Kylan

Yay! I'm glad everyone is enjoying this! Jared and Clo >> You both mentioned the whole funhouse mirror/Jew bit. I was trying to elaborate on a circus funhouse mirror - ...

Hello there! Can you tell how old they are? Like, are their ages clear? I'm guessing they're in their mid-thirties to forties, but I have a feeling you were intending ...

Hello! I've never been a fan of journal entry stories. They're too real for me. They're too human. If I want to see something real and human I'll look in ...

So I'm not sure if this is any good. I tried to write on a different topic for a change - something other than murder and torture and death and ...

Pointedancer - This is not a poem. This is more like a list. You do nothing to stimulate the senses, you don't bother incorporate any kind of subtlety, and there ...

Purple prose is writing that is so extravagant and flowery and dripping with sentimentality that it detracts from the purpose of your piece. I should know, since I suffer from ...

I agree with Jay said about the first sentence. It's somewhat confusing. Are you shooting for an allusion, symbolism, imagery here? What are you trying to say? Is the blood ...

A Descent into Greeting Card Smiles and Fortune Cookie Sympathies All of us are merely Victorian women sipping tea around dining room sideboards (that are like autopsy tables where Conversation's ...

There are some things in this world I cannot resist. (1) The World War Two era (2) Japan during and after World War Two (3) Anything written by Sam. Therefore ...

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.” - Lord Byron Michel, who had painted his life all over the side of a wall from an aerosol ...

Hello all! I just posted the remaining portion of Fingerpaint in the original thread entry under [part 2 of 2]. I hope you enjoy! Also, Conrad >> Actually, it's not ...

Part 1 of 2 “They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.” - Pablo Picasso Sara had her ...

For Sam, seeing as it's her birthday a quiver-full of piñata birds with intestine strings wadded up like crumpled candy wrappers. delicate wings as fragile as the bones in a ...

I think we should all get thicker skins. -Kylan

First of all, writing a free verse poem does not automatically make it incoherent. Free verse by definition simply means that you're not confined by any poetic rules or laws ...