The Bird of Legend

[writing-prompt-s]

Humanity discovers a long-dormant species in outer space. Culled and banished because other alien species feared it. Upon saving it from its predicament, the species forms a strong attachment to humanity. One which causes…problems.

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You have often described your girlfriend as a goddess and why wouldn’t you? After all she is beautiful, wise, 9 feet tall, has eyes that literally glow with holy fire, is well into her ten thousands and most of all charming and caring

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For a year and a half, and by sheer dumb luck, Jack has avoided the reapers scythe. Oblivious to the situation, Jack walks into his bedroom one night to find find death sitting on his bed, sobbing.

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The thief barely escaped the castle after grabbing the biggest diamond he’d ever seen. What he doesn’t realize is that he’s stolen a dragon’s egg, and it’s about to hatch

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You were raised by a single father who never told you a thing about your mom. Even when you tried to look, you could find no trace of her. Your first clue comes when you lose a finger in an accident. The missing digit regenerates itself, a green scaly replacement growing before skin covers it.

[conan-doyles-carnations]

is there any more damning criticism of an academic book than the solitary question mark pencilled in the margin

[thebirdoflegend]

“Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.”

- Johann Wolfgang con Goethe

[luthienne]

“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”

— Anne Carson, in the press material for Red Doc> (via prometheis)

[thebirdoflegend]

You have two choices—you can see it for what it is, or you can see it for what it could be.

Derek DelGaudio, In & Of Itself (via thebirdoflegend)

The proclivity for doing both is wherein lies the magic of writing.

The smallest detail is extrapolated out into a fully-functioning fantasy world, a riveting setting impossible to find in actuality.

Its counterpart, of course, is distillation; an experience, a situation, a history—condensed down into a statement of raw human truth.

[writing-prompt-s]

As the king’s food tester you always knew you could die at any moment. What you weren’t expecting was for the king to drop dead and you still be breathing. Apparently you’re immortal, and the court isn’t too pleased about it.

[thebirdoflegend]

You have two choices—you can see it for what it is, or you can see it for what it could be.

Derek DelGaudio, In & Of Itself

[flowerytale]

Anaïs Nin, from “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

[noorshirazie]

“His heart is far older than time wishes to reveal.”

— Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Battle Scars

[noorshirazie]

“I would rather let this desire burn me to the ground than remain unremarkable and unaffected.”

— Noor Shirazie

[soracities]

“I choose the sea in spite of shipwrecks”

— Nadia Tueni, from ‘It is a question of enduring’ (trans. Elaine Gardiner), Women of the fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. Kamal Boullata)

[writing-prompt-s]

All the doctor’s have said that there is nothing wrong with you. You know it isn’t true. Over the past few months you have been experiencing huge holes in your memory, sometimes for days. So you hired a private investigator to follow you. Today is when you find out what they discovered.

[thebirdoflegend]

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton