One Perfect Sentence - The Aspirational August Challenge

[Hannah Faoileán]

"August is the border between Summer and Autumn" - Tove Jansson.

This quote has inspired this month's challenge:

Include the word "border" (noun or verb. Plurals allowed) in your One Perfect Sentence.

The rules are simple:

• Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by the basic rules of English grammar. We will notice if you squeeze unrelated clauses together and pretend it's a sentence, so please don't do it. Your entry will be disqualified and removed.

• Don’t comment on other people's entries – this makes the thread far less readable. If you’d like to make a comment – or if you have a question – then please do so in Café Life, using the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any questions. If you have a question you don't want others to read, please private message me directly.

• You can make as many entries as you want to, but only your entry with the greatest number of votes will win a place (and litbits).

• IMPORTANT: Hooray! Anonymity is back! You MUST make your entry anonymous by ticking the “Posting as Anonymous?” box. Entries that don’t do this will be removed.

Voting will open later this month.

Good luck and get writing!

 

[Anonymous]

While it's easy to pass the border between this world and the next, getting back is like going through Hell.

 

[Anonymous]

“Don’t be afraid, the soldiers in the blue berets won’t try to kill us,” she assured her exhausted, terrified children as they approached the UN peacekeepers manning the border checkpoint.

 

[Anonymous]

The impenetrable border in her mind between happiness and loneliness caused her to lie down for the eternal sleep.

 

[Anonymous]

The fine line between love and hate is a border you don't know you've crossed until it's behind you.

 

[Anonymous]

Born on a border drawn by a ruler, with no one to claim him as theirs, the prince was forced into thievery.

 

[Anonymous]

At the border, she kissed her daughter’s head, knowing the next time she saw her, she’d be a stranger.

 

[Anonymous]

At the border where the forest met the ocean, something waited that knew his name before he was even born.

 

[Anonymous]

She stood at the border, clutching the last letter he ever wrote, knowing that on the other side, he could never cross.

 

[Anonymous]

If she crossed the border she'd be shot, but if she didn't she'd be dead.

 

[Anonymous]

“The borders that matter are those you leap over to grab your dreams,” Grandma said, “the rest aren’t worth crossing.”

 

[Anonymous]

‘Spring could not come any bloody sooner,’ Hades said under his breath as he hoovered the border to the underworld, all the while watching as Persephone chucked another half-chewed pomegranate seed over her shoulder.

 

[Anonymous]

I'd not noticed it until I was about to return the painting to the pile leaning against the charity shop wall, but there was no mistake, for just on the border of the canvas were the scarcely legible letters Picasso.

 

[Anonymous]

My brother lives on the border of insanity, crossing into it every time he feels well enough to skip his medication.

 

[Anonymous]

I was teetering on the border between boredom and the desolate land that lay beyond: calling my ex.

 

[Anonymous]

You can't stay at the border forever: at one point you have to choose between sanity or your mother-in-law.

 

[Anonymous]

"This is plain nuts, suicidal, bordering on lunacy – but come on, let's do it anyway!" she said, and pressed 'Start'.

 

[Anonymous]

The irreversible border between euphoric dancing mania and morning-after regret was somewhere south of the sixth shot of absinthe.

 

[Anonymous]

At the bleak, freezing border post, watched by hard-faced soldiers, the officer sneered as he took all our bribes – and then, smiling, he reached for Josh's cashmere tartan scarf ...

 

[Anonymous]

"The tracker shows you're in Afghanistan now – please get back over the border sharpish!'

 

[Anonymous]

The automated ship raced towards the bulging boarder of the black hole, carrying me to a punishment meant for my twin.

 

[Anonymous]

We stood on the border between our adolescence and adulthood, between ignorance and realisation, between reckless risk and fear of the future, and the certain knowledge that nothing would be the same again.

 

[Anonymous]

In another life, I would have removed all my clothes and told her there are no borders here, but confined by the edges of my experience, I held my tongue and let her walk away.

 

[Anonymous]

‘Go on, step over the border if you dare.’

 

[Anonymous]

With the dig scheduled for August, the right bodies would need clearing from the borders.

 

[Anonymous]

That summer, she would’ve killed for borders like Martha’s, but in August Abbadon arrived and Martha’s borders died in the same terrible way as the woman.

 

[Anonymous]

Unrolling the map with an elegant be-ringed hand, Caerlavrock said: " We'll cross the border as they expect, but not here, not the easy way."

 

[Anonymous]

My aunt Grace observed in passing: 'That man next door spends more time with his herbaceous borders than he does with his wife... and the results are obvious.'

 

[Anonymous]

With an anger that bordered on fury, she stormed into the Editor's office and slapped her resignation letter down on his desk.

 

[Anonymous]

When in the distance they heard the pipes, Blackley, their worst casualty, rallied, and whispered: "Blue Bonnets Ower the Border, the Kosbies are coming..."