Six Sentences—"Wilted"

Stay or go—just stop wasting space in the middle. We're given one shot; what's your point if not to color your time in shades of strength and strokes of pain? Carry on, people, there's nothing to see here, but a man who crept from one broken dream to another, stuck in molded memories of V-signs and wilted flowers. That's your legacy? Fight. Then, fight again.
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Blake N. Cooper (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)

Six Sentence Writing Exercise—"The Wanted-Man's Shack"

Describe what you see in this photo in six sentences.

For decades now, "The Wanted-Man's Shack" had been occupied by one ambitious transient after another. The redwooded escape was bare of hanging idols or cushioned distractions; a mattress, a knife, a blanket—only the essentials made up the tired space. Nailed to the door, were the rules: the playbook to change. A week is all it took. A forgotten drifter walks in; a clean slate walks out.

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Blake N. Cooper (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)