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Adventures in…Word Play
April 10 shock, spectrum, guide, cheat, swipe, gap, roll, confine, island, improvement It was a bit of a shock how easy it was to get the thieves to roll on their boss. Well, not the boss–we still didn’t have a… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
April 9 visit, feast, canvas, bay, inquiry, tooth, battlefield, embryo, attic, if I hate arguing with anyone–especially Jasmine–but here we were, making a battlefield of the short walk past the bay. In the brief silences between outbursts, we could hear… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
mirror, failure, stream, punch, resign, cooperate, convince, reproduction, coup, behavior April 8 As portals go, this one was impressive–swirling blue with a stream of pale gray flowing from the center like a conveyor belt. The thieves had formed a bucket… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
April 7 escape, banish, recognize, response, pitch, reception, draft, interference, vegetation, stable We scrambled up the incline on our hands and knees, clutching fistfuls of the sparse vegetation and moving parallel to the paved road. In the pitch dark before… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
Thanks to everyone who is following along. It’s my hope that some pieces of this may be crafted into a real story eventually. April 6 persist, occupation, right, picture, peanut, praise, illness, bar, lonely, fail By now you may have… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
The words are driving the story like a 3 year-old driving an 18 wheeler. April 5 wear, gradient, address, classify, garage, sermon, memorandum, behave, voyage, transparent We were in it up to our necks. Couldn’t open the Cupoard to investigate,… Continue reading
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Adventures in …Word Play
April 4 coincidence, beef, scheme, mention, wire, tactic, season, problem, excitement, passion A glare and the shouted curse–that was the extent of Jasmine’s excitement. Seconds later she was her cool self. I could almost see the wheels turn as she… Continue reading
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Adventures in …Word Play
April 3 I’m switching to 1st person just to see how it feels. copper, look, death, cash, compliance, island, van, transfer, wake, citizen I’m much better at sticking to rules than most of my associates. Being anything other than a… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
April 2 effort, appetite, mercy, censorship, ground, relative, volume, restoration, element, cupboard First Light, where all the single race magicals lived, loved and connived, was separated from Half Light, which was populated by humankind. Most humans never knew of the… Continue reading
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Adventures in…Word Play
Spurred on by Donna B. McNicol, I elected to try this method of playing with words for the month of April: each day, I’ll use 10 randomly generated words in 10 sentences. The umbrella is the protagonist, one Rowena Hawthorne,… Continue reading
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