Souls of Poets dead and gone,What Elysium have ye known,Happy field or mossy cavern,Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?...-John Keats, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern Writing Prompt grew up poor and generally content. When he mother fell ill and he needed money to save her, he set off, confident that he would be praised when he …
Author: Oz Ghouls
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When You Leave
“Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind.”― Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Writing Prompt Write about heart break. This can be a non-fiction piece about a time someone left in your life, or a fiction piece if you …
Books to Celebrate American Indian and Indigenous Peoples
I know I'm a little late, but since Thanksgiving just passed, I wanted to acknowledge our history and take a moment to give thanks to the peoples who deserve it most. The myth of Thanksgiving has been taught in American schools for decades, but for American Indians, it's a time of mourning. What white colonizers …
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Crimson Peak Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJAeNcUOx4&ab_channel=TheGarrulousGecko Crimson Peak, 2015 horror film directed by Guillermo Del Toro, was relatively well received when it came out. Making $74.7 Million at the box office, it made back its $55 Million budget with a good bit of pocket change. Our beloved Loki, Tom Hiddleston, was joined by Mia Wasikowska and Jessica Chastain to make …
He Lives in the Walls
“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.” ― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera Writing Prompt: Many believe the church is haunted. Some think the devil has come to try and shake their faith. The truth is, …
“MY Name Is…”
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content …
Techno-Ukrainian Folk-Metal Music
The sound system switched to full, and the stage lights flared in parti-colors. The drummer smacked her sticks together in a four-count and the crowd's cheers were drowned out by a wave of sound that crashed through the room like a white-hot sea. Christa felt it as a solid mass that went straight for her …
Karmic Fate
"Abandoning Harriet, Shelley moved with Mary to Switzerland, where they met Byron. In 1816 Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine in Hyde Park.... In July 1822 Shelley's sailing boat, the Don Juan, sank in a sudden storm on the Gulf of Spezia, and he drowned." -John Carey, A little History of Poetry Writing Prompt Write …
Black Hole Pocket
“Give evil nothing to oppose/ and it will disappear by itself.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Writing Prompt: Raven got the sweatshirt from goodwill. She just needed something to keep warm and had forgotten her jacket at home. It was comfy and a little big, just the way she liked it. Sitting at her desk, she …
A Haunting Past
Sir Thomas Sharpe: “A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing. It starts holding onto things... keeping them alive when they shouldn't be. Some of them are good; some of them bad... Some should never be spoken about again."—Guillermo Del Toro, Crimson Peak Writing Prompts: The house held on to …
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