chain of command but fall somewhere in the middle of management's. Neither one, though, should involve a Colt .45.

Published Books of WdC Authors Forum     (Rated: 13+)
: Joy @ 05-12-12 @ 7:55pm
He apologized to his stomach for the pain he caused because he went to a chain fast-food place and ate a fish burger with jalapeno and French fries and drank some bitter-tasting soda.

Seasons and Rhythms     (Rated: E)
: Diane @ 03-05-12 @ 9:39am
"You can't bottle up grief," he warned, putting his arm on her shoulder. "Everything has its seasons and rhythms. Like the tides, it will sweep you away, but it will also fling you back on the beach to make another fist at your life."

Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 02-28-12 @ 9:46am
She picked a crushed plastic bottle out of the garbage and blew into it to make it expand back to its normal condition for later use. As she did so she thought, Life on the streets is the greatest teacher.

Sound of Music shop     (Rated: E)
: eyestar~ @ 12-16-11 @ 9:53am
Tea shops and toy shops, shops full of candy. Gift shops and Bake shops, everything handy. Shops full of shoppers who spend til they drop, wishing that Santa really had a shop! When the til rings! When the bill comes, it may be a shock! ...

Music to Their Ears     (Rated: ASR)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 11-12-11 @ 2:19pm
I keep returning to this city for its shop talk: the debate on whether or not film is dead, how to create great effects on a tiny budget and which producers to not tick off. I hate so much about this place, but hearing this chatter is comforting.

Stepping Into the Dark     (Rated: 13+)
: Felicitus @ 09-01-11 @ 6:55pm
The Inner Garden - that place at the back of your mind where seeds carelessly sewn grow into maleficent weeds or sparkling blooms, left untended they intertwine until indistinguishable; when tended becomes a backdrop for all that grows outside.

Olympia 2020     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 07-31-11 @ 11:07pm
Reina tiptoed into the garden, careful to avoid the cavorting lovers dashing naked through the gladiolas. She just hoped that the person she was meeting could truly help her purge this decadence from the planet.

Paper Doll Gang Blog City     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 06-11-11 @ 9:41am
She imagined her life without her garden, now in bloom with red carnations, and she shook her head, deciding not to move.

The Jester     (Rated: E)
: Sum1 @ 06-11-11 @ 7:51am
Like ants crawling from their hill, the bubbles spilled over the bottle top. Who'd have thought Mento's would do this to Diet Coke?

Spill Is a Word.     (Rated: E)
: jblackgloves number 35. @ 05-06-11 @ 8:10pm
1774240. hope this is what you were hoping to receive. Thank you for having this part of WDC. cubby Spill is a Word. 1774240

Flight of the Fallen Sparrow     (Rated: E)
: Thankful Sonali-6 Years on WDC @ 04-12-11 @ 11:20am
Don't spill beans. They're impossible to gather back.

All This Useless Beauty     (Rated: GC)
: ~unicornsong 12 years wdc! @ 04-12-11 @ 3:54am
The wine spilled over the tablecloth and my yellow dress staining both a dark red. An acrid odor rose to my nostrils. It was old and ruined anyway.

Hello to crystal goblets...     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 04-11-11 @ 10:38pm
Ink spills on rice paper make the dragon grin at the artist drawing it.

Let's help each other grow!-Forum     (Rated: E)
: Thankful Sonali-6 Years on WDC @ 03-29-11 @ 5:55pm
Consider the value, not the price.

Dew Drop Inn     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 03-29-11 @ 3:39pm
He felt the texture of the new price tag between his fingers before he stuck it to the side of the showcase and snickered. What a sour trick it was going to be on his customers!

Money, Money, Money     (Rated: 13+)
: Thankful Sonali-6 Years on WDC @ 02-10-11 @ 11:07am
The best china is for guests, the family gets the rest!

pastoral meditation     (Rated: E)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 02-07-11 @ 3:47am
translucent, the finest porcelaine / many corners of the blue planet / boast delicate human hands / molding clays to be glazed / into bowls and goblets / most of us call bone china--- / where are the skeletons?

