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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 Destroyer of Worlds

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The Writing Prompt:

Hook me!

Write a first line or paragraph of a novel that will grip the reader and make them want to keep reading.

The Destroyer of Worlds

Blood. Mayhem. Ash. Absolute chaos. My hands were those of the betrayer, the destroyer of mankind. I laid waste to the exquisite and delicate works of humanity, built desert wastelands on the foundations of paradise. My sacrifice was absolute as I transcended, rising above the bondage of my mortality. Now I was alone, the last sentient being in all creation, ruling over a wild expanse of nothingness. A proverbial Eden. My choice? Whether re-create Adam and Eve, knowing their betrayal and the inevitability of the original sin.

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