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Challenge of the Week
Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.

Can’t ChatGPT Do It?

I smile wryly.

“My writing? Short form. Six words to about two hundred. Mostly. Sometimes more.”

He grins, flush with disbelief. I’m dazzled by the green eyes.

”For serious?”

I arch an eyebrow, pull a corner of my mouth up, and half-shrug. Maybe too many tattoos?

“Sometimes.”

“Doesn’t seem that hard. Can‘t ChatGPT do it?”

His once intoxicating cologne now cloys at my throat.

“Got honorable mention in a online contest. A human won,“ I respond, hoping to conceal my jealousy. “I like my stories to provoke thought and creativity. I ask about control and self-determination. I ponder a future where humanity is gone, replaced by self-aware androids.”

”In six words.” That he used the incredulous indicative instead of an innocent interrogative burns my ass raw. I notice wrinkles as he smirks.

“Yes.”

“Are you being like this because you wanna show me you write like you talk?”

“No.”

“Can you do it?”

“Can I do what?”

“Can you come up with a six word story. Now. About our date.”

I twist up my smile, summoning my meanest muse. Well, he wants proof.

“Less is more. Doubt? Disinterest? Done.”

I stand, push my chair in, and leave without looking at him.

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