One Perfect Sentence -The Scintillating September Challenge

[Hannah Faoileán]

On our way from August to September, we passed Frankenstein's birthday. This (thank you, Mary Shelley) gave me inspiration for this month's challenge:

Your theme for the September's One Perfect Sentence is Creating a Monster. You do not need to use these words (though you may if you wish), but your one perfect sentence must adhere to the theme.


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: 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]

"There isn't a monster under your bed, unless you've conjured it up yourself, out of your imagination, so go back to sleep now."

 

[Anonymous]

The people didn't know it, but they had not only created a monster, but elected him to office.

 

[Anonymous]

"He lives in the toybox," she shouted through tears, "and throws my toys at me, and then he laughs when I tell him that Mummy and Daddy said to stop making so much noise."

 

[Anonymous]

'How many people do I have to kill before I start to feel like a monster?'

 

[Anonymous]

I'm afraid that by fearing a mobocracy, we created an electoral system that created a monster.

 

[Anonymous]

"Welcome to the School of Serial Killers," the teacher said with a smile.

 

[Anonymous]

" I am afraid the Emperor has created a monster in his daughter," one courtier said to another, wearily, as they attended the execution of Turandot's latest unsuccessful suitor.

 

[Anonymous]

The execution of Superego was swift and merciless, in contrast to the agonizing demise of Ego, leaving only the monstrous Id in supremacy.

 

[Anonymous]

‘Don’t worry, the only monsters are the ones in there,’ Mum said as she tapped my forehead, and that, it turned out, would be the problem.

 

[Anonymous]

Living on the edge of the anicent forest, it was the villagers' own fears that gave shape to the deep, dark shadows that lurked there.