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WRITING OBSTACLE
Oppose. Decisive. Estuary.
Use these unrelated words in a story of less than 200 words. Consider the plot line you will follow to naturally and unobtrusively include these words.
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We ran aground when we hit the estuary. Captain Mead’s eyes widened as the ship crashed into the shallow rocks at the mouth of the river. I turned away to hide my disdain.
I had opposed the decision to head north, but he had overruled me. He was stubborn, and his pride had now left us all stranded at god knows where. I had tried to get the crew on my side before we departed Port Nolte. I had exp...
I have to make a choice. My father or my mother. They are divorced, and they each have a path the want me to take. My father wants me to be a journalist and my mother wants me to be a geologist. And they’ve boat said, in far more words, that if I chose the option that will oppose their’s that they will not love me (more or less).
So now I have to be the one thing I’m not: decisive. Everyone know...
Aidan didn’t choose to oppose Lord Gramel, but when the Lord took offense to the joke, it was already too late. His henchman hunted Aidan day and night, terrorizing his family and friends in an attempt to find him and put an end to what they saw as an informal jester. Lord Gramel made the decisive decision to show his true self then, the true, power hungry, violent Lord he always had been - and wa...
_Dear Prince Benjamin lll of Scotmall,_
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_I have recently heard word that you disposed of Regalian citizen who peacefully opposed your new decrees. I, in fact, also oppose to your new laws._
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_You have now unfortunately made the decision to make Regalia your enemy. As this letter arrives, my vast army is marching the estuary east of your crown city._
_I tell you this because you can no l...
Who are you today
What is your motive for the way in which you live your life
And are you aware of just how important it is
You reach out without sight, a veil of diversions and a frenzy of hyenas all nipping at your ankles for whatever scraps of attention they may be able to receive from you. Your limbs convulse, thrashing out of habit towards whatever has won the bid for your time. The...
in the slip and the slide
neither fish nor fowl
thrumming pulse of inbetween spaces
estuary, I’m the weary
doorway between the
the ocean of this world
and my rivers
battered as a sandbar
worn smooth as seaglass
in a sea of I don’t see color
of affirmative action assumptions
of neighbors moving away when we move in
of being taken for the maid instead of the homeowner
drowning in unmet dreams and ...
The thundering stamps of feet in unison demonstrated fierce rebellion to oppose the corrupt government in power. We stood side by side, willing to take a stand, willing to fight back. The government forces stood before the building to prevent us from storming parliament. The friction between us and them caused sparks of anger and violence to spit back and forth along the front line.
We made a dec...
“The choice if I am to live will be decided by a chess game?!” Rayburn stared at the vices—well, faeries—before him, feeling numb, angry, and confused. “Do I really matter that little in all of this?”
“Quite the opposite actually,” replied Malv in his gruff voice. The faerie was busy setting up the game, helped by his twin Kait, while Oswald, angry as well, but otherwise quiet, peered out the win...
As the gentle currents of wind took our hot air balloon slowly over the estuary, I could see the pocket of life teeming below while fishermen and traders argued over their goods. They were so distant that I could barely see them, mere grains of sand scattered along the shoreline.
Having spent my life in the chaos below, I was desperate for a reprieve, anything but the smell of fish and the never...
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