A Picture Tells 1,000 Words...[WINNERS ANNOUNCED]

[ewagan]

Oook, i know this is short, but here it is. Word count: three hundred something.. sweatdrop

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The staircase was becoming blurry, I could barely see a foot in front of me. Almost there, almost there. I reached a hand out to grab the railing and missed.

Stumbling slightly, I tried to go up a few more steps before collapsing on the staircase. No one will see me here in time. I'll be gone before anyone notices.

The light seem to fade around me. No one will see me here. I'm safe here. There's no one to look for me to kill me, to harm me or to take me away. I'm here, and I'm safe. My eyes closed. I stopped struggling to keep my head up to see if anyone came. No one would come.

I let my head droop on to the carpeted stairs. It was soft and comforting against my cheek. Shadows danced in front of me as I lay there, waiting, just waiting. I felt a tear drip down my face. My hand felt heavy, my head did too. my whole body felt so heavy.

Time passed by, but I didn't have any use for time any more. It made no sense to me now as I lay here and waited for the time to come. I heard many noises, but none made sense to me. When I next opened my eyes, I was looking at a white wall.

The light blinded my eyes. I shut them tightly. I tried to move my hands and toes, but found it impossible. More unintelligible noises were made as I lay there, feeling nothing but a heaviness. Something beckoned me to go to it, to stay with it. My spirits sank when I started to become heavier. I struggled to be free of it.

Slowly, I started to feel lighter and lighter. Soon I felt as if I was floating on a cloud to a far away place where no pain or sorrow existed. A place where there are no more worries. A place where I will have peace. A place where I could finally be free.

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[ewagan]

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[Catch The Stars]

The picture inspired me so much that I had to. xD I'm still writing my entry but I should be done within the next 10 minutes or so. ^_^

[Catch The Stars]

Here is my entry. ^_^ I know it's not what was really expected from a picture like that but the second I saw the picture I immediately had this plot in my head.
Word count 914
It actually didn't take me that long to write either. Of course I wanted to keep writing, but I wanted to make sure that I could keep it under 1,000 words. XD
I also posted it up on storywrite if you would prefer the link.
http://storywrite.com/story/164684

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I gently pushed the front door of the old house open, creaking loudly as it did so. After taking a few deep breaths to calm myself, I slowly took a few steps inside. Everything still smelt the same, just… dustier. I glanced around, able to still see mostly everything even though my only source of light was coming from outside the open door and the dirty windows. I slowly walked into the room on the left, or what I knew it as, the living room.

All of the furniture that I remembered was long gone. However, I could still remember where everything was. To my left used to be a Champaign colored sofa, in front of that was a wooden coffee table that matched the glorious wooden floor. Along with those there were Champaign colored lounge chairs that were across from them. Then all along the walls there used to be various portraits decorating the cream colored walls. There was one lamp in the other corner of the room, just that one because why would you need more light when you had the fire going in the fireplace?

“Daddy! Stoooop i-i-it! I c-c-can’t breathe!” A young girl screamed playfully, her bright green eyes sparkling happily as her father tickled her. Laughing to himself he slowly stopped and let the young girl catch her breath. “Good thing you stopped, I thought Rae might explode because how red she was turning.” The young girl’s mother teased from the sofa, holding a small baby in her arms gently. “Mommy! That’s not very nice.” Rae pouted and looked upside-down from her spot on the floor at her mother. “Neither is you exploding.” Her older sister chimed in from her spot next to her mother, her toddler sister sitting in her lap giggling happily and looking between her father and older sister Rae with big blue eyes.

The tears began to prickle at my eyes, so I immediately left that room, going into the other one down the hall from it. I knew that coming back here was like leaping back into my past but at the same time, I didn’t regret coming here, not yet at least. It was amazing that I still even remembered the layout of the house, let alone everything that used to be on the walls. Somehow, I could still remember though.

I glanced around this room; it looked almost nothing like what it used to. But the torn wallpaper was a reminder that it was the old nursery. The wallpaper was designed to make it look like a person were standing outside, with bright colors that you would only see in spring. I used to spend a lot of time in here.

“Mommy?” Rae asked, as her mother gently put the youngest child in her crib. “Yes?” “When I grow up can I be a mommy too?” She asked, holding onto her mother’s floral dress while staring through the crib bars at the sleeping baby. Her mother’s eyes softened as she looked down at her. “Of course you can, and you’ll be a great mommy.”

I smiled sadly at the old memory, not even realizing that I had been leaning against the worn door frame. ‘A lot has changed since then.’ I thought to myself. I was nothing like the sweet innocent child that I used to be. I no longer dreamed of being a mother or looking for approval in my parents eyes. Not since…

I shook my head to rid myself of those thoughts. I’d just come to take a look around and then leave before the construction crew could come and wreck everything down. There was just one more place I wanted to look before I left.

I walked over to the stair case looking up at it. Then without warning I was thrown into another flash back.

“Why can’t you understand that I’m not her?!” Rae snapped angrily as she turned to run down the staircase. Her mother swiftly chased after her. “You don’t even try! Why must you have to make this so difficult?!” She yelled after her. “If you’d just try to follow what she’s doing then you’d realize that it’s what’s best for you!”

“MOM! I don’t care what she did and I don’t care what you did! I’m not going to let you decide whom I am to marry! I understand what it means and I understand that it’d help our family. But I’m going with who I believe in, and who I want to be with.” The older teen yelled right back. Without giving her mother a chance to say another word, she ran out the front door and into the arms of the man she knew that she would always be with.

The tears slid down my face, and I knew that there was nothing that I could do to stop them. I miss my family, and there was so much I had tried to do to get back with them, but the bond between us was shattered. ‘But….’ I thought with a sad smile, the tears still sliding down my face as I glanced at the ring on my left hand that was somehow still able to sparkle even in the very dim lighting. ‘I’m still with him.’ Taking one last glance around, I swiftly made my way back out the front door, and right back into the arms that held me that night as I sobbed just as I was now.

[Catch The Stars]

+ + Jewel Angel + +

Yes, I have tried. >< It's nearly 500 words. You don't mind if I link it perhaps? Much more neat I say. http://www.freewebs.com/bishies_rule_me/stormymemoriess.htm

I just wanted to comment and say that I LOVED your story. =D I thought it was amazing.

[Mini Muffinxman]

Ok - thanks for all the entrants, I'll begin judging when I get a spare second.

I should hopefully be done in the next 5 days, so watch this space!

[Mini Muffinxman]

Okay - the moment you've all been waiting for: the winners!

In 1st place.... + + Jewel Angel + +
In 2nd place....Poet Of Fire
In 3rd place....Starving Artist

Thank you very much to everyone who entered - all the stories I read were of a very good standard, which made judging extremely hard!

And money shall be on the way to the three above!

[+ + Jewel Angel + +]

@Catch the Stars: Why thank you! >w<~ heart

Wow! I won? =D;; The very first writing contest I ever won on Gaia! >w< Thank you! o3o~ heart