‘This weekend we are playing another type of word game with you. Below are photos from the 33rd page of one of our very favorite books, Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge. What we want you to do is to scour the page (click to enlarge), choose 33 words, and reshape those words into a piece of your own. Your piece does not have to tell an entire story. We just want to see what you can do with this particular word bank. Punctuation is up to you. Use whatever you need, whether or not it appears in the photos.’
Kevin discovered the child hanging in the kitchen, wrapped in a pink blanket.
Was it the woman who had hung her there?
He touched her and felt, with relief, comforting signs of life.
© February 2013 Colonialist (WordPress)
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I was about to freak. Thanks for the save!
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Unfreak! Unfreak! All is well! 🙂
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Nice short tale with a happy ending, Col. 🙂
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That is one thing these tales certainly are – short! Not as short as the six-word ones, of course.
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Amazing!!
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Pleased you thought that!
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A nice scene built around those 33 words of yours. Well written. Could have been grisly but, is not. Thanks for that ending. Phew! 🙂
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Glad you approve of the reassurance at the end – it seems most people wanted doom and gloom in this piece.
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Much more positive than mine. 🙂
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Maybe with reduced impact as a result?
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Indeed, a very good point!
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Wow, Col!
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Glad it has wow factor!
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Wow! You wrote an even flowing story with the limited words. Nice one.
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Thanks! Done this way, though, it does leave it looking a bit sparse.
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Oh, wow! I held my breath until the end. Well done!
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Fortunately, that would have been a very short cessation of breathing! 🙂
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a happy “ending” within a dark piece. 🙂 Well done.
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I must confess that I really battled to turn it around using available words!
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This is great! And a happy ending too (:
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Thanks! As I remarked below, turning it around really did give me a challenge.
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Wow Col!!
such suspense with so few words – you are a master!
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Glad you found her suspension suspenseful!
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ouch! Thang God for signs of life!
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Indicating the difference between hanging and hanged! 🙂
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Wow. That’s pretty amazing. Great job.
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