"Anything is possible, you know?"
Bending back in the chair, Mark looked over his shoulder at the girl sitting behind him in study hall. "Care to explain that?"
"Delighted to," Teresa said with a smile. "Everything that happens does so for a reason, right?"
Frowning, Mark gave her a look to prompt her on. Giving him a sigh, Teresa tapped a hand on her leg as she considered how to make him understand what she was strongly hinting at.
He'd never actually had someone in his life that loved him the way that Teresa had, so she was at a definite disadvantage already. If he only knew the happiness that could come from letting down his guard just enough to let someone in, then maybe he'd be able to see how better off he’d be with someone to care for him, be there when things got rough, through good times and bad, in sickness and health, forsaking all others, until… shaking herself out of her musings, she gave him a lame smile as she leaned over to take a book from her backpack, moving numerous poetry books and teen magazines to the side as she rooted around for what she was looking for.
"Just imagine," she said, straightening as she placed a small book on her desk. "Kind of like-"
"Like what?" Mark interrupted. "Not to be rude here, but why are you trying to hook me up with what's-her-face anyway?"
Opening her book, Teresa took a picture out and handed it to Mark who turned back in his seat to study the image from not too long ago. People he knew stared back at him, bringing a shrug as he turned back and tossed the picture on the desk.
"Quit beating around the bush," he said, "and just tell me why you want to tell me, so I can tell you to mind your own business." Raising an eyebrow in challenge, he stared, waiting for her to explain.
Sucking on her lip briefly, she decided to tell him. "This," she said as she motioned to the picture, "is a picture of my Halloween party last year. Unless you've forgotten, you made a little promise to a certain someone on that day to be her date for the next masquerade."
"Very interesting," Mark replied, his tone showing that it was anything but. "What does this have to do with the fact that you're trying to set me up on a date with," he trailed off and smirked. "Xena."
"You know that Wanda is not Xena.... she just, well, she's just convinced that she's the reincarnation of a fictional TV warrior; harmless, really."1
Zoning her out, Mark turned away, going back to what he had been originally doing before the interruption; sketching yet another image of 'Wanda, Warrior Princess'. 2
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Author notes
Damn... it's harder than it looks.
Contest description:
1. First sentence starts with A, the next with B, the next with C, then each successive sentence begins with the remaining letters in alphabetical order.
2. There should be no more than 26 sentences.
3. There needs to be one 100-word sentence.
4. There needs to be one fragment, or incomplete sentence (only 1, please).
A contest entry
- ABC Challenge by angellove.
650 points, ended October 26, 2008, 7 entries
Honorable winner
• next story in this contest, remove from contest
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THIS WAS AMAZING!!! No seriously it was really really good. I love how your sentences flowed naturally even with those really restricted rules. The Letter starting each sentence made the story better, not take away from it. Great great piece!
Illuminated *KT*
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LOL...it IS harder than it looks...
especially that 100 word sentence!! Great job...IMHO..but then..I'm new...so what do I know???
...Best wishes in the contests!!
Write on!
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Thanks I wrote this in about ten minutes... the easiest ones were actually the x and z to do....
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Oh haha - I just got the point of the story format. Neat work, Barb, very neat.
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Thanks. It's harder to write than it looks... you should give it a go.
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Ha? Me? I'd struggle for a week before getting something like this down ... but thanks for the suggestion - I just might.
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You have two "W" sentences, but otherwise it's very good. You have an interesting storyline here also. The 100-word sentence was a bit awkward in its punctuation, but I liked it; you turned it into a stream of consciousness thought she was having.
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Thanks... I edited it while you were reading... the spacing got messed up, and while doing that, I noticed my double W's.. so I changed it. I'm not a fan of long sentences, so it was torture (:
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I can be very long-worded, and sometimes comma happy, so I loved that part of the challenge.
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I had to edit.... Apparently, in my alphabet, it goes t-u-v-w-x-w-y-z.
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