Genreflections     (Rated: 18+)
: Kate=Secret Pal ~ 1063838 @ 02-06-11 @ 10:58pm
"Fool! Why did you have to set the table with mother's heirloom china! With that brain matter blown all over it, we'll have to bury it, along with mother!"

Short Shots: Official Contest     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 02-06-11 @ 8:05pm
With morbid animosity, he yanked the tablecloth off, causing the good china crash into shards on the floor. That was when she drew her Glock.

jailhouse blues     (Rated: 18+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 01-13-11 @ 4:00pm
Only birds understand the chatter of the wind and rain; I merely doze off, dazed by the serenity bathing my ears!

The Writer's Cramp     (Rated: 13+)
: spidey @ 01-13-11 @ 11:04am
The morning sun brought the chatter of early birds, singing songs of hope dawning upon the waking world.

15 for 15 Contest --- Closed     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 01-12-11 @ 11:31pm
Among guests, party chatter, and kitchen clatter, isn't it nice to catch the admiring gaze and dewy eyes of someone you love?

NOVAcatmando's P.loggia     (Rated: 13+)
: NOVAcatmando @ 12-23-10 @ 11:04am
mysteries of Yule / how old embers reappear / and who spiked the punch

Meeple's Fun & Games Activity     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 12-22-10 @ 11:08am
At our granny's home/ time to bring out the punch bowl/ to make Santa dance.

Pretend You're Someone Else (Chap. 3)     (Rated: 18+)
: KAT26/Adrian--Published! @ 12-17-10 @ 10:52pm
Just becomes no one understands you, does not make you an ARTIST.

Yucca Sky Ballet     (Rated: E)
: Coal @ 11-22-10 @ 3:16pm
Forgive the Artist, who, unwilling to conform, splashes color with ignorance and reckless abandon, who so caustically taints the order of the land. (in other words oops on the last post)

Bringing back the Buffalo     (Rated: 13+)
: Coal @ 11-22-10 @ 3:01pm
Jeek slowly turned in the saddle and drew down a jaundiced eye. "Is that a whistle for me, my donkey or my girl?." Markey shot a glance at all three just before the tobacco wad smacked him in the forehead.

A Soul Adrift     (Rated: 13+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 10-30-10 @ 6:48pm
"So what do you think of his skills as an artist?" "He has room to grow. On an emotional level, though, I've never seen so much sadness in one place before. Who knew mourning could be expressed so deeply with a Leica?"

obsession     (Rated: 18+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 10-30-10 @ 6:53am
In the iridescent sliver of moonlight an invisible bat followed the salt as it rained over his shoulder, warding off the evil spirits of this dark Halloween. His troubles had just begun.

Shelley - Your Name An Acrostic     (Rated: E)
: Steve reviewing today! @ 10-30-10 @ 6:25am
Salt flavors our meat. All too often coats our arteries. Leaves us with high blood pressure. Then we have to take Lipitor! Salt, gotta love it!

Tap the Muse     (Rated: 18+)
: Ada -Lyn @ 10-05-10 @ 7:09pm
The salt of tears falling with no sound on the last breath of our dying love.

Belated B'day Excuses: 200 wd contest     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 09-30-10 @ 6:24pm
This looking back, at times, turns me to salt.

Juice's Spooktacular Raffle     (Rated: E)
: jraf @ 09-07-10 @ 3:29am
A funny thing time is, isn't it? I spent ten years playing softball, working hard to make my father proud, but it only took ten seconds to erase all that work when I ruined my leg and my dreams of being the first woman big-leaguer.

Duckies for All Seasons Raffle - Closed     (Rated: E)
: Silva Shado @ 09-06-10 @ 7:57pm
Ten yellow duckies all in a row, swimming across the pond in moon's glow. Suddenly, they turned their heads towards the grassy park and scattered at the sounds of a mean old dog's bark.

