Please use the following 8 nouns in a poem or short-short of no more than 200 words: asteroid, dwarf, postponement, mania, jackpot, tippler, mode, terrier.

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Pretend that recently you were given this advice: “Don’t get rid of your fat pants.”

Writing something incorporating or (challenging) this advice (welcome or not) in a poem or short story.

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Please write a poem or short-short of no more than 200 words using the following eight words: road, blood, parchment, earplug, feeling, frankincense, mandala, saint.

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It’s Valentine’s Day! <3!
St Valentine, for whom this feast day was attributed, was an early martyr of the Catholic Church.
Truly isn’t love a kind of martyrdom? In fact, is it really love if you are not asked to sacrifice the unthinkable? “Oh, this, I will never do, even for love…!” What have you done for love? What are you willing to do? You can even think of it this way, though it will make some of you squirm: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
When you’re buying the roses and the champagne and the candy and the condoms after work tonight, think about what love rally means. Maybe write your Valentines card after you ponder it a bit.

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I ran into this quote and thought it provoking enough to share and ask that you write about it. Any genre, any opinion, any experience…. W

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” —John Muir

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Write a story about a pirate. You are the pirate or you know the pirate.

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Write a section of dialogue for a story and include a “muted” portion of dialogue.

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