Great new writing challenge from www.CreativeCopyChallenge.com. Use the 10 words they give you to write a short story ... here's my first attempt.Required words are in bold. Enjoy!
The first bedroom had an ethereal quality about it. Wispy, gauzy curtains fluttered in the summer breeze and everywhere you looked you saw a unicorn. On coffee mugs, as stuffed animals, appliquéd on the bedspread and on the headboard which teetered between grotesque and ornate.
“Let me show you the rest of the house,” Sam the androgynous real estate agent said. Was Sam a first name or short for Samantha? Who could tell? He/she had a morose quality about him/her that gave me the willies.
Wily, my rambunctious Chihuahua, must have had the same unsettling instinct. He suddenly leapt out of my arms and ran to the front door. “What the hell is wrong with you?” I called after him as I followed him into the foyer.
He barked twice at me. “Are you sure?” I asked him.
“Woof.”
“I’m sorry Sam, the one loophole I failed to mention is that if Wily doesn’t like it, it’s a deal breaker.”
“What a namby-pamby excuse,” he/she said. Get out.”
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