Weathered Developments     (Rated: 13+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 09-04-10 @ 11:33am
It had been ten hours since I joined my classmates in the basement of the Primera Casa building, and my water was starting to run low. It was time to hide it.

Angel Product Reviews     (Rated: ASR)
: Joy @ 09-02-10 @ 1:47pm
Happy Tenth Birthday, Writing.com! May you be around ten million years from now!

Through the Eyes of a Child     (Rated: ASR)
: jraf @ 08-28-10 @ 12:57am
I smiled as he fell to one knee. For the longest time, I had wondered when he would ever pop the question. "Let's..." he murmured, lifting his head, "...go now my laces are tied!"

A Primer to Roommates     (Rated: E)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 08-22-10 @ 2:35am
I sat and drew stick figures in the margins of my notebook when the page cut through the professor's lecture. "Everyone please report to Shelter A or otherwise make your way underground." I'm glad I filled my water bottle before going to class.

A Fisherman's Tale     (Rated: ASR)
: jraf @ 08-22-10 @ 2:17am
Once there was a page / Who sought to be a mage. / The problem was / He's doomed because / He certainly is no sage.

A Little Luck     (Rated: E)
: Connieann @ 08-13-10 @ 1:38pm
After getting into my car, I opened the notebook to the first page and, written there in bold printed letters, was the little girl's shocking cry for help.

Letter To Pen Browning     (Rated: 13+)
: Joy @ 08-04-10 @ 8:55pm
Just luck the old book survived with pages yellowing, a paper record of an old love affair, its memory acting like serum in his veins.

Dragon Shower     (Rated: 13+)
: BBWOLF Turns 24 on 6/3 @ 08-04-10 @ 8:11pm
The Past can Harbor some dark secrets. Sometimes the truth isn't known, until it's too late.

Take Your Son to Work     (Rated: E)
: BBWOLF Turns 24 on 6/3 @ 07-28-10 @ 2:58pm
Can a child on the harbor get into trouble for harboring a thief? I don't know.

True Grit Scene Spoof     (Rated: 13+)
: BBWOLF Turns 24 on 6/3 @ 07-28-10 @ 2:57pm
A man and his horse watch as their boat enters the harbor, so that they can get off.

A Monster Soldier's Christmas     (Rated: 13+)
: BBWOLF Turns 24 on 6/3 @ 07-28-10 @ 2:55pm
Two soldiers at the harbor watch their boat come in.

Philbis Duckworth and the Mutilated Cows     (Rated: 18+)
: ~unicornsong 12 years wdc! @ 07-24-10 @ 3:18pm
Safely docked in the harbor people gather beach blankets and sand-filled tote bags with one hand. In the other is evidence of a wild ride.

Duckies for All Seasons Raffle - Closed     (Rated: E)
: Silva Shado @ 07-24-10 @ 12:20pm
People on shore marveled at the sight rolling into the harbor. Thousands upon thousands of little yellow duckies rode the waves to shore.

Slider Exchange     (Rated: 13+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 07-23-10 @ 11:56pm
I harbor doubts that Americans (and others) truly understand the multifaceted aspects of race and racial conflict anymore. The question is, did they ever?

Fog     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 07-14-10 @ 11:58pm
The ocean rocks the boats, eager to touch the hands of the fishermen who still wait at the harbor.

a little bit of poetry contest     (Rated: ASR)
: ridinghhood--p. boutilier @ 07-14-10 @ 2:53pm
I have been in a slump---but slowly slumping out of it!!!

NOVAcatmando's P.loggia     (Rated: 13+)
: NOVAcatmando @ 07-05-10 @ 2:43pm
she slumped her way through the brambles and splashed through the puddles looking for the secret garden....

