The Magnificent March Challenge!

[Hannah Faoileán]

The Magnificent March Challenge

150 years ago, on a cold day in March, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. This has inspired my choice for this month's challenge: Include the word "communicate" (or derivatives thereof) 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 5th April. Good luck and get writing!

 

[Anonymous]

The only way he knew how to communicate was with his Magnum .44.

 

[Anonymous]

The little white dalek looked different somehow - and it was repeating, as if to itself, "Communicate, communicate, communicate...'

 

[Anonymous]

'Ah-hoy,' Alexander shouted down the line of his new-fangled communication device, only for Thomas to heave a huge sigh, This malarky will never catch on.

 

[Anonymous]

Jacinda took a last swig of the slightly saline spirit as the comms wailed a relentless beep-beep-beep, red lights flashing across the hull, and swallowing the gulp said, 'Santi saw everything, this is how life ends.'

 

[Anonymous]

I didn't get past "Deeply regret to inform you..." before the communiqué burst into flame in my hands.

 

[Anonymous]

The bell rang loud clang, clang, clang, and the same emergency signal was faintly heard from farther away bells, clang, clang, clang, and then the mayday communication came back with chilling news, for no help was close and the ship was sinking fast.

 

[Anonymous]

The pair communicated back and forth via letters, angry and manipulating, meek and pacifying, the weeks blurring into months, years into decades, until one day he was out and she feared for her life.

 

[Anonymous]

Miscommunication is the curse of mankind.

 

[Anonymous]

A blinding light, a blast wave and the wood-wide-web communicated, but the vast conifers could only sway as the ground-dwelling toothless beaked birds scuttled in the wake of Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops.

 

[Anonymous]

I wanted to communicate that I was not the enemy, but he'd already decided I was about to spout shit.

 

[Anonymous]

My fingertips swept the face, communicating where sight could not, and when I reached the mouth, I slipped a digit inside to find set of serrated incisors, but at the crunch of bone, my scream shattered the stillness of the small hours.

 

[Anonymous]

My dear Harold, your communication of April asked that I marry you, but as you died March just gone I must decline at this time.

 

[Anonymous]

After his third drink, Wilfred wondered if he'd regret having neglected to post the communique agreeing to a ceasefire with Russia.

 

[Anonymous]

At the voicemail greeting, he exhaled, 'Please, Sal, just communicate with me, and if you don't, I won't stop for a single day of what's left of your pathetic excuse for a life.'

 

[Anonymous]

Brenda, crossing the stage, pointed at a young man, 'Someone's trying to communicate with a name beginning with D, E, V or I, no he's a bit aggy now, he say's you'll know him by Old Harry.'

 

[Anonymous]

Using only her beautiful dark eyes, she was communicating clearly:
a good walk, then some dinner, please.