1. Check the mainframe. It's a bug!
2. Her perfume. I can smell it.
3. Let go! It will hold you!
4. Robot. What were the test results?
5. Keep it hidden in your pocket.
6. No one is permitted before master.
7. Pick the green one. Trust me!
8. Montgomery: Markings from an ancient race.
9. Enlightening comment: the Earth is round.
10. Sampson sailed single-handedly south Suva sands.
11. Elephants' enormous ears enable easy eavesdropping.
12. Recipe for a hero: self esteem.
13. Death dictates dat dead droves decay.
14. I can't believe you did that.
15. Strange things are afoot, my dear.
16. Smoke is rising from the factory.
17. There were two. Where'd they go?
18. Behold thy mirror, thou bat-fowling harpy!
19. Swim with leeches, thou churlish boar-pig!
20. Bathe thyself, thou reeky, flap-mouthed foot-licker!
Author notes
I justify my use of "dat" (Refer to 13.) with poetic license.
18, 19 and 20 are Shakespearean insults.
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Ha! I saw 18, 19 and 20 and before I even read the author's note I was like "Yup, Shakespearean insults." One of my favorite things to do is to take my little composition sheet and put together strings and columns of those lovely little stingers.
Awesome job. The alliterative ones were quite funny.
beginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5, characters: 5.
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Good attempt
I like eleven the best. It really tests your skills trying to use one beginning letter
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hee!
I like your "justification."
Favorite one:
"Her perfume. I can smell it." because it seems so potentially SINISTER! Like, the woman's hiding from this crazed killer and she's got the perfect hiding place where he'll NEVER find her, but then she realizes that she's wearing Chanel Number Five and the killer can smell it because part of that perfume's selling points is that IT NEVER WEARS OFF EVER.
Or it could be some boring love thing. BUT I LIKE MY EXAMPLE BETTER. *grins*
Great job.
Oh, I also like the 'hero' line. Because it's so true! What hero DOESN'T have self esteem? How can you fight a hydra if you're like, "my hips are so fat in this toga!" I tell you how, YOU CAN'T.
Um. Too much sugar. Must. Calm. Down.
hehehe
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