Callum Hicks, 12New York, NY Static Callum Hicks, 12 The electric blue buzz of the computer screens. The soft hum of the machines keeping us alive. An evil cackle of a monster behind me, casting a shadow on the cold concrete. Snap. My legs break in half like breadsticks. The masks I am wearing. They let me breathe. Living history as if it’s some sort of consolation. The shrill voices. Crackle. The pressure. Ping-ding-ring. The drone. Zoomzoomzoomzoomzoomzoomzoomzoomzoom. The whir of white noise. Zzz. Zzz. Zzz. Author’s note: The poem plays on both definitions of the word “static.” It’s about the sounds of quarantine during Coronavirus and also the fact that I had to stay in one place. I thought quarantine would be quiet and boring but it has been the polar opposite! I wanted to convey the loudness and chaos of my quarantine experience. With all of the FaceTimes and the Zoom calls and the texts and emails, it’s been overwhelming.
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Daily Creativity #81 | Flash Contest: Write an Unsettling Poem
Create a poem with an eerie or creepy tone. You can make the poem as nonsensical or as relatable as possible, but retain the sense of being unsettled throughout. This is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can submit it to our Weekly Flash Contest, via Submittable! Editor’s note: For this week’s Daily Creativity prompts, we’ve got a special takeover! Liam Hancock, Stone Soup reader and contributor, has written the five prompts we’ll be posting throughout the week. For today’s, which is the week’s Flash Contest, he will also be co-judge!
Coronavirus as a Supervillain, drawing by Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, 9
Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, 9San Jose, CA Coronavirus as a Supervillain Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, 9 This drawing was made in response to our Daily Creativity prompt #73, in which former contributor Anna Rowell asked our readers to imagine what Coronavirus would look like if it were a supervillain. Coronavirus as a Supervillain by Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, 9
