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WRITING OBSTACLE
Connected. Separated. Gleeful.
Write a story of no more than 10 sentences that incorporates these three words in a natural way.
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Everything happened in an instant. It was like one moment we were connected and then the next we weren’t. I can’t understand why he would even think that being separated from each other would be a good idea. That’s when she happened, oh how I despise her very existence. She just had to walk up to him with this gleeful, ugly ass smile and speak to him in such a way that made him cave. He was a weak...
Sammy Smalls was gleeful.
Sammy Smalls was absolutely ecstatic as she danced around her small room, an acceptance letter clutched protectively to her chest. Because it had happened. it had actually happened. she had gotten in to the school of her dreams. she had actually gotten into the school her late father had gone too. The father she had never gotten to know. And though it might be hard to be...
A severed man,
connected by a ghost
that he hid inside.
Separated from the rest,
he will watch them die.
His arms are his legs,
and his legs are his hands.
His hands hold his eyes,
on his pupils he’ll stand.
He sees them walk,
over him on right feet.
He sees them walk,
but he can’t bend his knees.
The man tries to talk,
but the people, they leave.
The man tries to live,
but his life s...
Lucas and Lucy, or as they were otherwise known, the two Lu’s, were connected from birth. Or at least, that’s what everyone believed, because they were twins. But when they were separated during the war, they felt no difference in their lives whatsoever, apart from the immediate persecution they were having to suffer. Lucas was immediately sent to work at a construction site, where he would load a...
We had been connected at the hip since childhood, Jim and I, that is.
As thick as thieves and twice as mischievous; always planning, always, plotting, always pulling pranks.
Came with the territory; what with both of us having a set of parents with workaholic tendencies and their own prosperous businesses.
We had to fine solace in something and to us, that had been each other.
Too bad our p...
Do you remember back, oh my, 20+ years ago?
Back in college, all that crazy fun?
And the drama, that was there as well.
We were so connected back then.
But we aged, and moved on, as people do.
New lives, new interests, new paths.
Some for the better, some for worse.
We were separated.
But we reached out, decided to meet up again.
So gleeful, as if nothing had really changed!!...
All I could see was fire.All I could hear was screams.All I could think was this is the end.
I ran for my life.But there was nowhere to run.Trees burst into vicious flames as the ground shook as though it was a ticking bomb.Another explosion,and I was thrown back.The flames seemed endless and the wind howled,making them stronger.I was flat on my back and couldn’t move.This was the end.
I thought...
We sat in the treehouse, our arms intertwined, one connected to the next like a string of musical notes. Our breaths were in synch, a perfect orchestra: inhale and exhale, all at once. Our hearts in time with one another like the beating of timpani drums. I remember feeling that this was it, that this was what heaven sounded like. Never could we be separated, forever together in a chorus of merrim...
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