/lit/ - Literature

>>11162900
My apologia to your mom's ruptured anus

>>11162900
I felt about his ruined cavernous hole using my hand, yet his ravenous maw begged for the whole fist to tempt him

I wish I had a copy of it. Wrote it in 10th or 11th grade back in 2009? I had started reading Mason & Dixon, and the imagery in the opening chapter left such an impression that I tried to compose something as cozy and warm and fully of color. Wrote some highly symbolic description of a garden scene, for which I had to research the symbolism of hundreds of plants and their colors. That's all I wrote. I then emailed it to my English teacher after I finished her class. Wrote only "My name is [anon], and I wrote this" in the email and attached the piece. She responded, "Nice work."

>>11162900
Poem when 17 to crush
>Jane you've changed my life/Jane, please be my wife
More of it but forgot about it

>>11162926
That sounds like something you'd toss and turn over for the rest of your life.

Bleeding Edge

>>11162926
>Nice work

>>11162932
Why?

>>11162926
>Nice work
btfo

>Be 18
>In boot camp
>writing a cringe as fuck love letter during a class
>Get caught
>Drill instructor makes me read it out loud
>for the rest of boot camp everyone calls me a pussy.

>>11162948
>>11162932
I was so proud of what I thought was its subtle allusiveness and dense symbolism and imaginative breadth. I sincerely believed it was on par with Proust. That "Nice work" kicked the breath out of me. For nearly five years I didn't dare share anything I had written until I got good.

i love you

>>11162970
Share it with us anon.

A novella from my college years called "The Pantomime Horse" that was a pretentious, overly wordy "tragicomedy" heavily indebted to A Confederacy of Dunces. I haven't looked at it since.

>>11162980
Good title though.

>>11162900
The title page of my edgy high school diary:
The Visually Enticing Works of Adolescent Self-Enmity
By Anon
(If lost: good.)

>>11162978
I wish I could, but I sent it through an old hotmail account which I can't remember. God, I wish I had a copy. I did manage to dig this up: the first thing I felt confident enough to share after the incident. It's an homage to Hart Crane.

Though bound by burning bells among the wires,
Which cast their mythic strands across the east,
I walk and sing the path inviolate,
And pour my bones into your marbled bridge,
And tune my voice to harmonize with yours,
And pray to graves your eyes had writ anew.

O arbiter of dice and voices traced,
Dissolve this light which bars a tantric god
That I may cease to be a fleeting step
Upon this altered arm which merges wrecks;
So I can leap the white ascent you grasped—
The pillared leaves of bone beneath the sea.

Into inchoate waves about the Bridge
This calyx cannot forge its fruitful line—
But fall a virgin relic, broken, cold—
And I, the coward root, retreat to land
To watch the potent palms of gods create
Their gilded arch about your lasting path.

>>11163032
Nobrains like you shouldn't use inviolate after Crane.
Nice work.

>>11163032
I can pinpoint every word you lifted from one of his poems. Strictly embarrassing.

>>11163032
>But fall a virgin relic, broken, cold
>To watch the potent palms of gods create
>Their gilded arch about your lasting path

I think 4chan has found its bard

>>11163032
Nice work.

>>11163053
That's kind of the point, boss. Acknowledging indebtedness, emulating, lamenting my inability to overcome his influence, and then retreating back into observing. In some sense, it's supposed to be embarrassing.

>>11163051
Thanks. ;)

>>11163061
"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."

>>11163032
Both toil and choiring strings. I like it, anon.

>>11162900
my diary desu

>>11163063
>>11163084
Appreciate it, anons. Is there anything in particular you enjoy? Revisiting it after so many years feels quite odd. I can still recall what I thought was effective at the time, but I didn't receive much feedback from others.

>>11162980
>>11162986
I agree with this anon, imo you should rewrite it just for the title alone

I have written some pretty cringey things, but there are only three that I shared with other people. Two were plays, one was a note to a friend.
One was in junior year high school english class when we were doing a comedy unit. I wrote a really pretentious "high comedy" short play featuring two people and there was pretty much no plot but one guy walks into the room and has a snarky conversation with the other guy and they both try to out-quip each other. And I thought I was really smart because I added extra jokes in the play directions. Two of my friends read it aloud when it was time to share and it was only at that point that I realized how abysmal and embarrassing it was. This physically pains me to write, but it ended with both of them dying from a freak dimensional event (because I was all about science then) which teleported Bob Sagat into the room, along with various other figures, who then bored them to death.
the next one was a note I wrote in one of my friend's yearbooks where I said I would marry a foreign woman and die beyond the sea, and to play Tom Waits in remembrance of me among other awful stuff I don't remember. I was pretty depressed and I thought I would never see my friends again, which compelled me to write that awful letter. She still quotes it to me sometimes to make fun of me and I have to weasel around so my other friends don't find out about it.
The last one was a play I wrote for a creative writing class I took in freshman year of college. The class itself turned me off from any form of creative writing to the present day.
It was a play much like the first, but it was two guys get stuck in a convenience store during a thunderstorm and there is a monk meditating in the middle of the store which they have an argument about. When we were performing it the one asian person in class wanted to play the monk and it was very, very uncomfortable because there is one part where they start beating him up to try to wake him up.

