Make a Missile Note!

The purpose of the Missile Notes blog is to inspire productivity in the form of creative writing by showcasing motivated textual developers on a day to day basis. Please feel free to read the day's prompt (the first post of every day), write for ten minutes about your interpretation of the prompt, and e-mail me your free write if you would like to share it with the other visitors of Missile Notes. Hopefully, this site will provide an encouraging atmosphere in which writers of every level of experience and stature can stimulate their minds daily. For more detailed information about Missile Notes, view this blog entry! E-mail me at missilenotes@gmail.com to submit a free write!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

"Love Is War" By Matt Rudie

Classified beyond all reason
Kept hidden all year, all four seasons
Until it was time to send out the truth
A bottle is the messenger, no phone no booth
The empty wine, that tonight has drowned my sorrow
Will be used as a weapon you will face tomorrow
Its important that the message stays confidential
For leaked to the wrong ears could be quite consequential
The briefing from you to me made quite clear so long ago
This vendetta of mine in this message will forever flow
I’m no war hero like William Wallace with the gift of a thistle
I’m a coward who must send my message hidden in both a bottle and missile
The sidewinder will find its goal
To this I have no concern
My reconnaissance team knows your heart and sole
I pray to God for a direct hit, crash and burn
Locked on now no turning back
This empty bottle of wine and missile, my own weapon rack
I press the red button it’s sent and thats a fact
Hold onto your heart prepare for impact.

Prompt 31

Write about a message in a bottle in a missile.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

"Untitled" by Will Lewis

Damn, he's tall! No wonder things get done around here. I've been hearing about this "tallest man in the world" town for some time, and I wasn't necessarily sure what to make of the flower baskets hung on the streetlights as I made my way into town. Couldn't really make my mind up over the fifteen foot basketball hoop mounted to the "Welcome to Frensberg" sign, or the ladderless fire engine that I noticed upon passing the Frensberg Fire Station. Damn. The town met my expectations for "world's biggest dog," too, but I wasn't all that impressed with the "world's smallest combustion engine." They weren't able to demonstrate because it was sealed in a glass case, so I doubt it worked. Anyways, hope you're having fun manning the fort. We'll start back north after we witness the "world's ugliest frog" tomorrow and get ourselves fueled at the "world's shittiest restaurant," McDonald's. Give Axel my love!

<3 Jeremy

"Untitled" by DJ Maltron

"Damn, he's tall!"


"Quite, but not as tall as he will be! You see, with the Ubermensch Initiative, we can push humanity to its truest potentials. By implementing our synthetic organs and limbs, while manipulating how specific genes will act, we have the ability to cross all sorts of physical boundaries.

"Daniel here, standing at eleven feet, two inches, may be the tallest man on earth. However, after the seventy-three hour procedure, he will stand at a towering eighteen feet!"


"Well that's...interesting."


"What? Are you not impressed?"


"No, yeah, it's impressive to be sure. I guess I'm just trying to figure out why. I mean, are we going to to put him to work trimming trees? I just don't understand why we can't be content at our current height. Why must we 'cross physical boundaries' just for its own sake?"


"Well we're on the path the the Ubermensch! It's in our name and everything! We need to perfect humanity so that we can become something more!"


"Yeah, see, I'm not sure you're really grasping that concept. I don't think we're supposed to be striving to become a species of giants, I think we're supposed to be looking to have a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us."


"Well... You're probably right and everything, but we kind of already have the ball rolling on this one, so, we'll probably stick with it... Still want to invest?"

"Larger Than Life!" by Josh Rambeau

"Damn, he's tall"
So tall when he jumped outta
the plane he didn't fall
he just hit the ground runnin
tripped over some mountains
and started to crawl
started to crawl into the sea
went so deep he created a Tsunami
but he was only knee deep
with his head in the clouds
you couldn't see he
was dreamin of the day he
could come back down to earth
its hard to live above the
the things we love when we
live to be larger than life
we only find a lifetime of strife
lets shrink back down to actual size
and rise back up to the place we belong
and know that being yourself is the real prize

Prompt 29

Begin a free write with "Damn, he's tall!"

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

"Untitled" by Josh Rambeau

It is so strange how so much depends on our perspectives. Its been countless days since i've seen the light of the sun. And if it had been any other way it might not have lasted so long but in this particular instance my brain will not tell my arm to reach for the door and twist. I will waste away before I see the light of day again. I bask in the soft glow of a dim bulb that sits in the corner of wasteland. I smile though i know not why. Is it peace of mind? Is it the hope of something better? Or is it because it is just simply easier to smile while you're upside down? Or maybe it is simply because the height of this high is finally wearing off? Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to open the door.

"Untitled" by Will Lewis

I looked around as I stumbled through the front door. I wasn't exactly sure of what was outside... I mean, may not have even been all that scary. But, being the pale, writing type, I was much more inclined to explore the recesses of reality through my mind rather than through the actual recesses of reality.

The television had been left on and I wondered by who. And then I wondered as to why there was a television in my house along with a vidcon console, a pile of beef jerky, and an air freshener plugged into the wall. I do not watch television, I stay away from anything digital (or visual, for that matter), I'm a vegetarian, and I'm allergic to traces of chemicals in dryer sheets even. What was all this doing in my single bedroom, single resident home, and who the hell put it here?

Through the static of the television I could see some sort of forest scene, stagnant and motionless aside from the layer of white noise filtering over the image and the steadily moving humanoid figure centered on the screen. Looking down, I noticed that the vidcon console was also left on. At least, that's what I tend to assume when a red light is flashing on the top of an electronic box.

I heard a crash and realized that commotion was still brewing outside. I peered through the blinds to see twenty cyclists rush past the sidewalk out front, obscuring a large man who was walking directly towards my home. I panicked, closed the blinds, turned off the lights, and ran for the front door. As my hand clutched the knob, I was stricken by the oversized wooden plank and subsequently struck the back of my head on the wall. The large, bearded man trudged into my home wearing a large brown leather duster, sporting a wildly rough, unshaven, and untrimmed curly black mop on his face and head. I wouldn't have been able to describe much more due to the slow, but incredibly large strides he demonstrated right through the threshold of my house. Who the h

Prompt 28

Write about the front door.