Challenge
Challenge of the Month IX: September
The Tables, Turned. You (or your character) awaken to find your gender has been reversed. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
I Go There
I was not happy. I was written all wrong.
मैं वहां जाता हूँ। is a basic sentence, but my author - I won't embarrass him by name - took no care of verb declension.
(What am I? A pronoun?)
Ironically (of course) I have no voice.
So I was pleasantly surprised when,
after I was circled in red pen,
my author awakened,
made the necessary correction
(जाती)
and, on Top of it
all,
italicized
the feminine ....
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