>>11162900
MLP fanfiction

>>11162900

Tom Clancy/Pokemon crossover probably, shortly thereafter followed by a novella based on some dreams I had.

>>11163127
Beautiful, especially the Saget appearance.

>>11163127
Ouch, anon. You've had a rough run

>>11163032
Not bad although it reads like you did a copypaste

>>11163032
This discourages me. How did you even know about Pynchon that young!

Probably something on a Gamefaqs board.

>>11162900
A Futurama fanfic with multiple OCs. Fortunately I never uploaded it anywhere.

>>11163146
As I responded to another anon, the overt references are part of the thematic thrust. Thanks, though.

>>11163147
Around 14/15, for various reasons, I started researching postmodernism, metafiction, etc. After reading GR, I saw M&D in Barnes & Noble and picked it up because I thought it looked beautiful. Why do you feel discouraged, anon?

>>11162900
I wrote a thousand word text to my ex explaining why she should take me back.

>>11163169
What was her reply?

>>11163178
She didn't respond to the contents of the text. I sent her a followup asking if she received it and all I got back was a yes.

>>11162900
This one sci fi short I wrote in sixth Grade that I still have with me.

>le Cringe Xd

I fucking hate redditors

>>11163217
Post it.

just super gay descriptions of male characters from when i was repressing being attracted to men

>>11163228
>being gay
Cringe

>>11163187
Imagine being her and seeing that text, eyes growing wide with a mix of fear and anger as more and more parts chirp through the phone. Until finally silence but only for a minute of peace (am I supposed to read all of this?? she asks herself) until a desperate question crawls out at the end, and she only responds with an empty "yes" before she turns off her phone, locks her doors, and grabs a kitchen knife to place on her nightstand.

>>11163032
Christ this is abysmal. Then again, everything Crane ever inspired is.

>>11163248
what else did Crane inspire? genuine question

>>11163248
Thanks. What >>11163255 asked.

>>11162970
Did you, git gud?

>>11162900
Probably some argument on an anime forum when I was 13.

>>11163275
Not for me to say, but I'm sure I got better. I at least understand now that style is most often not an end.

>>11163227
I'll only post the world building intro because the rest is even worse. I think it's the first time I ever tried to write an actual narrative and apparently I never even tried editing it.
>In the year 2501 Earth was rife with contempt. Some thought we were on the brink of a 4th world war. Scientists turned their eyes from the skies to weapon designs. Then it happened. A highly radioactive asteroid in the in the asteroid belt officially lost it’s asteroid status and struck Earth. Blowing Africa off the map and made seventy-five percent of the Earth uninhabitable. All of the surviving governments slowly formed together to form the C.F.H.A (catastrophically formed human alliance). They pooled all of their resources together to find other planets to colonize. And then we found them. For years the Sydros and the Augonauts were fighting and struggling to get an advantage. Even though we came out of the Blue they were Quick to swivel their turrets at our ships. The C.F.H.A. Quickly formed together a united military divided into four parts the common army, drivers, pilots, and the scouts. The common army was the rank and file form that anybody could get in. The pilots were harder to get in to you had to take a series of tests they were trained to control one type of vehicle. The pilots were chosen at the age of eighteen they were extensively trained in controlling all vehicles including enemies. Also they were taught how to hijack and how to get out of damaged vehicles and possessed some open training. Some pilots would become pilots of massive Assault ships or join a team that controlled the legendary mother ships. Finally the most prestigious division is the Scouts at birth the C.F.H.A. watches the kids measuring the smartest most athletic part of the population. They were then taken at the small age of five. From there they were mind wiped of their past life and were put through extensive training to get them strong. At the age of fifteen they were unstoppable machines. There they began to learn how to fight, shoot a gun, control almost all enemy and friendly vehicles, and tactics (they would at times lead groups of common soldiers). During training One soldier stood out from the others his name was Trent Jones during this time he became strong friends with another star soldier his name was Joseph Bumere his nickname was Joe boom due to him choosing explosives over all other strategies. Everything thing seemed good until the Augonauts made a sudden move to destroy the biggest C.F.H.A. war factory ever on the watery planet Bines.

