“Please,” he said.
Grinding her teeth, she growled, “This time only and then no more. This time only.”
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This weekend, Trifextra is asking us to finish the story launched by the words “The phone rang at 4am”. Not counting those four, we have 33 words to tell the whole tale.
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Those crafty Trifecta editors are at it again, asking us for a retold story in 33 words. Here’s mine. NB: “w/” is one word unconnected with “expertise”. There’s a space.
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“Well, that’s a first.” Caren added the last of the bound carpet strips to the furniture piled at the curb.
Todd grunted an answer, but she couldn’t hear him, because he was hunkered behind the sofa, while she stood in front of the recliners. They still needed to flip those up onto the couch in order to fit the whole mountain on the narrow grass stripe between sidewalk and street. These tenants left so much that hauling it and the carpet out took them well into the night.
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This weekend, those crazy crazy editors at Trifecta want us to write a story in three sentences. Those are mine. Up there.
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This weekend, Trifextra launched a new feature and challenged us to write a love story in 33 words. I decided to manipulate historical images of telegrams and train tickets to give my words some context. I’ll be interested to see if this makes sense or if this one really needed more than 33 words.
Take Two: Without the train tickets to leave more room for words on the telegrams.
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