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I was watching a basketball game on television and during a commercial break, there he was! Starkist Charlie. I said, "Oh jeez, not this knob again." My son, home from college on break, said, "Whaaaat.....??"
Charlie was before my son's time, and that led me to wax rhapsodic about how some of the most successful ad campaigns of the 1970's played upon the worst aspects of human nature. Worse, most were aimed at children. When I had finished foaming at the mouth about it all, my son advised me to write it down. Rgr that.
Low Self-Esteem:
Starkist Charlie, the bespectacled, beret-wearing tuna whose greatest desire, and seemingly only goal in
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Buy It!
I was watching a basketball game on television and during a commercial break, there he was! Starkist Charlie. I said, "Oh jeez, not this knob again." My son, home from college on break, said, "Whaaaat.....??"
Charlie was before my son's time, and that led me to wax rhapsodic about how some of the most successful ad campaigns of the 1970's played upon the worst aspects of human nature. Worse, most were aimed at children. When I had finished foaming at the mouth about it all, my son advised me to write it down. Rgr that.
Low Self-Esteem:
Starkist Charlie, the bespectacled, beret-wearing tuna whose greatest desire, and seemingly only goal in
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Literature
The Writer
A golden eclipse was emblazoned upon the back of his eyelids. The crisp, morning light, an event horizon on the surface of his vision. He found it so peaceful to lie here; watching the fire dance on the skin of his eyes, to see the distortion such a simple veneer could have on life. Everything was different depending on perspective. A certain paradigm is an important thing; it discerns life or death, true or false, love or hate. A simple problem can be interpreted, and solved, in several different ways. Untying the Gordian Knot is either a complex puzzle or a simple chopping manoeuvre.
John Tullock admired and cherished this, as it meant in
Collection of Stories to Read Later
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Collection of Stories to Critique Later
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Literature
Aphrodite
Lightning crackled in seven hues across Serpentine's faceted flight visor. The steering yoke buffeted against her thighs with the eastward winds. She gripped the stick with a gloved hand, and reached up to grab the speaking tube.
"Doc! Whatever you're going to do, do it fast!" she screamed into the brass funnel, "the Everstorm will chew us up if we stay here much longer!"
As if to prove her point, the Aphrodite lurched like a kicked-over watering can against the storm-wracked winds. The starboard rotors missed a beat, and Serp's stomach jumped into her throat. It was a long way down into the Maw, and she was flying without backup pinions; t
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"I have thirty-two teeth. Each one of those teeth is handcrafted from an enamel-resin polymer. This substance was synthesised in a specialised laboratory. I am the bastard child of a corporate monster and I am loathed the world over because of my inimitable perfection."
Salem wasn't beautiful. His left eye was lazy, rolling off to gaze at the basalt Buddha that sat fat and undignified beside the pillar in the centre of the room. This junk. It distracted him. With overlong fingers he picked up an inch-tall statuette and examined it with a surgeon's indifference before twisting the little rock god until its neck cracked.
"Is this what
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Rad the Delightfully Bad - A Lit Contest
:new:Due to weather issues (aka, Irene), this contest's deadline has been extended to Monday Sept 5th at midnight CST.:new:
A first sentence is a first impression. If it's off, then the rest of the story will be out of beat. And if it's bad enough, then that first sentence might dissuade a reader to call a cease-and-desist right there and not read a single word more.
Unless that first line is so terribly and utterly bad that it is actually perfect-prose gold.
Each year, Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is held to discover the single worst opening sentence imaginable. The site proclaims:
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest challenges entrants
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Prompt 8: The Beginning!
:new: There's only THREE DAYS left to enter this prompt, and with a lonesome five entries withering in the garden bed of the gallery, the best way you can spend them is by adding a creative seed of your very own. Go go go!
The office is closed, the workers have gone home and all that's left is the photocopier, thinking wisftully about the hot action she just got. That's right--contest season at transliterations (https://www.deviantart.com/transliterations) has ended once again, and it's time to move on to matters which, although just as important, aren't as financially rewarding. But piffle, I say! The path to salvation lies in inspiration! And as writers, we should only have the d
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