Here are the directions:
"Sounds like PANIC to me" Writing Contest!
Write a story using 150 words or fewer (note the word count change from the usual 100). Use at least three sets of homonyms (words that sound the same) from the list below...
Out of respect for Mother Nature and Irene, as she approaches, I wrote this micro-story:
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She stood on the pier and faced the
sea that whipped its fury against her cheeks. She would not budge, whether
hurricane or whale lunge for her, or the indignant weather leave its wale
across her flesh. She wailed. Thrust her fist in the air and cried “Whore!”
to the sea that had devoured him.
Her fisher, who three days ago had left
this pier and his hook in her heart, and was swallowed by his bride-sea.
A fissure in her heart widened, but
she reined the two halves together. The sea would not reign her, would not strike
an oar across her shaking calves and send her tumbling into the violent, black-ore
depths.
“You have his flesh,” she shouted into
the deafening rain. “But I have his soul. It was me he gazed at when you pulled
him down to your cold bed. Behind his eyelids, it was me.”
150 words exactly. That was a fun and challenging exercise. Visit Janet's blog to read more of the entries in the comment boxes and to add your own. Contest ends tomorrow (Sunday)!
Leave a comment here for me if you enter the contest so I can go read your story, too!
Leave a comment here for me if you enter the contest so I can go read your story, too!