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:iconscreamprompts:'s March Prompt:

    1. Use the following phrase in the piece: "My spouse doesn't know." But don't use the word "spouse", use either the word "husband" or "wife" as your gender/proclivities dictate. This also means we'll be writing in first person.

    2. This phrase must be used by the time you hit one hundred words.

    3. Finish the story with 1000 words. Yes. Not 999 and not 1001 and certainly nothing below or beyond. It must be precisely 1000 words. I'm trusting you all here to be honest. This must also be a complete story with a beginning, middle and ending, not a slice of life/day in the life piece.

    4. Whatever happens to the husband or wife, either the one who said the phrase or the spouse, IT CAN NOT BE BAD NEWS that will hurt the spouse in any kind of way. However, if you go the bad news route, the bad news must be resolved by the end of the story.


I've been trying to write for this prompt lately. I'm still not sure I managed to make an actual short story with a beginning, middle, and end, not just another day in the life of piece, but alas...I like this one.

It's hard, making an actual story in only 1000 words...

Word count: 1000.

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Question:

Is there a beginning, middle, and end here?

March 2011
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:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star-empty::star-empty::star-empty: Impact

If you have to ask if there's a beginning, middle and end, you already know the answer.

This does read like a day-in-the-life piece, isn't "bad" and if you're happy with it, that's all that matters. But if you want it to be more of a "legit" story, then there are other questions to be asking: what is the plot, what is the conflict, what is the motivation, what is the resolution. I get there is an attempt to use the daughters in some way -- say if mom and dad came down for breakfast the next morning and mom or dad had a black eye or weird scratch due to their night time festivities but the girls asked if they "got hurt and needed stitches", only to have mom and dad talk themselves into more hypocrisy ("sometimes some scratches don't need stitches"). perhaps a proper ending, if the daughters are indeed old enough to now know better, to have mom and dad sit them down and have a facts-of-life talk. that way the girls learn the truth about things and they can absolve each other of the white lies they've been telling all along.

just thoughts of mine feel free to use or ignore. the story itself is heartwarming and cute and very real. parents want to protect their kids but how much is too much? it raises good questions that are highly relatable in this day and age.