Writing Prompt
WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by sarya the ceiling
Write a passage about something you believe is beautiful, but in the tone a newsreader might use if they are speaking of a national tragedy.
Use a positive event or thing, but describe it with language that is formal and emotionally neutral.
Writings
Sweet Solitude
“Perimeter check, east solarium 328, all secure. Continue scan,” Millers Unit 011 said.
Warm grey clouds hovered beneath the huge clear dome. Mounds of electric green spaghum moss in precise grid pattern dotted the coarse carpet of synth tree bark. The Android monitored the humidity levels. Something felt off.
“Organic gas levels within acceptable range, humidity 80 percent,” Millers Unit 011...
Flames Of Beauty
Me and my sister were having our average daily walk. The cold autum wind was still a bit hot due to the fact we were just exiting summer. We were waving to people we knew, it was a small town. Cars past us as usual.
“Oh my god!” My sister pointed to a firetruck.
“I wonder what happened” we had lived in the same town our whole lives, everyone’s families had lived here for generations, and woul...
Listen
The lights in the sky are comparable to our bulbs. Inside the tenements, they blink on and off, not reliable. Like those, the sky lights do the same, keeping us on edge as to whether or not we can rely on them. Like the woman, walking up four flights of steps to reach her $3000 a month apartment on the 6th floor of a broken building, that is loud and stuffy, wonders if she will have to light a can...
Childbirth: Beautiful & Boring 
Stacey Thompson, a 25 year-old first-time mother, delivered her daughter at 3:47 AM at First Baptist General Hospital. After several unsuccessful pregnancies, Stacey and her child’s father, 30-year-old Tyler Thompson, say they are “absolutely ecstatic to finally have this opportunity. “
The birth, while a significant personal milestone, unfolded with clinical precision in the delivery room. Stace...
Sundown
West Coast of Cumbria, June 20, 2024
In an unprecedented and perplexing turn of events on this summer evening. Residents throughout the nation were left in a state of astonishment and shock as they observed what experts are referring to as a "sunset." The widespread public reaction has left authorities scrambling to address the phenomenon, which unfurled across the skies this evening.
In a spect...
The Invisible
Many days pass and nothing chaches its always the same and it always will be the same. As the sun shines on it one day the rain will drip down the beautiful marble the next. The weather continues and the people walk by like nothing has even changed. The beauty that the statue brings is too much to ignore. It’s like the townspeople are ignoring the shining gory like the stature is invisible. The wh...
Aftermath
What had once been my neighborhood was now gone. The dam had broken yesterday, as I knew it eventually would, sending deadly waves of water down the valley. The school where I taught science to 4th graders, now rubble. Our peaceful, happy valley.
But then I saw something. A ray of light bursting through water droplets, slowing speed and bending as it traveled through air to the density of the wa...
Reflections
Warped and distorted,
It stares at you.
It watches.
It scrutinizes.
It mimics.
It gazes up with stolen eyes.
Stolen lips..
Stolen nose..
A stolen face…
Glimmers of sunlight catch,
Momentarily blinding.
Warning away from getting too close.
A warning to resist its hypnotic pull.
To warn against getting trapped its stoney stare....