Below is the challenge results for Saturday, June 11, 2005. Challenge: Choose one of these ?before and after? titles and write a short prose piece or poem. Don?t see one you like? Create your own using two phrases that ?fit?! The shallow end of the pool table The white house of cards Strong as an oxymoron The Morning afterlife Rosetta stone?s throw Alter ego maniac Written By: ? Litha Sonner Alter Ego Maniac One minute you are as sweet as can be The next you are yelling at me Then you smile and hug me so tight And thirty minutes later were in another fight An alter ego maniac, that's exactly what you are And no matter what you say, I'm getting in this car I'm driving away and never coming back I'm tired of your shit and that's that Written By: ? Kimberly Ann THE MORNING AFTER LIFE I lie on the beach watching the sun set over the ocean feeling the tide coming in. A soft spray of light becomes visible above me. The closer it comes the brighter it becomes. Then standing by me surrounded in light is a god, tall, muscle bound, his body a golden tan and his hair as black as the night. He knelt beside me he took my hand and kissed it softly. This golden god removed my dress and laid down beside me my body glowing in light. He leaned in and our lips met ever so softly at first then it turned hot and demanding. Wrapped in his radiance we become one. Intertwined melded into one floating ever higher above the water. All through the night he took me to a place beyond any earthly pleasure. Our body's and hearts moving as one ever higher into the heavens. The morning sun awoke me it was brighter and clearer than I had ever saw it. I opened my eyes to find myself in his arms on a bed of clouds. My body like his was no longer physical. We had transcended and I had come home. Written By: Genta The morning afterlife I try to be strong when you get that tone in your voice. That tone that only appears at night I prepare myself… I put up my defenses, But somehow you break down my defenses You end up killing another part of me I then prepare myself for the morning afterlife Return to the Writing Challenges Main Page The entire contents of this site is copyrighted. Please do not use it without prior permission from the owner or author.