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WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a descriptive piece about a desolate landscape.

Think about how you can describe both the physical aspects, and atmosphere, of this place.

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Red Death

The ashen sky was falling, this is our acid rain, the poisonous remnants of glory bored by those who came before us.


Generations who when alive had an Earth they could call home, the offspring of the ones whose industrialisation of the fragile planet left it baron and inhospitable.


We’d inherited a world of darkness, the ever growing clouds of smog and decay, denying us the birthright of sunligh...

There

The cold breeze sent a shiver up her spine. There was something eerie about this desolate place, yet also familiar. The moon mutely reflected off the stone that was jutting out of the desert sand and allowed her to see without a torch once her eyes had adjusted. Everything was tinged red as if a thousand battles had been fought in this very place and the sand and stone and shrubbery soaked up e...

Death Valley

Staring out across the cold empty fields. As the moon shined bright it illuminated a few scraggly bushes further down in the landscape. The air was dry and cold. Thinking of crossing such a barren wasteland was unsettling in itself. The thought of making it across and surviving seemed pessimistic at best. There was something cinematic about the chill in both the air, and paralyzing fears of what c...

A Fool’s Bargain

Paloma stood at the window as she waited in the small study, the lacklustre lace curtains hanging limply either side as condensation fogged the glass before her. She watched a gaslight flicker in the street like a dying star, casting an amber glow across the slick, wet cobblestones. The branch of a birch tree tapped

against the glass pane like a crone’s bony finger, the only shred of nature that w...

The Beach

Standing on the sand, staring out into the cold North Sea, wind whipping around him. John pulled up his scarf and adjusted his hat. 

The beach was deserted, unsurprisingly for an early morning in February. The sea lapping at the frozen sand. Everything looked grey, the sea, the sand, the sky. The only thing to be seen for miles and mile, a row of wind turbines and a couple of container ships out o...

Snow Globe

The air was laced with a stinging cold he could feel burn in the chambers of his lungs. Lost and lonely, he dragged himself through the knee-deep swamp of snow. He had no sense of direction as he trudged on—there were no destinations to reach there, in that frostbitten desert—but going forward was better than going nowhere.


Infinite miles stretched identically every way he turned in a way that ...

Empty

The buildings that once stood as high as the clouds now lie on the ground, burned and broken. The houses built in the city were very scattered now, and if one happened to be mostly intact, it was either abandoned or being used as a monster’s hideout. If it was the latter, there would be skeletons piled up outside, all flesh ripped from their bones. Other bones were scattered around the city by the...

Gone

Cracks spidered out from the center of the monstrous crater that stretched for hundreds of feet in all directions. The earth’s red clay lay broken from the incredible release of energy. From where she stood, there was nothing. Nothing but the remnants of a memory on the verge of being forgotten. Rocks jutted out from the edge of the crater, ringing it with a crown of ruined earth. Formations of re...

Hidden Haven

Stumbling through the deserted mountain path, tired and parched for water, I wondered if I would make it out alive. My only hope was to reach a town before nightfall.


Suddenly, I heard the faint sound of running water. It reignited my strength, and I pushed forward, desperate to find it. Bursting into a clearing, I saw it—a crystal-clear river. Without hesitation, I dashed toward it, cupping my p...

Dulce,NM

San Juan river

cut her route through the mountains Isolated farms made her their home

Not a single cell tower

Forget about modern age

This place between the mountains with modern humans

Named Dulce, her hidden gem was worth the isolated drive

Worth getting lost for

Her mountain ridges worth more than the sum of my worth

Her people, so close to Mother Earth

Taken care of me when I needed a...

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