>>11163032
It is really derivative but I like it. Your work must be pretty good at this point.

>>11163222
I bet you’re fun at parties.

>>11163356
>A highly radioactive asteroid in the in the asteroid belt officially lost it’s asteroid status and struck Earth. Blowing Africa off the map

Wrote an essay in public school on the islamization of Europe

>>11163356
>>11163408

>>11163032
I like your usage of words but it doesn't have an inch of Crane's poetic vision or creativeness. The first three verses make me think you have some talent though.

>>11163419
there is nothing wrong with this intellectually, it's just prudent to hide your power level for social reasons

>>11162900
Used to write death haikus and poems about a girl when I was depressed in uni, a lot of really embarrassing poetry basically.

>>11163400
>parties
Cringe

>>11163419
Based

>>11163222
cringe trips

>>11163549
>trips
Cringe

>>11162900
I wrote a greentext about Discord from MLP cucking anons out of their waifu Fluttershy or some shit.

I did it to piss them off and it worked lmao.

>>11163483
>Cringe
Cringe

Some of my edgier posts on this site take the cake. I'm embarrassed every time I think about them.

>>11163557
>>Cringe
>Cringe
Cringe

>>11163551
>Cringe
based

>>11163564
>based
Absolutely based

>>11162926
>Nice work
That's a cruel answer. The least she could do was to give some real critique. She's an English teacher after all, isn't it her job to instruct aspiring writers?

>>11163575
>Absolutely based
Cringe

>>11163581
>cringe
Absolutely cringing

>>11163127
Lol anon the last one is a funny story. Just write another play about your experience writing/performing the play as a college freshman. If you have honed your skills at all it would make for a good comedy.

I wrote a horrible love ballad poem thing to my high school LDR that cheated on me while I was in college. It is atrocious. Called it ballad of a broken song or some shit. I sent it to her in an email, wrote like 20 lines in 10 minutes. Extremely horrible and I have steered clear of poetry since.

>>11163240
She's a single mother of two now. But I spend all my day on 4chan so I'm not sure who ended up worse.

>>11162932
I have about 20 things worth tossing and turning over. I wonder if other people have them or if I'm just quite specifically autistic.

>>11162900
>>11163554

This.

thestoryofbutton.wordpress.com

>>11162900
a one page short story inspired by binging The Punisher and having half a day left to submit something to a contest. Some edgy shit about "the abyss" and "a candle in the dark". Still have it, won't ever look at it again, probably gonna delete it sometime.

>>11163133
Did you post on /mlp/?

>>11163153
>I never uploaded it anywhere.
That’s worse, actually

>>11163580
English teachers know jack shit about literature

I wrote poetry a few years back, I'm gonna dig

>>11162926
Based teacher

>>11163178
Nice work.

>>11164714
Well nevermind found it:

The tide, I hold it in my heart
which surfaces like a nod,
I'm sick of missing my little sister,
of missing my child and my swan,
a boat, that depends on
precisely what it is docked to.
From my heavens it is raining
light-years and more,
I am the Jersey phantom
he who comes on grandstanding nights
to throw mist at you like a kiss
and gather you into his rhymes
like the three-layered net of July
where the seabass was shining alone,
the one I saw shining
on the land's fingers of sand.

Remember that sea dog
that we used to release on parole
and which, in the desert, mouths
necropolis sea wracks.
I'm sure that life is there
with it's lungs beome like flannel
when it cries about those times,
the grey-blotched cold which calls us.
I remember the nights back there
and the sprints won on the foam,
those incompetent pursuers
who destroy themselves on the rocks.
Oh angel of lost pleasures,
oh rumours of a different life,
my desires since then are nothing
but a sorrow of my loneliness.

And the devil of the conquered evenings
with his pallidnesses of recovery
and the shark of the heavens
amongst the wet mossy rocks.
Come back, green girl of the fjords,
come back, violin of the massed violins,
the horns are sounding in the harbour
to celebrate the return of their comrades.
Oh the rare scent of salt flats
in the peppery heat of the fissures
when I was going, geometrizing,
my spirit in the pit of your wound,
in the mess of your stern,
sticky in a fine dawn's sheets,
I saw an extra stained glass window,
and you green girl, my spleen.

The shells set out
under the sunlights, broken, liquid,
play the castanet so much
that it looks like pallid Spain
God of granites, take pity
on their decorative purpose
when the knife comes to get
into their castanet figure.
I saw what we approach,
when we sense the meeting
between the blood's shutters,
and that the corpuscles displayed
a mathematical blue
in this always restless sea
from which comes to me bit by bit
that memory of the stars.

