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WRITING OBSTACLE
A homograph is a word that has multiple meanings but is spelt the same way for each - e.g. a 'wave' in the sea, or to 'wave' at someone.
Choose a homograph, and write a short story or poem, in any genre, where you use your chosen word for more than one of its meanings.
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What if tears tear straight through my eyes and through the skin of my cheeks? Would it matter what wounds the tears leave behind? Would it matter if I shrieked from the acidic tears melting my skin, dissolving my face into an unrecognizable mess?
What if tears tear through my heart because of how you tear me apart with your words and starve me of love because, to you, nothing I ever do is good e...
Today is my first day of school at HarmonyHorizon Academy and I’m not ready! I woke up that morning at 5:30 am. I decided to curl my jet-black hair and changed into the issued school uniform, a blue skirt and white button up top with Mary Jane’s. I said goodbye to my mom after I ate breakfast and headed to the bus stop.
When I got to my school the bell was ringing to go to first period. I bol...
Blink. And I'm plunged into darkness.
The dark isn't the start of my fear it's the unknown.
It's that the stretching desolate space around me could be hiding anything,
But how can I see in the dark.
Blink. And a tear starts to form.
The corners of my vision become blurred as the tiny droplet spills over the edge and down onto my burning cheeks,
Only to be followed by more to come,
And that's the ...
It was Fall again, her favourite time of the year. Maple coloured leaves began their fall from the heights of the tree branches, withering not long after landing on the pavement. As night fell, the girl wandered aimlessly throughout a bustling park, enjoying the views of the season. A child running took a fall and scraped their knee in her path. She looked down, concerned, but decided not to inter...
I should have seen it coming.
Ever since the day I met him, he always wanted change. It started small; the way I dressed, the way I laughed, smiled. But then the adjustments got bigger. More personal. The way I spoke, the way I moved - never preserve, always alter.
We would take a photo. He would edit me beyond recognition before I even got a chance to see it. Even skin tone here, erase a pimp...
Grant stood on watch. He brushed his grey bushy moustache with his fingers. He adjusted his coonskin cap as it became a bit warm under it. It was a cold night so he didn’t mind it. He stood between the wilderness and a semi-civilised class. He wasn’t really on one side or the either. He was a middle ground of the two. However, saying that, it was the people above him that paid his wages. Besides t...
I remember it like it was yesterday. The rotting wood that my house was built out of was chilled. The night was eerie. Mama tucked me into bed and the chipped window blew a sharp gust of air inside, which froze my arms poking out of the quilt papa made for me. I held my stuffed bear, Rosalie close as mama and papa sang a lullaby for me. The night seemed tense. I was too young to understand, but th...
I went to a live performance at the night club last night with my roommates, Brianna and Pelito. We were going to see my old friend, G, sing on stage for the first time ever. A plucky young woman called Marisa saw potential in G after he sang a love song in the most beautiful voice that she had ever heard, so she wanted to try and help him share it with the world. Although G still lives with us, h...
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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a story where an object that is inconspicuously mentioned early on is a key element of the plot towards the end of your story.
Using an object is an easy way to foreshadow an idea, but you could also try using something else like dialogue, or another character, to foreshadow your plot.