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Writing Sample from theProse

  Writing Sample from the Prose The following was written for a writing challenge on theprose.com. The prompt was as follows: Grey Wall  Check out the original over at  Grey Wall . Grey Wall Towering over everything was the Grey Wall. For a thousand generations the Grey Wall had separated the worlds, looming above each in silent threat of what lay on the other side. Looming in the heart of the unchosen. No being had every crossed the Wall. No human would try for the abject terror it brought the imagination. Even the birds, circling and wheeling about the azure sky would not cross the line of demarcation. The Wall meant safety and the Wall meant death. Zenyassa did not care for safety and she did not fear death. She was Unchosen. What did it matter? What was life without the risk of losing it? She could not feel alive sitting before a thatch hut milling grain while the men of her village hunted wild yissana beasts. Their hunt brought them adventures and risk for the great ...

Original Writing: The Commute

Traffic light turning red at night.


Continuing with my road rage theme, I wrote this shoddy poem for another theProse writing challenge. Traffic has not gotten better.

In 15 words, capture a recurring moment in your life.
Happy, sad, funny, mundane, frightening. Anything goes.

The Commute


In my Jeep

On my ass

Stuck in traffic

Wasting gas


Red lights blaring

Drivers creep

Fists to horns

Their angry beeps


Green light go

Why so slow

Cars are rolling

Too much scrolling



Now it's yellow

I start to bellow

Back to red

I hang my head


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