The Fabulous February Challenge!

[Hannah Faoileán]

I'm giving just one week to enter the Fabulous February Challenge (well, it's a shorter month, and I'm a busy person). As the love-month slips by, the challenge is to include the word "cherish" (plural and past tense also acceptable) 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 the Café Life thread under the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any general 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 close midnight (BST) Sunday 1st March. Good luck and get writing!

 

[Anonymous]

They would cherish this moment until the fallout melted their eyeballs.

 

[Anonymous]

I think many younger women are more laddish, and may well cherish football, beer and bawdy jokes, but these ladies are a different, older generation who are mainly interested in following the soaps and dramas, and drinking tea with two teaspoons of sugar.

 

[Anonymous]

Pippa would cherish her fleeting memories with Amanda until the day she died, but for now, she did as the vampire ordered and handed her newborn over to him, saying, "Please, please take me instead?"

 

[Anonymous]

To cherish Stephen was to love the devil.

 

[Anonymous]

People should cherish time with their growing families before life blows their nests to pieces.

 

[Anonymous]

Sometimes we cherish people who break our heart.

 

[Anonymous]

The Jones' cherish their family time at Christmas, and their savage tradition--a game of paintball in the backyard.

 

[Anonymous]

Tina will always cherish her pop and how tough he'd been to survive the Burma Railway.

 

[Anonymous]

He cherished her, he would say, pleading, repentant, after every beating, and by his lights this wasn't a lie, which made his surprise all the greater when one day at the end of winter she knifed him, just below the heart, while he was frying eggs she'd said she didn't want.

 

[Anonymous]

Cherish nothing, I say, nothing at all but the soft grasses under blue skies, the sleeping cat upon my chest, and the dappled shade of the pomelo tree.

 

[Anonymous]

Naked, sweating lovers gripped each other tighter as the starcruiser  Cherish engaged its Valentine drive and sent pleasure waves throughout the ship.

 

[Anonymous]

Cherish the little one for she shall extinguish Daystar, casting darkness upon us all.

 

[Anonymous]

Cherish he said, and cherish I did until forsook so I took his last breath.

 

[Anonymous]

"I shall cherish the memories – goodbye," she said as she pushed him, still arguing, out of the door.

 

[Anonymous]

Naming the little stray cat Cherish was serious wishful thinking, for not only had she clearly had a hard life, she was a hissing bundle of claws and teeth, garnished with fleas.

 

[Anonymous]

I cherish how your reflection smiles a second too late.

 

[Anonymous]

I cherish the creature which wears your face.

 

[Anonymous]

A soon as I felt the clock ticking on my life, I learnt how to cherish time.

 

[Anonymous]

The lock of hair kept in an envelope, the handkerchief that still carried a hint of his aftershave, his ring finger, all cherished memories of my first kill.

 

[Anonymous]

My cats don't cherish me, they cherish their food.

 

[Anonymous]

There's a certain kind of person, often an older relative, who'll tell you to "cherish the time" because "it goes so quick", which is all at once trite, achingly true, and difficult to credit when, with the fearful cadence of tiny feet, your kids creep into bed beside you, and then kick you awake all night long.

 

[Anonymous]

While Woody had always dreamed of someday becoming a dining room table, a quick glance in the mirror proved he was more "chair-ish."

 

[Anonymous]

Bill's mom raised him to cherish the food put in front of him, but he had to admit that after their spat, she was kind of stringy and bitter tasting.

 

[Anonymous]

"Cherish the memories," they said at her funeral, and I searched my library of recollection to find even one on the cherish shelf, but they were all on the pain-and-please-forget shelf, so I left the church and let them all go.

 

[Anonymous]

Cherish the golden years before Death kicks you in the nads.

 

[Anonymous]

"Cherish, you?"

 

[Anonymous]

'Please, cherish her,' the woman said as her grip slipped, the current dragging her under.

 

[Anonymous]

Cherish diamonds; they’re stronger than the faithless.

 

[Anonymous]

The Valentine's Day dance had a Madonna theme, but she decided a Cher-ish costume would be more appropriate.