Visa, Priceless?  (Rated: ------)
: The Merry Farmer  @ 01-29-12 @ 4:19am
Once to shop was something soft laid against my cheek and the musk of new leather pumps. Now, the incandescence of a monitor burns into my retina, viruses spread no cough, texture and color dubious - at best. Sound of Music shop (Rated: E)
: rajasri  @ 01-01-12 @ 1:15pm
It focuses of shops and their decoration to attract Christmas shoppers and shoppers have a single plea when the bill is presented that if Santa had a shop,however when they remember the fun and frolic they had they come again the next year 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)
: A Decade for a 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. Window Shopping (Rated: 18+)
: Christine Marie Drisco @ 11-12-11 @ 1:45pm
A new day finds me wanting to shop
Walking through artist stalls, I browse
A simplicity so enjoyable
As my senses become aroused
© 2011 ONE WEEK WONDER CLOSED (Rated: ASR)
: Joy  @ 09-02-11 @ 12:17am
I can set up shop anywhere as long as I have a pen, a note-book, or better yet, my laptop, my eyeglasses, a soft cushion, a sandwich, a bottle of water, a chocolate bar...Wait a minute, I didn't know I was so high-maintenance. 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+)
: A Decade for a 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. Alt (Rated: 13+)
: 4thPseudonym @ 07-07-11 @ 1:21pm
The scent brought realization before the sight
of a wonderful garden, well kept and vibrant.
and though indulge in its splendor one naturally might,
today the petals bring memories lonely and distant. 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)
: Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1!  @ 04-12-11 @ 11:20am
Don't spill beans. They're impossible to gather back. All This Useless Beauty (Rated: GC)
: ~unicornsong still noveling  @ 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)
: Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1! @ 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+)
: Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1! @ 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~Rune Writing & Reading  @ 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. The Artist (Rated: E)
: Grandpa @ 12-10-10 @ 6:11pm
they come in many shapes and sizes.
Oils, watercolors, chalk.
Newspapers, poetry, dissertations.
The Artist is everywhere! 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+)
: A Decade for a 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 - Focused on elephants @ 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+)
: A Decade for a 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)
: A Decade for a 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+)
: BIG BAD WOLF @ 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)
: BIG BAD WOLF @ 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+)
: BIG BAD WOLF @ 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+)
: BIG BAD WOLF @ 07-28-10 @ 2:55pm
Two soldiers at the harbor watch their boat come in. Philbis Duckworth and the Mutilated Cows (Rated: 18+)
: ~unicornsong still noveling @ 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+)
: A Decade for a 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--OccupyNaples  @ 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)
: Smiling Sonali WDC Power #1! @ 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!  The Fabric of My Life (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+)
: A Decade for a 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+)
: A Decade for a 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--OccupyNaples @ 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 WDC 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)
: A Decade for a 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--OccupyNaples @ 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+)
: A Decade for a 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)
: A Decade for a 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.”
Compliments of Freelancer's Lighthouse! (Rated: E)
: 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+)
: A Decade for a 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 still noveling @ 02-26-10 @ 2:15pm
snow outside windows / in other places. I basked / under early spring sun Sci-Fi Shenanigans (Rated: 18+)
: A Decade for a 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+)
: A Decade for a 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+)
: A Decade for a 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. They were A-B-C Delicious... (Rated: E)
: NOVAcatmando @ 01-17-10 @ 7:52pm
in silver surround lonely daughter whispers her story to the moon... 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... Steel Magnolias (Rated: ASR)
: Joy @ 01-17-10 @ 11:18am
Ron moons over Sandie whose heart and soul is only on the last bites of a chocolate-decadence cake. The Quill Awards (Rated: ASR)
: Andrew C. Bowman @ 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+)
: A Decade for a 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. Prelude to a Second Chance (Rated: 13+)
: A Decade for a Stik? @ 11-08-09 @ 1:46pm
All bad jokes aside, I want to voice my concerns about his love (lust?) to someone...but who? Blessed (Rated: 13+)
: NOVAcatmando @ 10-26-09 @ 4:35pm
shadows and banjos / play through the wood’s shifting limbs / seedy tar heels run Meeple's Fun & Games Activity (Rated: E)
: Silva Shado @ 10-25-09 @ 12:47pm
Though I planted the seed, it was everyone else's love and guidance that made the plant grow and blossom. Penelope and the turkey (Rated: E)
: alfred booth, wanbli ska @ 10-25-09 @ 6:57am
Like invisible thoughts, the cones opened up and a tiny yellow powder spilled over the rocks, seeds to be carried, like ideas in a book, along the whims of the autumn wind. Pass the Write-Baton (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 10-24-09 @ 4:35pm
He cuts the melon in half, and scoops the seeds out. No other fruit will be as sweet as this one...ever. 2008; Years Later (Rated: E)
: ~unicornsong still noveling @ 10-12-09 @ 1:57pm
fresh pine / scented green needles / poke through snow NOVAcatmando's P.loggia (Rated: 13+)
: NOVAcatmando @ 10-12-09 @ 1:24pm
pine nuts drowning in vinaigrette, held captive by chard, atop radicchio and romaine... Moment (Rated: 18+)
: A Decade for a Stik? @ 10-12-09 @ 1:03pm
Even though the situation is all around terrible, I can't help but snicker when I think about his pining for his castmate. His last name makes a great pun in this situation. Pass the Write-Baton (Rated: 18+)
: Joy @ 10-11-09 @ 6:13pm
She found a dry pine with roots, hauled it home, and cared for it as if it were alive. What do you know? Faith can really move mountains. In her garden, the pine came alive and flourished, turning into a gorgeous Christmas tree. Total Displayed: 100 | 
Self Deletion: Allowed
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