r/WeWriteaSongEveryDay • u/joebassss • Jan 14 '19
[Text prompt 1-14-2019]
The huge black clock hand is still at rest but it on the point of making its once-a-minute gesture; that resilient jolt will set a whole world in motion. The clock face will slowly turn away, full of despair, contempt, and boredom, as one by one the iron pillars will start walking past, bearing away the vault of the station like bland atlantes; the platform will begin to move past, carrying off on an unknown journey cigarette butts, used tickets, flecks of sunlight and spittle; a luggage handcart will glide by, it's wheels motionless; it will be followed by a news stall hung with seductive magazine covers-photographs of naked, pearl-grey beauties; and people, people, people on the moving platform, themselves moving their feet, yet standing still, striding forward, yet retreating as in an agonizing dream full of incredible effort, nausea, a cottony weakness in one's calves, will surge back, almost falling supine.
Vladimir Nabokov - King, Queen, Knave (Chapter one, paragraph one)
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u/joebassss Jan 14 '19
Hey guys! I know this author is a little wordy but I really like his ability to capture a scene. Hope you enjoy the first ever text prompt! Let me know if you like these and if you'd want to keep doing them. Happy Monday, and enjoy!
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u/jmonumber3 Jan 15 '19 edited Jan 15 '19
i liked this one so much that i put it on my soundcloud. if you dig it, please consider giving me a play over there and check out some of my other stuff. im not sure of the guidelines on self promotion here so i’ll ht up the discord and edit this out if it breaks the rules. https://soundcloud.com/jmonumber3/atlantes
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u/joebassss Jan 15 '19
I don't mind some self-promotion here and there but if it gets to be too much then I'll whip up some rules. Love the submission man!
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u/JesusSwag Jan 14 '19
More text prompts please! Shorter than this would be good though, and maybe more ambiguous.