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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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One Sentences

SnowStars's picture
Submitted by SnowStars on August 15, 2008 - 15:08.

i. The rain throws me into a panic, hasty scrawls taking the place of manicured penmanship, before I twist, tossing my crinkled page into the breeze, before it floats away like a fragile bit of ash caught in the swirling smoke.

ii. The forest was tense, waiting breathlessly for the impending implosion.

Turquoise Wishes's picture

I love the first one. The

Submitted by Turquoise Wishes on August 15, 2008 - 15:13.

I love the first one. The "fragile bit of ash" is great. For a one sentence it gives a plot of a story.

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"It's like the darkness in the light."
-Rihanna, Disturbia.

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