“And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.”― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Tristen has been dead for a long time, but he often liked to …
Tag: Death
The Purpose of an Immortal
“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting The life of an immortal is generally pretty boring, but Jack enjoys watching the centuries go by. He loves the new gadgets and gizmos that humans come …
Acting as God
"“Remember you are this universe and thisuniverse is you.”― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses When Elizabeth died, she was certain she would finally get some much needed rest from her normal bustling lifestyle. However, the spirits of the underworld had a different idea. Elizabeth was to become the next Protector of the Universe, or in simpler …
Interrupted sleep
“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.”― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum Roy was ready when his time finally came. He had lived a long life. A life so success and suffering. A like of prosperity and …
Prompt: Wishing Death
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man Being just a kid, Charlie never thought that wishing someone dead would do the trick, but after getting grounded for the hundredth time, Charlie couldn't help but wish. He woke up the next morning to his parents lying …
Prompt: Creation Story
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”― Yann Martel, Life of Pi Creation stories explain why and …
Creating Death
Create your own version of death!
How to Die
He had lived for 2,500 years and done everything he could think of, now it was time to learn how to die....
Kill your Darlings
Why am I writing so many prompts about death? The world may never know....
The After Life
If you were the creator of the after life, what would it be like?
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