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Start your story with someone making a vision board.

Posted in Adults on Dec 30, 2022

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Rural Route 12: The Beverly Meeks Clinical Research Facility

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Beverly Meeks determined long ago that if she couldn’t find Mr. Wonderful, by God she was going to create him, and she even had the vision boards from over the years which proved her lifelong devotion to the cause.Beverly had first dreamt of marrying the perfect man as a little girl pretending to wed the tux-clad family dog. The years of her youth were spent plotting out her elaborate wedding and her dream life, but as a teen and 20-something, she had hit a wall. However, despite a constant volley of first-and-only-dates and failed relations...

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Whelmed

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It’s been five years since Tabitha totally and completely finished with school, but tonight she has homework. It’s due tomorrow. She’s put it off all week.She places a piece of plain, white letter-size printer paper on her coffee table, in landscape orientation. She sits tall, smooths out the paper, and then smooths out her shirt. And then, smooths out the paper again. She rotates it to the left just a bit, because it’s not centred, and then to the right again. And then she smooths it out once more. Satisfied, she gets up and pours herself w...

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Escapee on Mars

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TW: Swearing.Detective Arthas Jacques’ swipes moved images from the network to his visual explanation of Marvel’s character, Vision. “He was created by Tony Stark, who is Iron Man,” said the grown man with the tangible excitement of a toddler who’s heard the ice cream truck. “Why are they hand drawn when you showed me video?” asked Agent Belle Nguyen of the Mars Security Agency. “They’re from the comics, the video you saw was from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He typed in the air. Words appeared amongst the holographic mess of his eclectic ...

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

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Between the narrow slivers of sunlight at dawn and the hazy feel of the old apartment, Saki looked up at the decorative glass board. Perched neatly between her broken-down twin size bed and rustic vanity, it almost always felt out of place. She glanced over at her digital alarm clock, wiping away a layer of constant dust with her index finger. 6:59. One minute remaining.       As if anticipating her arrival, the clock rang on cue and Saki looked up. Small holographic displays popped up throughout the board, fill...

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Try

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“New Year Resolutions are the dumbest things” Kali said as she sipped her glass of white wine with an eye roll.   I just made a shrug at her comment. It had stemmed from her catching a glimpse at my phone that had a google search of ‘how to make new year's resolutions happen’ and had stumbled into ‘how to make a vision board’. I found an app and started making one on my phone.   “They are” she insisted.   Kali had short almost black, brown hair, hazel eyes and wore makeup to look like she wasn’t wearing makeup. She had natural...

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What About Math Club?

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I never imagined it would be this warm on New Year’s Day, even out west at Aunt Sarah’s place. The view from my new room isn’t just beautiful, it’s serene. Cornell Road and the stately houses across the street, and the woods and hills beyond – it’s like one of those idyllic storybooks I used to read in grade school and imagine my life was in one of those imaginary towns, instead of my dirty and gritty hometown with all its unemployment and gangs and worse. Little did I know then that I would get my wish before I was even into high school...

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A Woman’s World

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Sensitive content: contains allusions to sexual violence, substance abuse, physical abuse, suicide and adult language. A Woman’s World Sophia stood back, admiring her work. Driven by a surge of creativity and moved by decisiveness, she had spent the last 6 hours consumed by rage, planning a future that would be worth living for. Sophia was past the point of exhaustion, having not slept properly since the ’incident’. Yet, in her tiredness and hopelessness, she mustered a vision for the year ahead. This year, they would not win. The visio...

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Unspoken Words

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Sally Walkers is a mute young woman who's in love with her neighbor Pete. She doesn't know if he feels the same way as her, having always avoided the conversation, fearing for the worse. She's known how she truly felt towards him since he moved there a year ago. In her living room is a large vision board, decorated with pictures of him and scattered information about his day to day habits. Sally herself thought of the situation as unrequited love. She didn't think she was beautiful enough for him, and thought the way she dressed contrasted w...

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California Beaches

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The bubbly champagne trickles down her throat as Piper gazes onto Santa Monica’s beach from her hotel suite.  It was new year’s eve and she had nowhere else to go so she bought herself a nice hotel room overlooking the ocean.  Sitting on her balcony she hears the waves crashing, sees the palm trees swaying, and hears the tourists laughing.  It’s her birthday.  She finally has enough money to buy a hotel room somewhere nice.  Somewhere she had dreamed of going all her life.  When Piper was in high school she al...

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Vision Board Adventures

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2023 Vision Board Adventures Piles of magazines filled the family room coffee table, the dining room table, and a plastic bin overfilled laying on the floor. As I prepared for the first and only ever vision board party with my sisters and my mom, I was filled with excitement and anticipation of creating a vision of my future. I was captivated by the idea of vision boards – I had done the research and was enamored by the idea that just visualizing your dreams and goals will be achieved.  As my family entered the house, I had ...

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Crisis and Opportunity

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Jess looked at her completed vision board and was excited for the year to come. She looked at her three main parts, the largest parts by far. A large four bedroom house complete with a quarter acre lawn and a white picket fence. It was a perfect house to house a perfect family. Speaking of family, to the bottom right of the house was a picture of a tall, dark handsome man with a dress shirt slightly open to reveal a chest that would put most marines to shame and the faint outline of rock hard abs underneath. She had taken the picture from a ...

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Tis a Gift to Live Simply

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           Stepping back from the colorful display, Caroline Winters surveyed her work. Pictures, quotes, inspirational messages, a poem clipped out of a magazine; it reminded her vaguely of a collage she had made in the fifth grade for career day.             Eyes drawn toward the center of the arrangement, she whispered the words,                 &...

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Grace Woke Him.

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Josh stared at his vision board, as he lay on his bed. "I am a good man." So how was he going to get there? This was today, he woke up in a drug rehab. It had all been too easy to get there, now it was up to him to change. Becoming a party animal was the easiest thing Josh Sampson had ever had to do. One day, he was the hometown hero, the local suburban boy who had made it big in league football. Josh was a media sensation, a pin-up boy. He was champion goal kicker, always relied on to swing a game off his own boot. By now, he was nearly t...

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You’re a Vision, Sis

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Nellie extends her hand toward me, a magazine clipping of Joshua Bassett between her index and middle fingers. She’s making a face–her nose scrunched up over strawberry-glossed lips that purse when she asks, “This is your celebrity husband? The guy you want to bring into the new year with you?” I quickly draw a square around the perimeter of the photo with a glue stick before going back in and filling the middle with more glue.  I roll my eyes, unable or unwilling to talk around the bottom of the glue stick between my teeth as I proces...

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Turning Dreams Into Visions

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Sarah sat in front of the blank cork board with her hands folded over her chest. She had never succumbed to this silly tradition before; she couldn’t imagine how throwing some keywords up on a wall would help pull her out of her streak of terrible luck. The past five years had been nothing but heartbreak and hard work. She was tired and ready to try just about anything to get out of the rut she was in. Including, apparently, starting her first-ever vision board. She rolled her eyes at herself and picked up the first goal she’d cut out of t...

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