The Nifty November Challenge!

[Hannah Faoileán]

This November marks the 130 year anniversary of the accidental discovery of X-rays. To celebrate,

Your theme for November's One Perfect Sentence is Beneath the skin.

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]

Xin stared at her skin, touched it and recoiled from the bumpy, wriggling threads underneath.

 

[Anonymous]

The creature beneath the skin punched its way out and consumed its host.

 

[Anonymous]

The audacity of his blatant lies got under her skin.

 

[Anonymous]

His mask of calm hid his intense desire to bash her head with a baseball bat.

 

[Anonymous]

Here, under his skin, life is good and food is still plenty.

 

[Anonymous]

She gritted her teeth, took a scalpel to the bump and as she expected, a microchip fell into the sink.

 

[Anonymous]

The charming English village with its thatched roofs and rose gardens gave no hint as to the evil entities that stalked the leafy lanes on the cloudless nights of the full moon.

 

[Anonymous]

Acres of farmland and a popping of gunshots in the afternoon distracted neighbours from the woman chained inside a container.

 

[Anonymous]

The nurse gently patted the healthy veteran's hand as she calculated the dose of insulin needed to send them to heaven.

 

[Anonymous]

John discretely blocked his lover's text messages before his wife noticed him constantly looking at his phone.

 

[Anonymous]

That orange fella's non-stop B.S. gets under my skin like a dang boll weevil, always feedin' like he does on plain folks' gullibility 'til there ain't nothin' left for 'em but rot and ruin.

 

[Anonymous]

The way the beetles that had burrowed under my skin made it rise and fall in waves of movement gave a new meaning to the phrase 'making my skin crawl'.

 

[Anonymous]

As I held the knife, my brain wanted to cut the implant out from beneath my skin, but signals from the implant told it to kill my wife instead.

 

[Anonymous]

I stood with legs wide as airport security stared beneath my skin and saw that every bone in my body was metal.

 

[Anonymous]

They promised me I'd look like everyone else on the outside, I just couldn't have anyone look beneath my skin or it would all be over.