June 2013 -- SEVENTY-FIVE WORD WRITING CHALLENGE -- VICTORY TO SLEEPYDORMOUSE!

[Alex Mason]

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Extra Credit – Where is the end of the Earth?


“These answers,” sighed Professor Headlund, as he pressed his temples with his middle fingers. He took his hands and spread the papers around like a poker room dealer shuffling.

“The Congo; Alaska; Dragonland, that doesn’t make sense; Gods' Spire; Poles, the one with penguins and without; Deserts.” he chuckled to himself.

“These would be great answers for an human anthropology class, but this is geology!” The answer is ‘The Crust,’ it’s always the Crust!”

 

[RoninJedi84]

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A Promise Kept​

He stood on the plank extended over the earth’s end. Bound and muzzled, words were impossible.

He turned to the silver-haired whore now betrothed to Xhar. She avoided his gaze. Xhar smiled.

His eyes fell to the gaping maw below, tears streaming.

He had said he would go to the ends of the earth for her.

If only he’d known how right he was.

He closed his eyes, and let himself fall.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

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Pop and the Question



“You must bring back the horn of the Swoggled Hoopersnack from Darkest Grimland.

“Next, you must track a Flimmerflam to its lair and bring back a golden egg.

“Last, you must locate the sword used by Sir Liesalot and restore it to its rightful place with the suit of armor.”


“And then I can marry your daughter?”


“Marry … Of course not! And then you may apply to be her clerk at the Museum of Antiquities!”

 

[Abernovo]

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The Last Gazette


The death of adventurer and naturalist Sir William Sinclair, Bt., was announced Saturday last. He drowned when his boat capsized, selkie hunting close to his Terrae Extremis estate, in Caithness.

A confidante of the late Queen Victoria, Sir William was famous for shooting a roc on expedition to the Trucial States. Closer to home, he captured several live faeries in Yorkshire. All were displayed at the British Museum.

His son, Torvald, inherits the baronetcy.

 

[Juliana]

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The Lost Traveller or The Little Prince Grows Up
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I can walk all round this rock of mine, this rock I named Earth. I can climb the one hill, sit under the few trees and paddle the lone stream, all in one afternoon. The ends of my Earth are all too near, and I am all too alone.

And I can stare into the star-strewn sky at night and dream of rescue, a shipwrecked captain in the velvet depths of space.

 

[MemoryTale]

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Proof


The cry of the gull, the smell of the sea,
This is the life for me, made free


Freedom from fools, from superstition,
Always had supreme attraction


Said it was flat, imagine that!
I’ll prove them wrong, take that!


Set sail, without fail, ‘round the world, never quail
Get back again, say I’ve proven it
What’s that sound? Waterfall? Oh, sh-

 

[Brev]

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Away with the Fairies.

We saw Her emerge from behind the Standing Stone. Lingered to watch Her dance naked in the moonlight. Beautiful, ethereal, deadly.

We should have fled. Paul’s screams still haunt my nightmares.
They call me crazy. Blame me for my brother’s disappearance.

I know the truth. Paul will never be found. But, even if I have to level every Stone Circle known to man, I will find a way to Her world. I will find Her.

 

[Tywin]

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The Leap

“The end of the earth!”

“It’s just a cliff.”

“Paradise waits in the mists below!”

“Look between the clouds. I see rocks and a river.”

“I’m your Shaman. I tell you it’s the land of the spirits!”

“We can climb down. I think I see a way.”

“You must take the leap of faith!” the shaman pushed him.

The clouds cleared and revealed the scene below.

“Ah,” he reflected, “It was a cliff.”

 

[Lenny]

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The Deity Mirror Reporting


Angel Buildings Hit Rock Bottom

Angel Buildings announced today that they are filing for bankruptcy.

The construction firm made headlines last year with their "Earth's End" project, which aimed to increase the habitable area of Earth by redistributing the earth piled high as hills.

Unfortunately, the death knell has rung on their quest to bring death to knolls, as the company reached the ends of their earth supplies earlier this month.

More as this unfolds.

 

[chrispenycate]

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And Middle-Earth ends​

Ende der Welt strasse forty-nine.
The Entwives grieve, as wald I leave
And westward wend from Mittel Erde
Retirementwards my steps incline
Through havens grey, removal day
Ends lifetime of linguistic murder
Past journeys' end, and back again
Itinerant, a music herder
To Valinórë now condemned
Eternal peace, without surcease
To promised boredom until stellar cold
The risk-free twilight of a soul released.
Live on for ever, lovers, and grow never old.