That rumour which comes from there
under the friend arch where I blind myself
these hands that fuss,
these cud-chewing hands that moo,
that tale that follows me for a long time
like a beggar on anathema,
like the shadow that wastes its time
drawing my theorem
and under my red-haired makeup
it comes crashing like an ever-swinging door,
this noise that wakes up
in the street of dead musics.
I'm finished with the sea, finished,
on the beach the sand bleats
like sheep of eternity...
when the shepherdess sea calls me.

I ripped off an abridged version of an Oscar Wilde story I heard on a foreign movie, rewrote it and tried to pass it off as my own

>>11164747
wtf

Pokemon Fanfiction

>>11164790
Was it porn?

>>11164605
No, I stopped watching the show before the board was created

>>11164853
No at most I kept it to the chest. Truth be told I still upload a chapter from time to time but I delete the work after I have no use for it.
A fine site for getting criticism and used to the idea of your work not being perfect.

>>11164891
I unironically agree with that sentiment, someone who writes 3000 words of fanfiction a month is at least working in some way. It’s better than posting on forums at least.

Something from a writing prompt about Superman. The premise was something like, "Superman has left the Earth because he found out everyone knew he's Clark Kent and were just humoring him." So I wrote the first part of a script for a fake documentary/fake journalism about the background of how all this got set into motion and how something like that could have happened. The how and why the whole world pretended to not know. It had to do with world governments and everyone being terrified about the implications of a man with all this power and they didn't know how he'd handle it but also as long as he was around there was world peace, basically, so the world became this kind of giant Truman Show dealing with Superman. I'm not sure what the cringiest part of this whole story is but I'm pretty sure it's either that I was actually pretty impressed with the idea, so much so I thought about actually submitting it to DC comics and researched "how to submit to DC comics," but I chickened out because all their contact info explicitly says they don't take submissions, or that I still have it and still think it's pretty good. Probably the latter.

>writing elective in college
>miss first class
>second class, task is to write an objective description of a basil leaf
>I feel this need to show everyone my huge c/lit/ty.
>write this two page (bad) description of its porous surface, what its scent made me think of, the dishes you could prepare with it, and how it glistened in the afternoon sun
>next class, expect the qt teacher to literally kneel and perform a wet and sloppy bj right then and there
>failed assignment, did not understand task

Mfw now when I think about it

>>11164939
kek

>>11164904
Yeah, I'm still ashamed of it but it helps a lot with catching what would normally be my grammar mistakes for when I write my actual works.

>>11164939
This is the funniest shit I’ve read on the subject of missing the point of an assignment. I knew I guy who, in a middle school art class, drew buff, mankini-clad furries when we were told to draw an animal we liked.

>>11162900
My chat history in the last three years of high school

I'm glad I deleted them

>>11163228
faggot

Everything in this thread is pussy shit.

I used to write fanfictions with an OC protagonist on a FusionFall forum (a cartoon network MMO). My OC was basically an edgy, 16 year old batman clone who was trained by Aku from Samurai Jack and Buttercup from the Powerpuff Girls.

The saddest part is that it was the most productive period of writing I've ever had.

I've shared some bad shit but I don't think I really regretfully dwell on anything I wrote. Just accept it was shit and move on to improvement.

>>11164386
fucking madman

>>11163580
Maybe she was cringing too much to even begin writing about it. The easy way out off something that's just too absurd.

>>11164361
I have probably 20 or 30 memories so embarrassing that I momentarily consider suicide when I remember one, but then I tell myself "that was x years ago" and I go back to pretending I'm a normal person.

>>11164790
Nothing more noble

>>11162926

I wrote a terrible 1984 rip off for my year 8 English class. We were supposed to write about a picture the teacher gave us and mine was some dark picture of an Escalator. I had no idea where to go with the story so I just made it about some guy who works at a Government ministry and nothing happens and he goes drinking and some people follow him home and there’s random violence. It ends with some dumb shit. I might still have it on my old laptop.

>>11162955
Is your nickname Hey Baby?

>>11162900
A love letter to a girl in my class in the sixth grade. I drew hearts on the envelope and I confessed how I loved her through elementary school years and criticized other boys that seemed to be around her.

>>11163127
I remember you and your story about the yearbook. Always good for a laugh

>>11162955
Didn't know there was anyone else mi/lit/ary on here. Also, fucking lol.