Get the Picture!     (Rated: ASR)
: Thankful Sonali-6 Years on WDC @ 07-05-10 @ 1:44am
Slump rhymes with jump and pump. But all the couplets I can think of now are corny, so I'll leave it to your imagination to create the verse!

Daily Issues Dead in the Water     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 06-21-10 @ 2:17pm
Dad raised his left hand as he slumped forward. “He has to be kidding!” Mom said as she grinned. But Dad wasn't kidding.

Scattered leaves with poetic imprints     (Rated: 18+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 06-20-10 @ 9:21am
Driven by solitude or revenge, it was all the same. He could tell no one the inner secrets stored so carefully in his heart.

The Heart of October (II)     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 06-20-10 @ 12:04am
Upon my return from London, I had a new drive to help the men of the world keep their careers in tact. I was okay with this role, as being just out of the spotlight is perfect for a mastermind such as myself.

Poetry     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 06-06-10 @ 2:06pm
She drives through her old street, recalling that dreadful summer they sold away her favorite home as she glances at the three crab apple trees in bloom by the mailbox.

Gathering     (Rated: 13+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 06-06-10 @ 12:35pm
After my friend's acrimonious divorce, I took a trip to London to clear my head. Someone dared me to "take a bathe in the Thames", and the brisk water was exactly what I needed to let go of the years of tension building in my muscles.

Apogalacteum     (Rated: E)
: ridinghhood--p. boutilier @ 06-06-10 @ 12:15pm
Dolphins bathed in B/P oil---MamaGaia cries oil-slicked tears.

Duckies for All Seasons Raffle - Closed     (Rated: E)
: Silva Shado @ 06-05-10 @ 5:25pm
My husband bathed me in sweet words of love and encouragement. Though the day looked bleak, my heart felt light, my mind washed clean of all negative thoughts.

Bear Drives into Tollbooth - Humor     (Rated: E)
: Wordsmitty @ 05-21-10 @ 8:44pm
May you bathe in the sunshine, dance in the rain, fly with the wind, drift with the clouds, and snore with the thunder (so no one knows!).

SHERRI'S SIZZLING SUMMER AUCTION CLOSED     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 05-21-10 @ 11:21am
Sumi-e: Ink strokes bathe on rice paper, musing on the tilted tree by the bridge.

Taking Control of Your Education     (Rated: E)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 05-16-10 @ 2:13pm
It seems that no matter in which life I find myself, I always trade one swamp for another, with each instance of helping a guy getting progressively more controversial...and dangerous.

Flight of Love - 1st Revise - WIP     (Rated: GC)
: Silva Shado @ 05-16-10 @ 10:03am
I'm swamped at work, glad to leave for the day and go home where I'm swamped with love from my husband.

The Strand     (Rated: E)
: ridinghhood--p. boutilier @ 05-09-10 @ 11:11am
Brigid chose to live at the edge of the swamp. Those who valued her blacksmithing skills happily traveled the Tamiami Trail for her services.

Irish Verse Forms Description     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 05-07-10 @ 1:05pm
The swamp knows no class or distinction, and it can fold its arms around those who escape from death...or life.

Forever Tormented     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 04-18-10 @ 10:50am
I soon learned never to trust the silence that emanated from the Olympian's house. If anything, it was a forewarning of his wife's fury and another failed attempt to get him to the hospital.

A Dewdrop-a-Day for April     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 04-17-10 @ 11:21pm
Silence floated in the air like an autumn leaf, making him see everything for the first time.

Chew On This     (Rated: E)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 03-28-10 @ 6:18pm
And then came the bombshell: Oracle Software Company had hired an Olympian. That meant he would move to my neck of the woods, and his wife would be in tow. Why do I think this is a divorce in the making?

The Ghost of Rowan Oak     (Rated: ASR)
: Joy @ 03-25-10 @ 4:59pm
The oracle intoned in his rich tenor voice: “You built all the traps that you fell into. Now, learn to build other things instead.”

rambling ruwth reviews     (Rated: ASR)
: ruwth @ 03-24-10 @ 8:36pm
What am I doing here? I am shopping for someone who is shopping for a review of an article and will post a request in my forum.

