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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:51 pm
Restating the Title...✍
❝The current contest period is from January 22nd to February 28th. Winners will be announced on March 1st. ❞
In Burn, there's always some sort of contest going on. Usually, it involves tekteking, bumping or random-number generating in an almost religious fashion, or being the first to post on a specific page. Only rarely do we have contests that involve writing. I've decided to create an ongoing writer's contest for those who are looking for a prompt and the opportunity to earn 20k for their literary skills. Every month, there will be a new challenge and a new chance to earn 20k. So get ready to write!
✎Introduction || Rules || Current Prompt || Past Prompts and Winners
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:00 pm
Rules...✍
1. Follow Gaia Tos, Rules and Guidelines, Burn Guild Rules, and these rules.
2. If the current challenge includes special limitations, only entries following such limitations will be considered.
3. Late entries will not be considered.
4. All copyrights to any material posted will remain the property of the author. Winning stories shall be archived in one of my journal posts.
5. If winners do not accept prize trades within 3 months of the month they won, the prize shall be considered forfeit and the trade cancelled.
6. These rules can be subject to change, so be sure to check them every once in a while.
Introduction || ✎Rules || Current Prompt || Past Prompts and Winners
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:05 pm
Current Prompt...✍
Write a story about a writer who falls in love with one of their characters. There is no word limit, but please use BBC coding to make your story easy to read.
Introduction || Rules || ✎Current Prompt || Past Prompts and Winners
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:06 pm
Past Prompts and Winners...✍
August: Write a drabble about something related to any kind of depression. It must be exactly 100 words.
September: Write a short story about a dragon or dragons and love. There is no word limit, but please use BBC coding to make your story easy to read.
December: Write a story about somebody who bought what they thought was a decorative urn, but found ashes inside it when they got it home. Tell me what happens to them.
February: Write a story about a writer who falls in love with one of their characters. There is no word limit, but please use BBC coding to make your story easy to read.
Introduction || Rules || Current Prompt || ✎Past Prompts and Winners
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:22 am
I watched slowly and painfully as the heart monitor grew a straight line. No. This can’t be happening. I’m just now going to middle school, she can’t leave me! I slammed my hands on the bed frustrated. I cried and cried. For the next two years my wardrobe became dark hues and blues. I kept my feelings to myself and cried by myself. I became lonely. I shut my family and friends out. She would miss so much that a mother shouldn’t miss. It came time for eighth grade and I realized she’s not gone, she’s there, watching over us.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:11 pm
My submission:
The raw edge of my aching finger nail is infinitely more interesting in the face of your destroyed expression. The shuffling of your feet, the twicthing of your fingers as you try to decide how to move in the face of my rejection only makes me more resistant. I don't want to see your face and I don't want you to feed me lines about some idealistic future. If you start to spout about your broken heart, I'll only feel I must interject and we'll start all over.
So, let's just stop. Let's admit that there could be something better.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:17 am
Had he known, he wouldn’t have let it happen. But it was too late, far too late, for him to even come close to doing anything about it. He was not the master of time, he could never reverse what has been done. Even as he sits in the darkened bedroom, the bed where they used to make love, he could only stare at the infinite abyss of red-wood flooring, the tears slipping from his eyes and down his cheeks. She was gone, the bullet through her cold heart. It was a shame he wasn’t the one who did it.
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I checked it on Microsoft Word, 100 exact. c:
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:30 am
she's locked away in another gloom
my tortured lullaby
i hear the muffled screams from her room
and the panic in her cry
she's hungry now for the dreaded call
and her angel/demon phones
she's pale and shaking and takes the fall
only i can hear her groans
entangled up in his web of vow
perfect for her; so wrong
forever mocking the thread of now
eternally his sad song
i'm twisting ghosts
in the satin sheets
of my crystal cave
remembering shards
of the broken life
of my oncetime friend
and i'll never sleep again
i'll never sleep again
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:37 pm
Real Life. The car ride was like any other, I could smell the wet pavement and saw the blur of headlights on the other side of the road. I notice my father starting to swerve. He is having a heat attack. before I can unbuckle my seat belt, we crash into a car on the other side of the road. everything goes black. i cant see. i cant hear. i cant feel. its not dream, just darkness. I wake up, seeing needles in my arm, i ask my mom where my father is. she tells me hes in heaven now.
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:32 pm
I’m trying not to stare at him. Knit one, pearl two. But that’s difficult. I pause for a moment, hiding my gaze, but when I look up, I can see his jaw clench and unclench. Knit one, please talk to me, pearl two. He’s still chewing his cheeks; I know because I can’t stop staring at him. I can’t stop staring because of the way his jaw defines and loosens every time he does it. It’s as though he gets here early just so I can watch him and suffer quietly. Ever week. Knit one, I love you, pearl two.
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:40 am
Today's the last day to enter! Tomorrow, the 10k will be awarded and the winner announced.
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 2:34 pm
Congratulations, Skeletal Dream, for winning the August challenge!
A new prompt is now up! Have at it, everyone!
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:25 am
There's not a lot of time left to enter, people!
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:47 pm
I am a dragon, fierce, fire breathing, feared. Only the most strong will ever hurt me, but never mentally. Flying, floating up to the stars, almost in lip's reach to kiss them all goodnight. Being this massive yet potent reptile helps me to forget when the doctor medicates me and tells me how I should feel. I soar, far away from here. There is hardly any pain here when it is so empty. For my 10th birthday, I should really be 100, I am old and wise, sometimes gentle, but not young. It didn't have to be like this, breathing fire upon you. I love to be a dragon, but ever since I killed you, it's just not the same. I am ever so sorry for your death, but it's nice to see the villagers run from me.
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Irako of the Desert Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:41 pm
Congrats to Their Law for winning the September challenge!
Alright, everybody, a new prompt is up for October. Show me what you've got.
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