I provide the first phrase and you complete the sentence, in your own way and we see in how many different directions one thought can be taken…..
“Her lips cracked……… ”
My attempt
“……. and the beautiful bust crumbled to featureless dust.”
Your turn!
hbhatnagar
Not-so-random thoughts
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Two Phrase Story #21
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About hbhatnagar
I need to fill this up with much better content than I had populated it with earlier. Why I write a blog maybe? I started blogging in 2009 or thereabouts. I was a newly turned atheist and wanted to converse with others of the same persuasion. We're not exactly a big population group in India! It didn't go very well and I sort of lost interest, posting a few things now and then. I got a lot more regular over the last few months and have been posting almost daily since February '15. There were many reasons why I gradually became more regular in posting, but one way or the other, here I am! So this blog has taken shape, being at different points in time my showcase, my comedy club, my art gallery, my book club, my therapist, my close friend, my innermost self....but always my little corner of the world. You are all welcome to visit and I hope you stay awhile! A few points about me because I don't want to lead anyone on(and trust me this does become an issue more often than I'd care to admit). I'm Indian, the brown-skinned variety; if race, ethnicity or skin colour is an issue, you don't have to get to know me any more than what you see on my blog. I'm 40, so if age is an issue, please be informed accordingly. I was a doctor, an ophthalmic surgeon for 10 years before I quit practice.Discussion
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Her lips cracked listening to silent echos of footsteps on the door in the middle of night
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Posted by izza ifzaal | 13/12/2015, 9:47 PMThanks for joining in Izza! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 14/12/2015, 9:35 AMHer lips cracked
and Winters were here!
But this is not what I would write for the post 😀
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Posted by Kritika Vashist | 13/12/2015, 9:14 PMI know you’d have something else in your mind Kritika, but this was good too,and no one else thought of it. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 13/12/2015, 9:20 PMThank you 😊
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Posted by Kritika Vashist | 13/12/2015, 11:32 PMHer lips cracked, and then the tears rolled.
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Posted by inspiramble | 13/12/2015, 10:24 AMPoignant. Thanks for playing, Inspiramble. 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 13/12/2015, 6:27 PM…., fissures no lipstick to could fill.
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 11/12/2015, 2:53 AMHaunting…Thanks for joining in ET! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 11/12/2015, 6:32 AMThanks for the exercise
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Posted by Elusive Trope | 11/12/2015, 7:11 AMHer lips cracked, and for the first time he could see how broken she was…
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Posted by Divya Bhatnagar | 10/12/2015, 9:21 PMA good one, Dr. Hb! 🙂 This one is challenging…
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Posted by Amy | 10/12/2015, 9:16 PMThanks Amy. I’m glad you liked it, it just seemed so fitting for some reason I couldn’t shake it…
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 10/12/2015, 10:02 PM“and the porcelain doll became creepier than ever.”
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Posted by Belinda Crane | 10/12/2015, 10:01 AMBride of Chucky maybe? 😀
Thanks for playing Belinda!
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 10/12/2015, 10:08 AMGreat one! “…as she gasped for water for her parched throat.”
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Posted by Victo Dolore | 10/12/2015, 9:50 AMThank you Victo, and thanks for joining in! 🙂
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Posted by hbhatnagar | 10/12/2015, 9:52 AM