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.

 

[Anonymous]

The shifting scenery — and its mingling scents of tilled soil, ripe crops, manure, and drifting wood smoke — seemed to stretch and compress time itself, and my anxiety was being similarly accordioned.

 

[Anonymous]

Our choices, once made and actioned, write how inevitable they were before we conceived of them.

 

[Anonymous]

His surname was Chalk, and it suited him — not that he appeared weak or apt to crumble, but you wouldn’t want to have to bite him and feel his texture between your teeth.

 

[Anonymous]

Izzla the witch cackled over her bubbling cauldron, saying, "and the finishing touch, two fresh eyeballs."

 

[Anonymous]

Nobody wanted Doggo because he looks as though he'd been assembled in the dark from random dog parts – but I couldn't resist him.

 

[Anonymous]

This sentence has sixty-nine consonants and thirty-four vowels, three commas, two hyphens, seventeen spaces and one full stop.

 

[Anonymous]

If they'd realised their kindness was the very spark that created a monster in me, would they have had the power to go against their own natures?

 

[Anonymous]

I found out, too late, what it took to create a monster.

 

[Anonymous]

Eye of toad and tongue of newt, lightning flash and smelly boot, dead to living soon you'll be, with one life-giving master - me!

 

[Anonymous]

Give us a pandemic, hours of isolation, months of boredom and tension born of confinement, and watch the monsters come out to play.

 

[Anonymous]

From the day he was born, I knew I had spawned a monster, but I cherished him every moment until they took him from me sixteen years later.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Competition is closed for entries.