>>11162900
As a kid/teen I was really into earthbound & pokemon & dragon quest and similar stuff, but I was also into literature (like RAW and pynchon & so on) so I'd keep a bunch of messily arranged papers & notebooks, and write manuscripts describing at length the plots and minutiae of video game rpgs I'd make up inside my head, incorporating allusions and themes of the types of books I like to read. Idk I guess it isn't really that embarrassing or autistic, a ton of nerdy kids probably did the same. But I wasn't introverted, I was actually popular in school, so this one activity stands out as relatively autistic. Thanks for reading my blog

>>11162939
What's up pynch

>>11162928
lol

I wrote a love poem for my high school girlfriend. My mother found it and showed it to my dad

join general lit discord

https://discord.gg/kEmXQYW

When I was in 8th grade I had "girlfriend," her parents were catholic. We would chat on AIM, we talked about our groping each other, and what we were going to do more next time we were alone. And I told her how big my cock was. Her parents read all of our conversations and made her break up with me in the most awkward fashion, didn't even make eye contact. The worst part is that her sweet old mom--ailing and aging--knows how big my dick is.

>>11162900
A bunch of teenage poetry about how I'm a sociopath but somehow feel bad about not feeling bad about things.

i wrote some meme shit in 6th grade, i cant even remember why, but it was supposed to be comedic, like a confederacy of dunces written by a 12 year old. i remember my classmates told me it was funny and had me print out a few copies but i think they were just fucking with me.

actually i just remembered exactly why i wrote it in the first place. my dad was writing a short humorous story and i was inspired. i then fucking straight up plagiarized him

I wrote some emails to a girl I liked back in high school, said some edgy shit which basically turned her off of me forever.

Remember when were talking about jumping off cliffs? Idk about you but I really wouldn't mind suicide. I'm not actively depressed, although I was for a long time. It's just that I think I've seen all of life's surprises, I know what's ahead of me and all around me and it really isn't all too deep. For example, let's take some professor from Harvard or something who is really "smart" and has read all the greatest philosophy books and etc. After all that knowledge absorption, is he really going to act really differently? He'd probably still work his job teaching students, accept his pay, pay his taxes, get married, have children, die, end. Exactly the same thing as someone who hasn't read all those books. What I'm saying is there isn't much more meaning to life outside of our "functions". Take me for example. I'm a animal, so one of my functions is to reproduce and protect my children until they become self-sufficient. After that, I'm a male, so my personal function is to inseminate as many females as possible (of course, that is changing as males share more and more of the role of protecting and developing their young). One step past that, I'm a student, so I have to develop myself and learn skills in order to work in the future. The feeling of happiness is rewarded whenever I progress one of my functions (for example, I feel good when I get an A on a test, or when I have sex). There isn't any deeper meaning because there isn't any other way to derive happiness. You could say "What about when I'm with my friends? I feel happy when I'm with them. Doesn't that change things? Isn't there happiness in being with each other?" To that I say that you feel good because friends help you survive and grow, which is furthering one of your functions. (surviving and reproducing) "What about art? I like drawing (as in your case), and I can't see anyway that that helps me reproduce or something."
In deriving pleasure from Art, I'm not sure. maybe it's something to do with feelings of security and excess. Like, "we're done hunting and we've got so much food and a nice cave that we really don't have anything to do, so we'll just divert ourselves with art". That's all I really have to say. I've been to the bottom of the rabbit hole. There is no hocus pocus super magik budda god that's going to save us all, except maybe after death, which is why I wouldn't mind dying.

[ps. please poke any holes in my theory that you see fit. also, I decided to send this because you probably thought I was boring. I'm not boring, I'm just not fucking retarded and I don't want to emulate some

It's in portuguese so I'll try to translate it:

Pele branca (pale skin)
Abre minha garganta (slices my throat open)
---- (I forgot what was written here)
Amarga dor da minha inocência (the bitter pain of my naivety)

I was like 16 and tried to approach this cute girl at high school and I completely froze in front of her group of friends; even if I hadn't stuttered, nothing I said made any sense, I can't even recall if I looked her in the eyes.
That day I went home, stole some opioids from my mother and wrote this on my nitebook. I found it years later and the cringe made me throw it away.

Funny thing is we got in touch and she's my girlfriend for 2 years now. She swears it was cute but I can't remember that without cringing.

Homestuck.

>>11166079
Fucking underagers get out

>>11162900
It was an unapologetically Romance of the Three Kingdoms rip-off but with a lot of gay sex that I wrote when I was 13.

It's still buried in a subfolder somewhere.

>>11162926
>psych professor mentions having trouble finding an article
>wrote a long-winded email to him about the importance of open-access science while hopped up on adderall
>he responds
>Thanks.

