One Word / One Minute: Below

The groaning floorboards sweated in the oppressive heat. Marie stood, her gun shouldered and pointed at the floor. All around her the jungle produced so many chirps and squawks that the noise rolled in something like a heavy fog. The tiger snorted below the floor of the hut. She clicked back the action on the rifle, and exhaled.

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One Word/One Minute : Dozen

She put the dozen muffins into the oven and shut the heavy metal door. Steam fogged the bakery windows, and the outside sky had turned the purple shade that foretold dawn in an hour or so. A few drunken stragglers from a wild Friday passed the plate glass, some looking hungrily inside. They didn't see her.

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One Word/One Minute: Sneaky

The bouncer crossed his arms across his chest, his gold watch level to Jackie’s eyes. 
“There’s no way I’m letting you in, the club is full and you’re not on the list after all.” 
He was about to get mad when Judy pulled her away from the bouncer. 
“Don’t you want to at least TRY to see them play?” Jackie wined. Judy just ran a small hand through her short hair.
“When the going gets tough, the punks get sneaky.” she said, and she pointed to the fire escape.

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One Word/One Minute: Anywhere

The wooden porch slats dug into her bare legs, the very same ones her grandfather had laid down when they first built the farmhouse. It was big sky country and the view seemed to extend into forever and ever still; yet in her heart Mary just wanted to be somewhere else, anywhere but here. oneword.com

One Word/One Minute: Dim

The bare bulb hung from the cord in the center of the room giving off a dim light and buzzing gently. How many hours had he been in this windowless tomb? What had he done to deserve imprisonment. There was a knocking at his door and the sound of a metal latch sliding, grinding against it's socket. Long enough for a beard he thought, long enough for that latch to rust.


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One Word/One Minute: Horses

The thundering of their hooves echoed over the valley. The wide swaths of grass crushed beneath their feet were the source of fascination for Will all his young life. Roads to nowhere, on and on into the horizon. ------------ OneWord.com

One Word/One Minute: Laughter

The sound of the laughter echoed though the hallways. The house's architecture was entombed in her mind. The dark green damask wallpaper extending, yearning forward for what seemed like ever, & the oil lamps giving off their orange light. It was the only place she’d ever been happy and she knew that, and lamented it, especially here; at the end of her life. ________________ OneWord.com

One Word/One Minute: solitaire

When she opened the door, a musty smell wafted over her. Stacks of yellowing newspapers were everywhere. Nobody had been inside for years, a hoarders paradise. In the corner a man lay slumped over a card table. The game solitaire spread out before him.
“How fitting.” Julie thought before tripping over a box of glass figurines.

One Word/One Minute: Hearts

She picked up the cards that the dealer gave her. A swath of red spread out on her hand. All hearts. If she was her grandmother she would have taken it as a sign, but she was only herself, and a gambler, so she put down a card and motioned for the dealer to hit her again.

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One Word/One Minute: Left

The only sound that Mike could hear was his own heart beating in his chest. The thudding of his feet on the pavement, only a few feet away, was not close enough to be in the singular world of his head. How many miles left? When did I start running? There were perks to having retrograde amnesia as a marathon runner.



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One Word: Relate

It took her a long time to get to a point where she could relate to the other animals in the woods. To be honest her father hadn’t been very encouraging. “They’re just different from us, too many legs or not enough! What would you even have to say to them?” Jerry changed that. ________ www.oneword.com

One Word/One Minute : Still

Her hair hung around her shoulders, dripping wet. The tub drained its water down in a tornado. She stood still by the door waiting to hear the noise. The drain sucked the last of the water sloppily down the pipes. The scratching echoed from the window again.

One Word : Obsession

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you have 60 seconds to write about a word that is chosen by the website above

One Word Project: obsession

The doctor called it obsession but he never agreed.
“I’m just a passionate person. Like Da Vinci, or Michael Jordan.”
Granted sometimes his passion made him do unusual things, like what happened to the cat.

One Word Project: epiphany

you have sixty seconds to write about it
click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place.

simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following screen.

don’t think. just write.
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TODAY'S WORD: epiphany 

The idea came to her suddenly.
“If I re-route the pipeline back into the coolant sector, we can reduce the heat of the barium crystals and save the ship!”
The android whirred with the calculations,
“Where do ideas come from in humans? Organic spontaneity is hard to compute.”