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Writing adventure, starting up (plus an exercise for here) More

Writing adventure, starting up (plus an exercise for here)

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  • Those list of themes... just have to be in the story... and the question... that has to be identified in the story, also, right?
    If so, although I haven't started writing, I got the main idea already in my head. The wish on the third day is that I wish I could forget again...

  • Rich soil, the nourshing sun, and soft, refreshing rain.

  • The Third Day's wish was, simply put, McDonald's. This was both because McDonald owned the patent on day-wishes, and because he himself was desparately hungry.
  • Wishes are dangerous. Wishes are very dangerous.

    The first day was the quickest. She'd found the bottle on the beach, exactly where the priest had told her. She had travelled across an ocean to get there, drained her savings, fought through the cold. The bottle was there. Small, plain, ordinary.

    She opened it, and the fairy tales are true. SHe was expecting- something. Smoke, sparkles, maybe a thunderclap. What she got was more of the same- plain beach, plain water, plain ordinary day.

    "It's a bit of a letdown
  • Still lying on his back, exactly where he lost consciousness on the ground the previous night, Pfc. Jimmy Harmon's blood encrusted eyelids cracked open slightly as dawn sunlight broke through the jungle canopy, sidling into gaps between the bars of his cell. His mind registered surprise, not despondency or fear at his situation. Simple surprise focused his thoughts. He had survived the night, that he had another chance to stay alive and see the twins and his wife again meant everthing. Mortar explosions in

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