Word-Quest

Indulge yourself, find yourself, lose yourself; roll in the riches of words upon words, painting pictures and questioning thoughts...

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Its so hard to believe there are only 26 characters for all our thoughts...

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My English homework was a horror story for children in ten simple sentences. Here goes...

The sky was blacker than black. The moon did not exist. The stars were pitiful pinpricks in the darkness. I hurried down the street.

I heard footsteps and drunken voices. Tears stung my eyes. 

I'd seen it on TV before, on Sherlock Holmes. It couldn't be this hard. It had looked graceful, even.

I jumped.

  Maybe not for children then. And definitely not for the Sherlock fandom...

  Benedict Cumber-splat.

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Take a word. Say it a few times. Enjoy how it sounds, what it makes you think of.

Delicately

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The crisp packet shuffled towards the newsagents, his face creased with a deep frown. He turned, saw the plastic bottle, and flew off down the street, flattening himself against a lamp-post.

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A ship driving through the waves is like a fork dragging across a cake; as the crumbs fly outwards, so do the fragments of sea hurl themselves to left and right.

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Then...

He ran; a blur in the still night, a mere shadow in the gloom, down the hill to his Grandmother.

She smiled.

He flew like a bullet into her open arms; and they were no longer frail, but warm and strong. He stopped, and turned, taking one last look back.

"Welcome," she whispered.

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Simple sentence: a sentence with only one verb.

He ran.

He ran down the hill.

He ran quickly down the hill.

He ran; a blur in the still night, a mere shadow in the gloom, down the hill to his Grandmother.

She smiled.