Each month during the Atlanta Writers Club meeting, they offer a writing challenge to the participants. The rules are that the entry must include the one word prompt and has to be fifty words or under. The prompt yesterday was “Paris.”
Here is my entry:
Dad, I’m sorry. I screwed up. Again. Mom knew that girl wasn’t right for me, but her face …
Besides, the media exaggerated. No way it was a thousand ships. Maybe four hundred.
Anyway, thanks to the heel thing, they’re gone and left this awesome horse.
We good?
Your son,
Paris
Despite failing to reference the recent Summer Olympics, this was the winning entry. This just goes to show what you can achieve by subverting expectations. And what happens when there aren’t many entries.
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