Constraint Stories

A new collection of poems written by Olan L. Smith starting 2023; all right's reserved.

Akiko's almond-shaped eyes, with a glint of mystery, met Kaito's for a fleeting moment. In that exchange, an unspoken connection sparked like flint striking steel. ...

This is a tutorial on making physics simulations using Verlet Integration. This is intended to work for basically any programming language, and contains snippets of pseu...

Just some words depicting the love this heart harbours for him,my beautiful love,Mon Belle Amour.

Proses are red. Poetry's blue. The writer's doggerel's a tale of woe.

**Hint: It's something that people do everyday Interpretation is up to you, if i divulge the name of the antagonist (which is a matter not a person), it will probably ma...

A short story

Annabel started out as a comment on another poet's work, and that poet suggest I post it; I did. Now, it has taken many forms and I thought it best to keep track of this...

Hailing from India, I've been exposed to people from varied economic strata. Always had a knick for interacting with different people, this is my first attempt at pennin...

The following articles are essays on how to write poetry, by Olan L. Smith, aka Cotton Jones. I was asked to write these article for Wattpad's Poets Pub's Handbook for P...

Changeling poetry is constraint form I believe I have created, but i also know nothing is new under the sun so if you are familiar with this form let me know. i call it...

Nova Pierce flipped on the TV to cartoon network and ate her cereal when she was interrupted * Safren has now officially declared war, the king is now calling in all spe...

Calum Hood Imagine:) enjoy:3 This story idea is based off the book 'Breathing Under Water', in that note, you should read that book! :D

An iambic pentameter using a "ABABCDCDEFEFGG" rhyme scheme I had to make for my sophomore English class. The topic I had was about "hands" so I didn'...

The place unknown to most people, unlike you. You may think that you have never heard of it, but I have told you over and over and over again. You know what constraint i...

Corra her whole life has been told that she was human, she has been living a lie, everything has been happening for a reason. The truth comes to the surface when she mee...

This is my first etheree constraint poem.

This is my second Diamante poem I have written. The theme is opposites; end and beginning as you must know the beginning to face the end. Love, peace and freedom, Olan