 

[CraigBoyes]

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The Edge

No gulls this far from land, no living creature would stray so close to "the edge".

"The edge of what though?" pondered the runaway aboard her raft.

The tales of monsters in the oceans frightened her less than the beasts she had left back home, ashore.

The sun setting on the horizon appeared to ignite the edge of the world as if hell awaited anyone foolish enough to cross it.

"Here I come" she said.

 

[Writersblock]

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Acceptance

The world ends.

We, the remaining few, the ones unlucky enough to have survived until now, gather.

The sky fills with descending pillars of fire.

We have waited long. All fear is gone.

Our worlds final breaking comes and we meet it with relief.

A last touch, a fleeting smile, a final goodbye.

Our world ends and we end with it, as it should be.

 

[Starbeast]

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Deutsche Antarktische Expedition 1940​

"We've searched for ancient artifacts all over the world. Never had I dreamed we'd find a city of gold. Captain Hoffman, radio the U-boats. Have the crewmen retrieve the gold."​

"Colonel Wilhelm. This isn't Atlantis."​

"It doesn't matter. This find will fund our war effort."​

"Colonel, the submarines, they're missing!"​

"Preposterous."​

"Colonel LOOK!"​

A colossal monster lumbered toward them. Their hair whitened by the shocking gargantuan beast's ugliness. Wilhelm screamed as Cthulhu roared!​

 

[SleepyDormouse]

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The Needle worker​

The tricky bit.

Months of work are at stake.

Seas, mountains, plains and forests have been carefully woven together. Textures, tones and patterns painstakingly applied in hand embroidery.

Her golden needle carefully gathers up the ends and cautiously pulls the shimmering thread tight.

Edges crumple, then smooth and disappear.

Smiling, she releases the globe with a graceful spin of the wrist and watches it drift to join the solar system.

 

[TacticalLoco]

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The End is Near
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The wizard was old, fat and lazy. He still wanted his exotic eastern silks, southern olives and northern slaves. Too much work to get them himself, he tired even of paying others.

He created a spell that would warp distance and bring the world to him. When he cast it reality folded in upon itself. Parts fought to occupy the same space and time. The reaction to this magical implosion was a large, normal explosion.

 

[Perpetual Man]

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Beyond the North West Passage

A nexus of cold: snow and hail bite around me like the teeth of winter. Oh Erebus you brought me here, and now the old northern gods lay claim to me for what I have wrought.
Condemned for I have feasted on man's flesh, ice envelops me, Arctic voices crack like fissures, “Guilty Franklin!”
Snow closes over me, a freezing tomb, so only my hand remains, a marker to nothing more than the end.

 

[paranoid marvin]

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Alone



I searched the East
I scoured the West
'Cross desert, sea and plain

I travelled North
Then headed South
My efforts all in vain

In all the lands
In all the world
Was I the only one?

'Neath Heaven's gaze
I wondered loud
Where had the rest all gone?

There was a time
Now long ago
I craved a little peace

Desire it seems
'Came granted boon
Now I seek for release

 

[johnnyjet]

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A Gracious Gesture

The alien warlord Pentellor stood over eight feet tall. A hulking, lizard-like creature, he wore heavy, brightly colored armor and brandished a large rod. He looked down at us, Earth's chosen emissaries.

"Nuclear?" he asked. "Geothermal? Solar?"

Nobody responded.

"Or do you prefer ice?"

I cleared my throat and said, "Why must we choose?"

He made a loud guttural noise. A laugh?

"It's only fair we let you choose your own end."

 

[MPorter]

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Memories of Earth

Great belching giants spewed their toxins into the atmosphere. Smokestack snores and reactor dreams. When they turned in slumber, the Earth shook and cracked. Strip mined. Veins pierced by drilled deep shafts to siphon life blood. Crude folly.


The planet receded behind us.


“Where now, daddy?” Face pressed to beveled glass trying to imprint the image of the planet into my mind.


“I don’t know, love.” His hug was the last comfort I can remember.

 

[crystal haven]

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Second sight

When William was born I hated him. He stole the throne from me.

At fourteen he lost his sight. I’d learnt revenge – bartering with the witch in the next village.

A week later Father died.

“Do you love me?” William asked.

“I will go to the ends of the earth for you,” I lied, preparing to slit his throat.

Eyes snapped open. He grabbed my hand. “And I went to the next village – sister!”