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WRITING OBSTACLE
Inspired by Cleo Fitzsimmons
Write a dual narrative from two characters on different sides of a disagreement.
A dual narrative depicts both characters' perspectives, although it does not have to be written in first person. The disagreement could be something personal, where they both hold different views, or perhaps something like a war where they have the same opinion but from different sides.
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Slamming my fluffy, white paw on the table, I snarl at the German Shepherd in front of me.
“How could you?!” I hiss, my tail prickling with anger.
The dog snickers. “Do what? Hurt your feelings?” He mocks me, how could I fall for those eyes, those beautiful, warm eyes.
I shake my feelings off. “You mauled my kid! Thank goodness I was able to stop you before it could get much worse. And now, your...
You are not only worthy but you are unfathomably good.
But I have done so much bad.
That does not, must not, shall not, define you.
Only be so if I let it, you know?
From here all you can do is grow.
What if I don’t?
What if I do?
What if we fail?
What if we don’t try and never get the chance to succeed?
So many pointless questions you have.
So many answers in that beautiful mind of y...
We were surrounded by piles of corpses covered in blood and wounds. Her russet hair drifted in the wind, revealing her angered expression. She stood five meters away from me but I could still feel her glaring into my soul.
“We need a plan.” She said, strictly.
“I thought you had one?” I tied my long hair into a ponytail.
“I did, but it seems it hasn’t worked. So we’ll need a new one, and we’ll ha...
Hey guys I’m going to move away. Why Sally, where you moving to? I’m going to Atlanta Georgia. I don’t think that’s a good ideal said Jane. Why not, asked Alice? I think change is a good ideal. I don’t think so, Sally that’s far away and besides ,who do you know there?
I don’t know anyone,I just want to go there. I got a job with a big law firm and I’m very serious about moving. Look Sally, I kno...
Bert
Mama is holding down the fort, as the head of our family is gone. Divorce may be filed, but a document cannot stand in the way of putting my family back together.
Richard
My brother Robert is filled with glamorous illusions of our family’s past being restored. Mama cannot accept Father and I back into her household unless we stand down. That is not our specialty.
This war will be fought, ...
I think that you are wrong,
I came here the right way,
I am not illegal,
Why can’t you understand?
My parents were desperate,
We really had no choice,
We left everything we knew,
To start over anew.
You are taking away jobs,
We have to pay for you,
As much as I want to sympathize,
You are making the country poor.
The last time I checked,
You didn’t want that job,
It is beneath you,
I have a fam...
They say the flowers green. Green?! Like an icky goo! I think its yellow, like the Sun thats warm to the touch. Its yellow, like a ring that twist and turns around my grasp. But most of all its like the yellow in his eyes, welcoming and warm.
Yellow?! Yellow is bright and annoying. Take a highlighter, serving its point saying “Over here! Look at me!”. No this flower is Green. A green as sweet as...
I do not want to go. I said to the district nurse. I have recently had a foot infection and suffering a bit of necrosis in one of my toes. They have been coming and changing my dressing, rubbing liquids that hurt and handling my foot like an unruly child. It hurts but they don’t understand. I don’t speak English well. I can only moan in pain and they say it’s fine. It is not fine. Then they wrap i...
I swear to whatever sort of gods there are I’m going to hit this man. He’s so insensitive. He really forgot our anniversary. After 4 years? Like seriously! He knows how important that is to me!
I can tell she’s pissed at me but I’ve had so much going on the past month it’s not even funny. I’ve been working three jobs to try and keep us in a good place, and she knows this. Apparently that’s not en...
We’re arguing for hours
And nothing’s working out.
I told him that white roses make great wedding flowers,
But he likes to disagree a lot,
And we only have less than an hour.
He thinks we should get some white tulips,
But I think that white roses will do.
He always has to complain
About which flower shop we go to.
I’m getting really, really tired
With his constant need for bickering.
So I told h...
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