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Picture it & Write is a weekly creative writing prompt. We invite people to join in by commenting with a work of fiction to accompany the image; it doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation).
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They tell me otters rape baby seals. They tell me my uncle lied to me, catfished me. They tell me squirrels are just rats with fuzzy tails. These statements, these “truths” do not work for me. Knowing them does not make me happy; knowing them does not affect my daily life. And so I intentionally forget that any of it is true. I design the world I want to live in. I create a world of magic and illusion. Everyone chooses what to believe. They choose whether or not to believe in religion, Fate, magic, vampires, the end of the world. I choose to think that squirrels have nothing to do with rats.
–Eliabeth Hawthorne
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Sometimes the difference between imagination and reality can be hard to define. Open the door to imagination and you may find all sorts of glorious and terrifying things, you are only limited by your own creative thinking. However, when you turn around and look at reality, it can be just as glorious and just as terrifying. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
Oh I love that last line. I had the strangest flashback to high school for some reason. Thanks for leaving a comment.
They call it dreamscape; a way to control, using only the most rigorously tested pharmaceuticals, the dreams that you dream at night. During the company trials, over ninety percent of those tested said that their dreams had been perfect, the best dreams they ever had. As for the other ten percent, the unusual reports circling on the internet, it should be remembered that dreamscape hacks into the part of the brain involved in deepest desires bringing what is there to light. Some people, it must be said, have desires that may be outside the norm, desires that they choose to ignore rather than embrace. The man who complained about his night of passion with the inhabitants of a coral reef… must realise that that says more about him than about that product.
Yipes, that gave me chills.
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Avoiding Errands
Dave @ParkInkSpot
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Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.
My imagination scampers away to find a hiding spot when I sit down to write. I know that it’s lurking there, under the bed, during those half-awake lucid moments when my dreams still seem close enough to touch. It hisses at me when I peek.
Last week, I won another “writing challenge,” good for me. What a great excuse to not write, “I’ve got to judge the next one.”
The wizard doesn’t want you to see what’s behind the curtain. He’s a fraud, you know, peeking out in his underoos.
Don’t tell anybody.
Love the Wizard of Oz reference. Thanks for contributing this week.