Submerged
For James & Oneg's Summer Writing Challenge Extravaganza
The Dream State Challenge: write a fantasy fiction or poem about a recent dream that you had. Whatever you remember, use as your fuel for this epic piece!
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Ashley Lima
I think about writing more than I write, but call myself a writer as opposed to a thinker.
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I've done it. I've completed my first round of edits for my debut novel, Bottle Trees and Broken Dreams. This round of edits consisted of checking for spelling and grammar, omitting issues I found in the full read, and adding things that would help build the world and clear things up. I took this draft from 55,000 words to 60,000 words, which is something I'm very happy about.
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Become a paid subscriber to get access.Goodness, this is so visceral. I can't believe your dreams are this literary and I want you to write a poetry collection of just Ashely dreams. I'd buy it in a cinch. That image of the mirror, the oxygen, the reflections, nothing being as it should be, it all screams dream, but also poetry, and you make me want to enter this scape just as the speaker did when she woke up. Just gorgeous. I never forgot about this tag, lol. I'm planning to write something for it soon. I may break the rule of "recent," though... ;D
Wow, so suffocatingly beautiful. Hypnotizing imagery and fluid dream state, bringing up that longing to return to the beginning, to hasten to the end, the cherished loved one, and all the stuff of dreams.
It's such a beautiful story. I wanted to be taken back as well. Very well written and full of emotional comfort ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Deeply emotive… well done Ashley ❤️🙏✨
This one pulled at all of my emotions striking tears. When my grandmother passed I spoke to her in my dreams for months until I suddenly felt better. Thanks for sparking that beautiful reminder.
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If I was dying, dying was peaceful. It indeed is. I don't understand why people are afraid of dying and people don't understand why I'm not. So that's fair I guess. I truly loved your story!
This was serene and beautiful! I love the way you weave the real and unreal together so seamlessly. Brilliant work!!
Love this.
Interesting the way you changed the act of drowning from terrifying to pleasant. Nicely done!