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Devious Love 19

Welcome! This is a fully revised edition of  Devious Love! These articles will now contain more art and content.  Enjoy! Consider giving the article a :+fav: so more people can see it. Deviants People you definitely should check out! `rainylake (https://www.deviantart.com/rainylake) rainylake (https://www.deviantart.com/rainylake) Kathy shows some serious kindness and dedication! She's always helping others through the means of features, gifts, and constructive feedback. Her gallery is also breath taking and inspiring! Check out some of her news here: :thumb364219589: :iconmiontre: miontre (https://www.deviantart.com/miontre) Amazir is one of the most talented and awesome people I know. He's dedicated and cares about our community. H

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Devious Love 19

Welcome! This is a fully revised edition of  Devious Love! These articles will now contain more art and content.  Enjoy! Consider giving the article a :+fav: so more people can see it. Deviants People you definitely should check out! `rainylake (https://www.deviantart.com/rainylake) rainylake (https://www.deviantart.com/rainylake) Kathy shows some serious kindness and dedication! She's always helping others through the means of features, gifts, and constructive feedback. Her gallery is also breath taking and inspiring! Check out some of her news here: :thumb364219589: :iconmiontre: miontre (https://www.deviantart.com/miontre) Amazir is one of the most talented and awesome people I know. He's dedicated and cares about our community. H

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Literature

The Old Man

The old man's wife passed away a few days ago. He wouldn't like me writing it that way—a fan of George Carlin, the thought of 'soft words' tended to make him cringe; he would have preferred 'died' or 'shuffled off her mortal coil.' He said that second one plenty. Every few years now one of his friends shuffles off their mortal coil, and he always says it that way when he finds their name in the obituary. 'I guess Mavis shuffled off her mortal coil. A shame. She had the most wonderful rack as a young woman. Would've married her if I hadn't met Julia.' The old man wasn't exactly politically correct. Come to think of it, he was a bit of

Preeminent Prose

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Literature

Eagle

monarch of the sky you are about to take flight courageous vision yellow cobbled feet white mantle, cloaked august-brown sunlight-dappled wings victorious shriek bouncing echo multiplied make the mountains sing crisp-smelling morning dew-speckled fresh light of dawn aromatic musk sudden seizing fear morsel writhing powerless unfortunate prey solitary plume sharp needle and fragile air downward jettison courageous vision you are about to take flight monarch of the sky

Beautiful Poetry

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The Price of Plot Twists

Plot twists. Whether it be mystery novels, an M. Night Shyamalan movie, or the prolific father-son reunion in the Empire Strikes Back, plot twists pop up in every genre and medium of storytelling. With good reason, too. A plot twist surprises you, it makes you rethink everything you thought you knew, and it shatters whatever plot predictions you've racked up for the ride. A good plot twists enriches a story, it complicates it. A great one blows your freaking mind. I think it's the "blows your freaking mind" variety that have really pumped us all up on the concept of twists. After all, when people talk about, say, The Sixth Sense, what do the

Tutorials and Resources

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ScreamPrompt #25, April 2012

Fourth Month.   Four weeks.   Four stories.   Four thousand words.   For real. :w00t: All prompts are live :w00t: Here's what's gonna happen.  I will list four prompts, one for each week of this month.  Once a new week starts, the prompt for that week will be posted.  Since I've been rather word-count heavy lately, we're taking it back to Flash Fiction.  Because the prompts are going to be fairly simple compared to the past, I will be attaching a difficulty to each one, mostly to help you avoid leaping toward to most obvious initial ideas.  Read on...

Prompts and Contests

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Misc.

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Images

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