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Pink: Episode 1, Part 7 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 7. June 20, 2016. This is what happens when I decide to edit mid-draft…. The line wrapped all the way around the block at 50. And Madison. Viewscreens posted along the outside of the recruitment building flashed with advertisements. The images were of dreams, the things each one of us standing in that line would wish for. Money. Luxury. A free life. A blue sky. Maybe it really would be anybody’s game. It was beautiful, though. There was ...
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May | 2016 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 1. May 31, 2016. June 3, 2016. It was the best day to have a birthday, the earliest possible day. Day one of the recruitment. The day I became legally free. Seventeen. But I wasn’t staying. Funny how the government wanted only the best recruits as their soldiers, when so many of them were going to die by the end of the first year anyways. I walked past an advertisement for the enrollment. It was stuck to a brick wall, moss crawling throu...
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J. B. Cantwell | – 1000 Words – | Page 2
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. May 26, 2016. May 27, 2016. That night the wind coming from the west picked up, and while the cooling air had at first felt soothing against his sunburned neck, soon it brought a chill with it. The sun set, and no long shadows were cast on the ground but for his own. The mountains loomed up ahead, only slightly larger than they had been that morning. How long was it going to take before he reached them? Another magical treasure given to her instead of him. He lay...
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jbcantwell | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 7. June 20, 2016. This is what happens when I decide to edit mid-draft…. The line wrapped all the way around the block at 50. And Madison. Viewscreens posted along the outside of the recruitment building flashed with advertisements. The images were of dreams, the things each one of us standing in that line would wish for. Money. Luxury. A free life. A blue sky. Maybe it really would be anybody’s game. It was beautiful, though. There was ...
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What it’s all about… | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. What it’s all about…. Welcome to the 1000 Words blog. I am a writer of middle grade and young adult fiction, and I created this blog to share my writing process with you. To learn more about my books, check out my author website here. To learn how to support my writing efforts and free content, check out my Patreon page here. Thanks for stopping by! Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
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Flight: Part 8 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. May 29, 2016. May 29, 2016. His brain was buzzing as he watched the movements of the animals. They were so close. If he took ten paces toward them, he might even be able to touch one. One soft, velvety nose. He imagined what those wings must feel like. Were they like bird’s wings, with hard, thick stalks running through ever feather? Or were they maybe softer, as luscious as those white muzzles he so longed to touch. But not the leader. He did as before, stay...
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Pink: Episode 1, Part 5 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 5. June 8, 2016. I got lost in Grand Central Station. I hadn’t meant to go. I had had my destination clearly in my head. The destination I had counted on to break me out of my reality for years. But when I saw the enormous statues carved into the sides of the building, I stopped and stared, mouth open. I had been to the main computer already, a bank of touch screens raised on platforms where tickets could be purchased. None took cash, bu...
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Pink: Episode 1, Part 6 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 6. June 12, 2016. The line was short, only two boys my age stood ahead of me. A single attendant sat at one of the many windows, glass as thick as my arm shielding her from any harm us on the outside might try to bring. She wore a camouflage uniform, her dark hair slicked back into a tight bun at the back of her head. Next, she droned to the room at large. The boy at the front of the line walked eagerly forward. He said, smirking. Then h...
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Pink: Episode 1, Part 2 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 2. June 2, 2016. June 3, 2016. I scrolled through the other dresses, pretending I was a wealthy woman, able to afford all of these and more if anything were to catch my fancy. The last in the list was bubblegum pink. My hair was colored just a shade darker than the dress, and as I spun in the early morning dawn, tiny crystals in the skirt caught what light there was along the dingy street. Shut up, I said, shoving him. I shrugged. Talkin...
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Pink: Episode 1, Part 1 | J. B. Cantwell
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8211; 1000 Words –. What it’s all about…. Pink: Episode 1, Part 1. May 31, 2016. June 3, 2016. It was the best day to have a birthday, the earliest possible day. Day one of the recruitment. The day I became legally free. Seventeen. But I wasn’t staying. Funny how the government wanted only the best recruits as their soldiers, when so many of them were going to die by the end of the first year anyways. I walked past an advertisement for the enrollment. It was stuck to a brick wall, moss crawling throu...