Raistlin Allen
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Quality of Life. Runner-Up in The Life-Extending Conundrum Challenge.
It started with world-renowned reality show star and pilates instructor Patty Faynor. On Good Morning America in the year 2027, she sat down and announced to a skeptical crowd that she had found The Perfect Diet.
By Raistlin Allen12 months ago in Longevity
Beauty In The Mess
When I write, I usually tend to type the whole thing up on my laptop, and then make passes over the same document to edit. As a result, I am not in the habit of keeping my rough drafts. For this prompt I thought, where's something where I've left behind evidence of the process itself , both the beauty- the final product- and the mess that final product wouldn't exist without? One is not possible without the other, but it took some searching to find evidence of the latter anywhere.
By Raistlin Allen12 months ago in Critique
Dominus
I was a gladiator when you found me. I was living in close quarters day after day, smelling the stink of others' unwashed bodies- fighting them for space. Each day we were sent out to struggle for our lives while the nobility watched. We glistened with the fear-sweat of adrenaline as the cheers rolled over us from on high. Our pain was their pleasure. But I don't think it was ever yours. You'd known too much of pain to take pleasure in anyone else’s.
By Raistlin Allenabout a year ago in History
A Spell For Nostalgia. Honorable Mention in A Taste of Home Challenge.
My mom died when she was only 53 from Ovarian Cancer. I was the eldest of my siblings at 23, and though the time we had her with us feels far too little far too often, I often feel lucky to have known her the longest. I was the only one whose college graduation she got to attend. Her favorite hobbies in life were working out and making food- whether that was cooking or baking. For someone in as good a shape as she was in to die so young just proves that fate is unfair and how long we have is completely unpredictable even if we take good care of ourselves.
By Raistlin Allenabout a year ago in Feast
Indivisible. Honorable Mention in The Moment That Changed Everything Challenge.
By twelve, a lot of kids have been through things they shouldn't in an ideal world, have to go through, have already had those formative moments of innocence-stripping done to them. That wasn't the case for me. At 12, I was still very much a kid. Until I wasn’t.
By Raistlin Allenabout a year ago in The Swamp
School Pictures. Honorable Mention in Through the Lens Challenge.
I only went to school here for half a year. There shouldn't be that much to say. Yet when I saw the school blocked off from the roadway by a pelt of grass, grown in over the past decade, despite driving past so many times before, this time I turned and went searching for it, the lost way in.
By Raistlin Allenabout a year ago in Photography
Making it Hard to Fail
My project for the new year is not a creative 'project' persay so much as it is a psychological experiment on myself. The Quest for Imperfection, maybe. The Year of Compounding Small Actions. Sticking an arm outside of my comfort zone instead of my whole body- and who knows- maybe more of my body will be out there by the end of the year, but even if it's not it'll be an arm more than it was before.
By Raistlin Allenabout a year ago in Motivation
