Challenge
CotW #65: Write a story about infidelity. The most eloquent, elegant, entertaining entry, ascertained by Prose, earns $100 and stays atop the Spotlight shelf for six straight days. Feel free to invite friends, distant family, even strange acquaintances to play this challenge with you anonymously. Please use #ProseChallenge #itslit for sharing online.
Prose or Poetry as long as you are telling a story. 250 words minimum, no maximum. Dazzle us with your words!
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The day after
There’s a word for what we did last night.
There are hand-stitched scarlet letters
Scaffolds, stonings, state laws
There’s a word for it and we did it. Laws and we’re guilty. We kissed and he said oh my God, this can’t happen, this can’t be happening, and it did. And we turned off the lights anyways.
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