I walked down the long hall with doors on either side. I wasn’t sure where I was, and the repetition of those doorways made me dizzy. The doors had numbers on them. My palm was bleeding for some reason.
You may remember being asked to rewrite this sentence to make it more vivid and interesting: The leaf was red. Now your challenge is to rewrite another blah sentence. This time, you are not limited to one sentence. Anything goes. (I am still reading variations on Martha and John at the bus stop, so I know the possibilities are endless.) I’m curious how far you can go
A day of meditation had not calmed his feelings, nor provided an answer to the questions he’d carried with him since he’d had his vision in the mountains.
I hooked my _______ on a ______. Then suddenly the whole ______ became ______, and I couldn’t help wishing I was ______. Those damn ______s. I could have gone through a whole ______ without them _______. Of course, I should have expected that _________. I pulled out my _______ and ________ before things could get _________. Thank goodness for __________! ( _______ ______ ______ ______ )
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