The Real Versus the Ideal     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 03-20-10 @ 11:07pm
Putting his shopping out of my mind, I shifted my attention to other matters, including getting another draft of my polyamory script completed and perfecting a recipe for goat cheese ravioli.

Per Nonno, Con Amore     (Rated: 13+)
: Joy @ 03-18-10 @ 12:14am
Store windows stare at me with wide open eyes, while exposing their seductive goods. Funny! Even shopping is encouraged through flirting.

Winter Invasion Concluded     (Rated: E)
: Wordsmitty @ 02-26-10 @ 8:38pm
Sprinkle sprinkle lots of snow See how furious the wind does blow Covering all it wants to go Shoveling soon? No, no, no, no!

The Red Wagon     (Rated: 13+)
: ~unicornsong 12 years wdc! @ 02-26-10 @ 2:15pm
snow outside windows / in other places. I basked / under early spring sun

Sci-Fi Shenanigans     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 02-26-10 @ 12:47am
So I spent much of my spare time watching the young man snow women as he went beard shopping in an attempt to ignore his true desires. I'm starting to think he's doing this because I told him not to pursue his cast mate.

Panama     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 02-25-10 @ 6:47pm
Big snow pocketed in windows, covering the curves of far hills, a generosity high with white on white; epic weather, this year.

between mother and son     (Rated: 18+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 02-23-10 @ 3:01am
A cloud covers my heart, fluffy novocaine; the suffering of a starless night lessened, though dreams of a falling star have vanished like Cupid's arrow, when I, in a moment of stupor, did not feel its thwang and quickly place myself in its path....

The Blazing Cauldron     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 02-22-10 @ 10:58pm
When it came down to it, though, my mind was getting clouded by all these guys deciding I need to be their romantic sounding boards. I've yet to figure out how to tell them I'm not.

Scattered Bits     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 01-17-10 @ 8:14pm
When I gave it some more thought, though, I realized why he'd moon over his castmate. Unlike many of the actors in Hollywood today, he had a rugged masculine look that also made him look like an everyday sort of guy.

Scattered leaves with poetic imprints     (Rated: 18+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 01-17-10 @ 11:56am
Where is the silver shimmering of moonlight that guides my heart across life's labyrinth of crossed ships and unrequited love? It's shadows follow me like a timid puppy who doesn't bark when I fall over a rock waiting patiently in my path...

The Quill Awards     (Rated: ASR)
: Andrew C. - Congrats new mods! @ 12-05-09 @ 9:08pm
Sometimes in life we bowl gutter balls, but we need to throw a few gutters to be warmed up enough to get a turkey, eh?

The Real Versus the Ideal     (Rated: 18+)
: Elisa the Running Stik @ 11-28-09 @ 1:13pm
I should have known his real feelings months earlier when he described the competition for the object of his affection as a turkey.

Duckies for All Seasons Raffle - Closed     (Rated: E)
: Silva Shado @ 11-28-09 @ 10:33am
The children gathered around the table, anxious to eat the turkey they had smelled cooking all day.

seventeen hours and five minutes     (Rated: 13+)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 11-26-09 @ 3:43pm
I am a fowl, yet unfeathered friend, though I should hate you all for hunting my turkey brethren. Would humans like to be bred, stuffed and killed, uniquely for Zeus' whim of a festive table? That was once known as human sacrifice. It was abolished.

One Night in Margaritaville     (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 11-24-09 @ 7:02pm
The turkey, a happy bird -metaphysically speaking-, sees bleeding hearts and says "Look, a parade!"

in the belly of the beast     (Rated: E)
: Joy @ 11-19-09 @ 10:28pm
She crawls like an anaconda to cut a path in the fertile soil of his imagination to make him forget his hunt for monkeys.

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