Not me, but rather my friend

He grew quite the reputation in school as the single most pretentious person in the building, and part of that was being the archetypal 'kid-that-thinks-he's-smart-and-deep', Often trying to get into shitty philosophic debates with teachers and once trying to turn the Great Gatsby into a 30 minute play. This is not to say that all of his writing was awful, he was certainly one of the best in the class, but more often than not there was snide, snarky undertones of self-grandeur. We were good friends though, and part of that was because he didn't see me as a threat since nearly all of my writing was comedic whilst he took everything very seriously. My teacher pulled me to one side one day and raised concern that nearly all my work ended with a punch line (I think she knew I was scared not to), and said she was setting a creative writing task for the whole class and wanted me to write something that explores serious themes.

Over the weekend I put everything I had into that piece, every sentence and paragraph designed just how I wanted it, it was the best I could possibly do and I was genuinely proud of it. On Monday morning I went to my friends house before school as I often did, and I let him read it. "It's alright I guess, a bit boring in parts." I was crushed. I asked if I could read his, and the biggest shit-eating grin appeared on his face, "Not yet Anon, it's a poem, I'm going to read it out in class"

When we got to class I felt perfectly embarrassed, and nearly didn't hand my work in, whilst my friend's smile hadn't been eroded.

He stood up, cleared his throat like a thespian, and began reading;

"Meow meow meow,
Meow meow meow,
Meooooow meooow?
Meow Meow."

Fucking cat noises, for four minutes straight...

"Hiss hissss"
"Meoooooow"
"sca! sca!"

The poem was called 'cat fight' and was supposedly about two cats going at it, but it just looked like a retarded kid spouting noises in front of a puzzled classroom.

>>11166361
cont.
In the end, he got a new nickname, the Catman, and I got my work back, and my teacher claimed it was the best piece of work I had ever done :^)

>>11162900
My match.com bio circa 2005.

I made a thread in 2015 asking if a letter I was going to hand this girl was autistic. I posted it on here and people said I should never approach a woman due to my autism.

>>11166535
Damn if you still take that seriously you really are autistic.

>>11162900
Pornographic self insert mlp fanfiction that ended with the pony telling me she loves me.

Entire cantos of uninformed poetry at 16 and then entire cantos of painfully derivative poetry at 17. I was going to say a Pokemon fanfiction that was a thinly-veiled allegory for the Israel-Palestine conflict I wrote when about 13, but I just reread it and it's honestly not that bad.

>>11163483
>>>/pol/

A poster for a fictional play in the style of Shakespeare era written by me and starring the girl I liked in high school.

I showed it to her.

I still want to die every time I remember it

>>11163010
>if lost: good
Thats rich man thank you

Probably one of the “plays” I had to turn in in sixth or seventh grade.
I hope no copy of it survives, and I hope that if one exists, it doesn’t have my name on it.

A trash bag and a watered down glass of whiskey, all that lies next to them is the last bit of dignity left inside of a bag of skin.

A few paragraphs from a fantasy novel I started to write about without knowing anything about the story, relating to a family of elves that lived in the tunnels of a London underground train station. I wanted to write this because I read a book about elves and l also liked the feeling of standing on a train platform and seeing the little mice scurry about and thinking of creatures that could live there. I emailed it to a girl I lived with at university (she didn't respond) and named the protagonist boy elf Killi Greentoe. The opening described the sounds of the train going past the family cave and that was about it. God I hate myself

>>11166998
Honestly, this sounds like a nice idea for a children’s book

>>11163164
Probably because, like me, he feels inferior. It is good though, I hope I can be as good as you one day

>>11165217
A healthy learning mechanism, nice

>>11162900

I wrote prolifically in 2014 since it was the year I dropped out of school briefly and for a while had absolutely nothing I could do. Everything mentioned here was from then


>A story about a young boy masturbating to a hospitalised older girl, who happens to be his crush but only sees him as an immature friend (this was before I found out about Evangelion)
>A story about a citizen of Xanadu from Coleridge's Kubla Khan, who lives through the events of the poem while observing a massive, fleshy pattern that is supposed to look like a brain spread throughout the sky, and he gets hypnotised by it and becomes Coleridge himself
>A story about a genetically engineered and perfected man who travels to the slums of NYC and for a moment becomes the Buddha but then goes mad and goes on a homicidal rampage, ultimately ending with his crucifixion and getting cannibalised

>>11163356
jesus christ. this is the worst thing i've ever read

nice work anon

>>11162970
Follow Kenko's advice, you can't get gud unless you share shitty stuff.

>>11166361
So your friend had the idea to takea theoretically serious topic and make it completely comedic?
Why is that so bad?

There was this one hundred page long edgy character introduction/backstory on /tg/. I didn't write it but I desperately want to read something cringy and can't find it.

i remember writing an ode to my chemistry teacher on my notebook but i forgot to erased it, the next day with the same notebook i went to italian class and by accident my teacher read it, jesus, it was embarrassing as hell, not because of the prose (it was quite good) but because it was so vulgar and sexual,

i remember the look of her face, geez, now i laugh about how she reacted,so funny but at the time i was deeply embarrased

>>11166998
>little mice in the train platform
Why are bongs so dirty?

