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One Perfect Sentence The Ominous October Challenge!

Our Monthly Micro-Writing Contest

Hannah Faoileán

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October: approaching Halloween or Samhain, so for this ominous challenge, I am giving you a picture prompt (just a wee photo I took in the woods!) You may interpret this picture in any way you wish as long as it is 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 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. But don't do it here. Head over to the One Perfect Sentence (OPS) forum and post your entries there.

One Perfect Sentence - The Ominous October Challenge
 

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