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offline optimus prime on 2003-05-01 16:57 [#00680223]
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there was a poetry topic not too long ago. i was wondering
if anybody writes short stories, or i suppose into any good
short story writers.

i sometimes write really short, strange ones. my most recent
(yesterday) is here.

even boring angsty teenage stuff will do.


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-01 17:23 [#00680237]
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i have one or maybe more little things, situations or
pictures rather than short stories - but i'll have to
translate it so sorry for the bad english (and the bad
writing too!)... : )

"alice, in the depths of the ocean, was looking up to the
surface... surely, up there, she thought - there, weird
different beings must exist, maybe they can breathe the air
outside...

she thinks she saw one of them once, diving near to her
lair. and maybe it saw her too, maybe it took her for a
monster - anyway he got back to the surface rapidly, didn't
stay for long... would these strange beings be afraid of
her? why?
it let an object drop from its metallic body.... not even a
beautiful or useful object - just a bizarre thing,
hexagonal, hard, with a hole in it. apart from its
provenance, alice didn't see any interest in it: it couldn't
be eaten, nor even being used as a decorative object. why do
they bother with such objects...

she put the weird little object in a shell. she carved the
shell with her nails, just in case she would want to see it
again, and threw it in the pit.
she crept on the sea ground, then climbed upwards the rocks
to the surface, to see what was outside... she took a
glimpse, she wish she could swim to into this hostile
environment to see more than this, but the air was drying
her livid skin, and the sun burning her red eyes... once
again, she crept and swimt back home, slipping in the water
to the comfortable lair of hers, in the abyss. still
pondering a bit about this weird world outside... what kind
of monsters could live in such a hostile place?"



 

offline corngrower from the fertile grounds of Iowa, w (United States) on 2003-05-01 17:29 [#00680240]
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I'm writing a story right now, but it's starting to
get past short... my composition teacher is going to publish
some of it in our college magazine of art and writing, so
that'll be pretty sweet I guess.

I wish I could make a link to get some feedback, anyone tell
me how?


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-01 17:29 [#00680241]
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I guess you barely changed enough data to not plagarize the
little mermaid.


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-01 17:32 [#00680246]
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the little mermaid?
it's not question of a mermaid in the text!! (and i didn't
even read it, i just know the story in the big lines)

a marine creature, she is.


 

offline uzim on 2003-05-01 17:34 [#00680249]
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though ok, it is rather confusing.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-05-01 17:51 [#00680260]
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no i think it's
Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah in Splash



 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-05-01 17:57 [#00680265]
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ugh. SO horrible.


 


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