>>11163356
>Catastrophically formed human alliance
Fucking incredible, thanks for the laugh anon.

>>11167346
no, he was being very serious about it

>>11162900

Teenage unrequited love poetry

>>11162926
>Nice work

>>11162900
When I was in 4th grade we had this standardized test thing that had a story we were supposed to write with it. I was obsessed with Louisiana at the time, so I wrote this weird story about cajun bayou people with magic powers. They all talked with french accents and the teacher thought I was just bad at spelling. Never written anything ever again

>>11162955

Humiliation builds character

>>11163356
>Blowing Africa off the map
based

>>11165782
Kek

This is honestly exactly how I thought when I was younger too. Why does almost every edgy teenager have pretty much exactly the same philosophy and same sense they’ve seen everything life has to offer? Kudos on posting it by the way, I myself am way too proud and embarrassed to post similar writings I made when younger.

>>11163356
>Earth was rife with contempt

Lost it lmao

>>11166210
>Was 16
>It's been at least two years since
>Underage

I wrote this spontaneously one night in high school (7 years ago) and sent it to be in the school's literary magazine. (It wasn't) I still remember pretty much all of it for some reason. I have tried to delete this from all my HDDs and backups, but I can't delete it from my memory.

In the hour of the night when the moonlight glows
And the stars come out to see their souls,
I saw a black crow slowly fluttering in the snow

It had broken its wing and could not fly
And I stood before it, petrified
Of what I saw take place before my eyes

Transformed from a crow to a naked man
Huddled in the snow with a reaching hand
With his stony grip, I drew him up to stand

As the somber shadows faded from his face
Icy tears left my eyes with windswept grace

On that frozen ground, I had found myself
Suddenly alone to walk the snowy road of life

>>11168182
Not the worst actually, since it doesn’t try at least to use too much arcane vocabulary and complex sentence structure like a lot of amateur purple writers do, and has pretty good meter, as well as some excellent assonance and consonance done in there. “I saw a black crow slowly fluttering in the snow” is a particularly great line (saw, crow, slowly and snow all matching up with the w and the latter three with the internal rhyme). It may sound a bit melodramatic but in all honesty poets like Poe and Frost (both of whom this reminds me of, in all honesty, with the raven and winter night and bleakness) can be just as melodramatic. The transformation of the crow to a naked man and the speaker crying may be a bit corny but overall it’s somewhat poignant, if you cleaned it up you could have a great poem.

if you wrote it right now off the top of your head, it’s not that bad and probably one of the less cringy things in this thread.

>>11163127
That last one sounds kinda funny.

>>11168182
Still better than any poems I've actually seen in school 'literary' magazine desu.

>>11165254
this

>>11163554

>>11162900
Looking back, I'm even less satisfied w/ a couple three stories in 'Slow Learner'.

Yo, it's MC squared and I'm poppin lots of E
My bars are hard like young St Augustine
I got time to be chaste later, for now, the lean
I spit fire, an inferno
Dante
You spit cum, a mouthful
Das gay

>>11162900
When I was around 10 or 11, I wrote a story about a man trying to rape/murder a loli. I never finished it because I was lazy, and I deleted it because my uncle was trying to backup our hardrive for a new computer we had recently purchased. Don't worry, I planned on her to escape. I was just really digging age-gap back then and reading too much fanfiction and edgy stuff.

>>11168993
Holy fuck writing about “lolis” at ten or eleven you must be severely autistic with serious mental issues and terrible hygiene. Holy fucking shit this is absolutely profound! You are a fucking freak

>>11166826
Hahah holy shit

I wrote a a bunch of cringy poetry when I was a angsty teenager. The only thing I thought I knew about poetry is that it had to rhyme. Luckily I deleted most of it but I still have a few.

A coyote trots across the frozen meadow,
Its gaunt figure casting a ragged shadow,
Over the snowy peaks its hungry eyes gaze,
But to their stoic beauty its eyes are glazed,
After all, such beauty can't sate its appetite,
So, it passes them by, skulking into the night.

A stiff cool wind brings a scent to its nose,
Its eyes light up and off running it goes,
Into night, all its senses pointing,
Toward its next meal, hunger now blinding,
It's lost sight of the cold, quite forgotten the feel,
All's a numb blur as it approaches its next meal.

Cresting a low hilltop the coyote flies,
Expecting to see with its hungry eyes,
The prey that brought it running through the night,
But instead he is greeted by the pitiful sight,
Of a ragged deer's corpse, bones all but stripped bare,
All that remained was the scent, still lingering in the air.

