Abderian
adjective
- Inclined to incessant merriment or laughter.
- Foolish; Absurd; Ridiculous
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Inaniloquent
What did Inaniloquent inspire?
adjective; meaning "given to talking inanely,
loquacious,
garrulous"
loquacious,
garrulous"
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Prompt 3: Inaniloquent
Labyrinthine
What did Labyrinthine inspire?
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Prompt 2: Labyrinthine
Labyrinthine
Adjective
Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity.
Complicated or tortuous.
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Afterthought - Kaitlyn Rak
"His death was just an afterthought," I said, and you nodded in agreement. We had a bond, then.
By definition, an afterthought is something not originally thought of; it's something added in later. It hadn't occurred to whoever was doing the thinking when it really mattered. The very word itself implies how unimportant the subject actually is. Declaring someone's death to be an afterthought seems a bit of an exaggeration- even if it had been on a T.V. show- but that's how unceremonious it had felt. You agreed, so I couldn't have been too off the mark.
Was that all I was to you, in the end? An afterthought? For a while (if a few short weeks can be considered a while) it felt like I was at the forefront of your mind. You certainly held that position in mine. Other people had noticed your apparent interest, if that's what it can be called.
It's funny how someone could mean the world to you, and they hardly realize you exist.
Will I even be an afterthought to you now? Will I even occupy that little space in your brain? Or will I matter even less than that? That's probably the case now, I suppose. You won't even think of me at all anymore, not even afterwards. I was just someone to pass an hour (or three) a week with, nothing more. Outside that room, I no longer exist. I wish I could say that you were less than an afterthought to me, now, but my mental hard drive can't be cleaned that easily. If only I could be so careless.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Afterthought - Noël Coleman
The initial Outbreak occurred on October 12th
2013.
For all of its horror, the world thought it was an elaborate
Halloween prank. A bit early, perhaps. That
should have been the first clue that we were wrong.
The news stations were filled with sarcasm. Awkward jokes
and mishandled facts leading to more viewers’ annoyance than the
confusion-filled panic our fictions had expected.
In all predicted scenarios, the panic was the worst of it.
People flooding the streets or boarding up in all the wrong places was what
raised the numbers of the dead. Office buildings cut off from the outside
world, survivors left to waste away without food or weapons. The first deaths
of the main characters would invoke the afterthought that maybe a mall would
have made a more strategic base.
It was always too late of course. The stories play out the same.
The group would organize and take to the streets. There’s always death,
sacrifice, and the two survivors. The survivors who make it to the destination
and find that final twist in the plot. The real problem is never the outbreak
in the end. The survivors find out their real battle is themselves, or the
government with super-secret experiments, or worse, the humanity found in an
infected friend thought beyond help.
It’s easier; I suppose to blame the horrors on something
else. Reality was much worse. The horrors here were something a cheap author
might have called man’s confidence and disbelief. Fiction was always looking
for a moral, smashing the lessons learned into someone’s face. There was no
need for morals here. Reality made lessons an afterthought, and no one had time
for those anymore.
The initial Outbreak occurred on October 12th
2013. It went quickly. No one thought to hide or fight. No one believed the power
behind creaking bones and unwavering stares.
The initial Outbreak was the only outbreak; there were no
survivors.
Afterthought - Mark Nikirk
Tucked in folds, the Book well hidden
As I creep under, over midden
Misshapen, scuttles mutant babe
From eyesight's corner to darker shade
Within the ruin, a room concealed
My shelter from nightmare revealed:
After bomb and atom showers
The broken grin of skyline towers
Burdened with the only proof
Of man's wisdom, now aloof
Wars now small, still are fought
After life, afterthought
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Prompt 1: Afterthought
Afterthought
Noun
An item or thing that is thought or added later.
An idea, response, or explanation that occurs to one after an event or decision.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/afterthought
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