An Entry Most Unoriginal
“Vengeance! Plague! Death! Confusion! I fear I have been struck down with the second, with the third in pending. The fourth abounds; who can I pin vengeance…
Remixing... King Lear
In this challenge, you are to use in a single story at least 5 of the following 10 lines, which I have selected more or less at random and on whim, from William Shakespeare’s _King Lear_. 1. What paper were you reading? 2. You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter? 3. Look, sir, I bleed. 4. Vengeance! plague! death! confusion! 5. True, my good boy. 6. First let me talk with this philosopher. 7. Made she no verbal question? 8. Away, and let me die. 9. Sir, you speak nobly. 10. My sickness grows upon me. The lines must be integral to the story and not incidental. No other restrictions.
Challengers
6 entriesThe New Generation
Sipping a steaming cup of espresso and stretching his legs out under the table, the elderly man unfolds his morning newspaper with a snap. But after a few…
Chrysanthe -- Act V, Scene 4 (Wm. Shakespeare)
Chrysanthe’s house [HYAKINTHOS reclines, reading. Enter KLEITOS.] KLE: You, you, sirrah, where’s my daughter? HYA: Within her chambers rests my wife…
Dramatic As She Is
The two children, a boy and a girl in the throes of adolescence, sat on the green grass and let their bare toes dangle into the gurgling creek. She smiled, “My…
One by One the Voices fall Silent
I must escape this place before it is too late. My sickness grows upon me. I know not how much longer I can perservere. Some of the voices have fallen silent…