As the glint slowly fades from the coyote's yes,
His senses return, and the hunger starts to rise,
And soon the cold finds him, and the wind starts to bite,
So again, he goes, skulking into the night.

>>11169605
Yes I was autistic, very socially inept, and had adhd, and still do, but my hygiene has vastly improved since then because of puberty. I hate uncleanness and disgusting odors.

>>11169827
I think its pretty nice anon. High tier compared to what teenagers write.

rap lyrics

>>11169843
Thanks anon. I think I wrote that when I was 17-18 and it's probably miles better than the shit I wrote at 15.

>>11163032
this isn't bad at all you're too hard on yourself (or fishing for compliments he he)

>>11169827
Cheesy but really not that bad at all, could easily be edited (read: culled significantly) into something tighter and more evocative

>>11168182
This also isn't that bad and why didn't your high school rag accept it? Also you had a literary journal? In high school?? And it was popular enough that this was not accepted??? If someone wrote this at my high school it would have been included if only for lack of other competition

>>11167138
All of these stories sound interesting and like something I would personally read if they were well written, especially the Coleridge one even though fanfic of such a profoundly influential poet is risky lol. Also the Evangelion one could be done right, and separately from the series.

>>11166998
This is a lovely idea and I can assure you it would find an audience. There's a part in Jean Baudrillard 'Cool Memories' about the mice that love on train tracks where he actually touches on the concept of people living there too, so there's a literary precedent beyond The Borrowers :)

>>11166535
Its just a bad idea to write something and give it to someone unrequited and especially when there's the implication of romance. I don't know why so many people ITT ever thought it was a good idea to give girls letters or poems. Even as an autistic teenager I was already aware what a bad move that was but to each ones own I guess

>>11166312
Underrated post, painful to read.
I once responded to a professors enthusiastic email ("your essay is so interesting I'd love to talk about it" etc) three months late out of nervousness and wrote in that time a virtual thesis length response to his three paragraph email

To which

He responded

"Sure thing."

:')

>>11165782
this is true though.

>>11162970
You are retarded, you didnt even ask for her to do a review. Proffesors are not paid all that well and they have a lot of workload, only some will walk the extra mille if asked, and only exeptional ones will do so when they have to go through your autistic psychic barrier first.

>>11166079
I get it, its meta. This post is the most embarrassing thing you have ever written

>>11165782
Actual incel tier, been there. I did a story comparing human and termite societies, including what I thought was a proto-feminist statement when I said that like the Queen termite , women are expected to just make babies and have their livelihood sucked from them.... Showed it to my girlfriend and a week later she dumped me

>>11165708
Not really that bad at all, in fact sounds like a perfectly normal creative brainstorming process for a young person

>>11165132
This is sad but at least you were being productive and I'm certain you can tap into that same creative spring to produce something worthwhile in adulthood

>>11164909
OK but that's a really specific and weird writing prompt
What did other people write? I can't even imagine that being assigned to a class and your response to it seems perfectly reasonable

>>11163580
Teachers are very busy they don't have time to respond in depth to every autistic email

>>11163559
Same and I always wonder what I would say if confronted with them
>its performative!
>its part of the culture of the site
>of course in my day to day life I don't think or act this way but
I shudder to imagine...

>>11162900
A poem in a school text. That thing changed the definition of cringe.

>>11162900
I'm currently writing a short story about a woman who dies. Her name is Honey Bunches and she lives in Oates. It's comprised almost entirely of cereal name puns and it's called "Life"

Wrote an EarthBound fanfiction about Jeff getting old.
Every now and again I'll get an email notification telling me someone favorited it. It hurts every time.

>>11171242
ACTUALLY FUCK
That reminds me, my ex girlfriend from high school's older brother wrote a 15 chapter Pokemon fanfiction when he was fucking 30 and married.
Fuck I have to find this.

>>11166312
Eh, this is one not really worth beating yourself up about. Professors are notoriously busy and so notoriously terse in their emails. It's more like he probably doesn't even remember your email than anything--Inconsequential more so than offensive.

>>11162900
I wrote a lot of poems about withered flowers and graves and shit like that when I was 16.

>>11162900
I wrote a veeeery long story for a class in middle school with anthromorphic characters. It was sort of wind in the willows meets fallout. I had no real story in mind and it was just a meandering piece of shit that slogged on and on. Pretty painful to think of my teacher reading that.

>>11163169
well at least you saved me from doing such a thing thank you anon

>>11162900
This short story I wrote and read aloud for my 10th grade english class: https://pastebin.com/hjKEahPi
I'd kill to get that confidence back