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Creative Writing

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A woman with wavy brown hair in a black leather jacket and mustard top stands before a corrugated metal wall.

Creative WritingEveryone Should Start a Band“Everyone should start a band. You’ll begin by gathering some friends to meet in a dingy classroom and start practice on a drum set with busted heads and an amp with crunchy outputs. You’ll be bad at first. Or maybe not terrible, but awkward and too loud. But it will be fun to make noise and write songs that aren’t so serious, and maybe a few that are. You’ll laugh harder than you have in years. You’ll leave practice looking forward to the next one. You’ll play a show …”Briana Harris · Nov 14, 2022 Creative WritingThis is How the World EndsYou never really believe you’re going to wake up one morning and find that the world you knew is gone.Willow Summers · Sep 16, 2013 Creative WritingFiction: The Wind Sweeps Over the PrairiePa said I could marry anybody, as long as I had permission first.Saraiya Ruano · May 22, 2013

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Creative WritingFiction: The Venus De Milo Takes a FallHow do you hide a body in a chocolate shop? Creatively.Kristen Marten · Apr 15, 2013

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Creative WritingThe Middle RoadOver the past eight years I have check cattle in and out at the livestock auction whenever monetary need arises or I find myself longing to spend time with bovines.Sharon Graham-Ellis · Mar 27, 2013

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Creative WritingFor You the War is Over – Part 2Sarge was startled out of his reminiscent dream by the sound of his cell door closing.Zachary Martinez · Feb 25, 2013

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Creative WritingFor You the War is Over – Part 1The dining area smelled like ammonia. It was nauseating.Zachary Martinez · Jan 18, 2013