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WRITING OBSTACLE
Describe the exterior and/or interior of an antique shop.
An antique shop, selling vintage and ancient items, is filled with hidden treasures - or maybe even haunted ones. What descriptive language can you use for this place?
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Why is it that grandmas always find the ugliest clothes to wear?
On our date I wore a cheesy sweatshirt filled with floral embroidered graphics and kind words like “sweet” and “precious”.
My tank top had gotten soaked after an incident involving the unfortunate timing of my grandma’s backyard sprinkler.
“You know you never actually told me where we’re going.” I told her in the passenger seat ...
The shop is small, hunched in an alley. You would miss it if you didn't know it was there, or if it didn't happen to catch your eye as you bustled past the alley on the way to somewhere else. A small sign creaks above the door, barely holding on to the metal post it is secured to, and the name of the shop. It's faded letters proclaim it "Night Traders". And, as the name implies, they are only ope...
The bell jingles like a pixie up to no good, but the door whines louder - rudely loud for such a quiet place like this.
I close the door carefully, clicking it into frame as if the walls around it would crumble otherwise.
I stomp my boots against the welcome mat, slush melting around the cursive lettering. I look up at the room no bigger than most basements.
Even without all these knick-knacks...
Stale air sits heavy in the evening.
The pale lit sun
Only brightens each dust particle,
Wandering aimlessly through the shop.
Some sit comfortably in fragile china,
While others lie on the heads of old dolls.
Dolls with their painted faces
Made to love a child through the ages.
Chimes hang on the door
Ringing,
Singing,
Forever more.
Matted carpet under feet
Whites and pinks,
Creams and browns
...
Thirsty for a dusting this parched store located in the farthest corner of the shoreline where no one has visited in well over a decade, two old ladies sit upon rocking chairs watching the sea calmly sway back and forth from its porch. A trio of cats dancing around their feet as they watch eagerly for their next treasure to wash up.
A small oxidised pendant hides itself within the soft snowy sand...
It was a darker shade of a gorgeous day: slightly windy, the sun hidden behind silver cloud fragments. There was a small little town called Shepherds Peak in central Indiana, and in the centre of Shepherds Peak there was an antique shop.
It was very old and rustic, the aesthetic being a million shades of brown. The dusty shelves were filled with old china dolls with glass eyes that stared straigh...
Antique City is probably my most favourite place in the world! It’s a small shop hidden between two big buildings on an already unknown street. It sticks out with its brown and peeling green exterior next to the eggshell buildings, yet people walk right past it without giving it a glance. I’ve never seen more than one or two people in there at a time.
When people walk in, they are always hit with ...
First time we’ve come across a building above water since downtown.
A Brookline style shopfront protruded out of the vast ocean flooding the city. Blue boards lined the sun bleached facade, covering the barren brick left exposed on the sides.
Isolation seemed to serve it well. The windows there still intact. The name of the shop was still plastered on the glass. “Earls Antique Goods” maybe we’ll ...
A glint of gold catches my eye
Sitting on the rusted metal shelf
I gently pick it up
Before one of the workers explains
It was a pirates coin
All I can think about is
It would’ve been so much easier to be a pirate
Someone who stole instead of worried about credits and finances
Someone who took what they wanted
And twisted no one
Someone who hurt people before they hurt them
Always in t...
There were rows along rows of dolls at that shop. Their emotionless polystyrene faces staring blankly into your soul. The way their eyes watch your every move. The way they look human. It’s scary. The way some of them go hand in hand or are holding umbrellas, all wearing clothes from different time periods - some modern, some ancient. It sent shivers down my spine....
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