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Fanfare! One Perfect Sentence - October Winners!

AgentPete

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I’m delighted to announce the winners of October’s One Perfect Sentence competition!
This month, we made all the entries anonymous, so there was no possibility of favouritism. The votes simply reflected your own unfiltered perception of the entries.
However, I’ve just unmasked the entrants, and I’m thrilled to give you the results! As you remember, the writing prompt was - "your best closing sentence for a book in the Romance genre".

FIRST PLACE​

"Decades later, when he could no longer remember my name, I told him our story."​

SECOND PLACE​

“In a manner of speaking, superintendent, the ring choked him – because someone forced him to swallow it.”​




THIRD PLACE​

"She kissed me on the lips and said those three little words I'd been longing to hear since I was a little girl: Mars has women."​



SPECIAL MENTION​

"I search his eyes for sarcasm, perhaps a hint of teasing, but all I see is love, shining strong thirty years on."​


@Mel L



Prizes have been awarded as follows:
1st place: 100 LitBits
2nd place: 50 LitBits
3rd place: 25 LitBits
Special mention: 10 LitBits

I still haven’t explained what LitBits are… All in good time…!

Well done, everyone, for entering and voting... next month's contest starts on the 7th - watch out for it!
 

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