Category Challenge 3: Mark My Words
Challenge #3: Mark My Words
Alright, folks, so for this challenge we’re going to loosen the rules a little bit (sorry, Micah). You’re going to write an 700-word prose piece that must contain all of the following words: ink, silent, alive, consider, dress, incongruity, tender, onion, patients/patience, ephemeral, trumpet, prowess, almond/raspberry, viscose, skin, summation, watertight That’s it. No rhyme scheme, […]
Mark My Words: Micah
Sam noticed them from the street. And as they walked into the building the rest of his family saw them and fell immediately silent. Three words written a foot high in black ink: FUCK THIS PLACE.
Mark My Words: Remy
Something to consider: we have made it a few weeks since you sliced your thumb along with the onion in my kitchen that night we had another argument.
Mark My Words: Andie
Viktor Wentworthington shared his silent misery with Sally Burns of West Valley, Virginia through silent, ink-dripped letters that held in them the faint scent of caramelized onion. He had 52 years and a failed marriage behind him. Alberta hadn’t been the love of his life, but she’d been his life for 43 years before cheating […]
Mark My Words: Ulysses
I was poisoned, I’m certain!
Mark My Words: Moira
It was my last summer at the sleep away camp I had been attending for the past six summers. It was a summer of incongruity – I was about to enter my first year of high school and felt a bit old for the juvenile lifestyle of camp, yet, I didn’t feel ready to leave […]
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