Meeting Notes and Assignment

By -
Meeting date: January 15th, 2017

Story Challenge Details:

  • Setting: Wild West
  • Present Tense
  • Items: China, Cactus, Lizards, and an Historical Character
Stories will be posted on this blog before the next meeting date, along with the name of the author.

Next meeting: February 5th, 2017.

If you would like to join this meeting, please email appwritersguild@gmail.com

-Appalachian Writer's Guild

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Meeting Notes and Assignments

By -
First meeting: December 5th, 2016 Story Challenge Details: Genre: Horror Third Person Items: Lemons, Harmonica, Iron, Books Stories will be posted on this blog on or before the next meeting date, along with the name of the author. Next Meeting: January 8th, 2017 If you would like to join the next meeting, please email me at  appwritersguild@gmail.com -Appalachian Writer's Guild
Read more

Essay

By -
The gray blankness outside the window draws my already wandering attention away from the hideously mundane task at hand. When I decided to become a literary student, I was filled with anticipation. I didn't expect the very act of reading to become as odious as it has. Before me sits the usual assortment of objects; a half eaten crust of bread, a chewed up pencil, the dreary and miserable half finished paper on Romeo and Juliet , and my faithful and painfully ignored copy of Jane Eyre . A groan escapes my lips without my former knowledge as I push away from my desk. Even the heavy mist outside captures my attention better than the necessary evil of attempting to ferret out the deeper meaning behind the idiotic young love-birds. If you ask me, the meaning isn't all that deep at all. It's beyond me why literary professors insist that Shakespeare was doing more than making a darkly comedic commentary on young love and early marriage. My body contorts in a long overdue s...
Read more

Entirely The Point

By -
I wait tensely, perched on the edge of a tree branch, watching the sky with trepidation. I shouldn't be here. A Fairy, especially on of my royal blood, would rather die than be seen with a Dragonkin. Or at least, most  fairies would. But most of the Fair-Folk aren't hopelessly in love with a dragon either. The sky darkens for a moment, I burrow deeper into the leaves, my eyes flickering upwards in time to catch the sea-green flash of scales, listening as the forest around me grows quiet, and even the wolves cease to howl. He vanishes into the foliage and I hold my breath, waiting impatiently for him. I came with only one mission, and I must fulfill it. I hear him before I see him. Dragonkin aren't nearly as good at being quiet as other forest creatures, but what can one expect for someone so large? A single gust of wind from his wings alone is enough to flatten an entire field of hay. I catch the occasional glimmer of his brilliant scales before I feel the air aro...
Read more