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  How A Story Character Is Born

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Have you ever wondered how a character is created? I often have conversations with my character before I introduce them to a story. This is usually how it goes: Okay, let’s see…I need a story. But first I need a character worthy of my tale. Who shall I pick? Shall my character be a male or ...
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  It Still Grows

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  She ran to the lake that she ran to when she was a child. She ran to the lake that listened to her silent prayers and comforted her with its gentle whispers of running water. She ran to the lake that flowed with her tears over countless years. As she knelt at its bank, she found that the lake had...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Flower

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  You see it there The perfect one No other is like it It is unique Not one can rival it In beauty and fragrance You see it there It calls to you But think before you pull it from the ground It has grown there from seed to flower You yank and jerk and it silently screams But its unheard p...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Man Destroys All

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  It wasn’t the first thing to exist on this planet And It certainly wasn’t the brightest at first But slowly It grew in intelligence and physique Until It conquered all and sat upon a wicked throne First It ripped the trees up from the ground Then It pushed back the wave of furious creatur...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Her Revenge

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Nimera, James and little Rebecca stood still, barely breathing. Even Rebecca, the most fidgety six-year-old on the planet, held her breath in her tiny body and squeezed James’ hand. Her coal black hair swayed with the breeze that was getting steadily stronger. Her brown eyes were wide with fear an...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Am There Behind

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Running inside and bolting the door Is not going to hide you Shutting the windows and drawing the curtains Will not obscure my view Calling your family and staying your dog Is all but hopeless too The best you can do is come out to me I promise I won’t hurt you Curling up under pillow an...
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  Letter to Those Who Will Hear Me

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Dear Reader, I live in a land where there is no soil. Every day, out in the sun, my brothers and I toil away. The ground is hard rock which is cold as ice at night. And the shadows thrown out by light are most frightening. I live in a world in which love is nonexistent. Food and water are things ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Pirate Prince

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  A pirate is a prince of the seas The waves whisper to him through the salty breeze He plunders and pillages all that he can find A pirate and his crew form one open mind The waters below the ship toss and turn They use such terms as “port” and “stern” They know the world like the back ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Wizard's Wand and Brother's Bravery

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  There once lived a lad some ages ago Who had a little brother and loved him so And every night he told him tales Of gentleman pirates and singing whales They climbed the tallest trees together And did all their chores even in the worst of weather They knew well and good the difference between ...
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  Followed

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  In the darkness of silent night under the twisted trees With branches like claws that grope the wind and block out the light of the stars The path of narrow, gravelly dirt that rasps wherever you step The silence so thick and the darkness so black there’s nowhere you are safe Tired, running, f...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Why, Mother Nature?

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  It’s something I’ve been meaning to investigate, Well, that’s just my problem, you see. Mother Nature is cunning and apparently has a sense of humor, But I simply must ask: why me? When I say “me” I don’t mean me. I mean us, all of us. You, me, kings, queens, Teachers, politici...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Mourning Ghost

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  If only I had a choice If only I could decide If only I had a voice Or a friend by my side But here I am alone forever Trapped between unlike worlds My freedom is guaranteed never Like a solemn cage of birds My chilling embrace scared away my family And my eerie moans chased away my friends...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Afraid

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Afraid of something that isn’t there But comes around to haunt you It isn’t real and you know it’s true But still, it bothers you To think that a silly little phantom fear Could take over your every move Is frightening in itself, I’ll admit And even more so, when it doesn’t exist T...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Ice Dancer

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN

  Twirling ballerina upon the ice She spun so gracefully, so gracefully and nice Carving large figure eights with her skates Fluttering snowflakes she creates So perfect was she! Or so everyone thought, Rare and beautiful like a butterfly never caught And as she danced the crowds would cheer No...
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  Mermaid

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN
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  Li Mei

  

  By BrandybuckTook, Muncie, IN