Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!
I’m pleased to announce the winner for the FIRST Scribbles on Cocktail Napkins Sunday Scribble Challenge is . . . JL Phillips, poet, author, and blogger of: To Breathe is to Write.
The prompt for that week?
Your character is examining their reflection. Something’s changed. Describe the change and your character’s reaction in just three sentences. Use whatever methods you can to draw your reader in.
Jackie’s winning submission:
Her breath stopped for a second as she gazed at her reflection in the dusty mirror. The ancient antique dealer had smiled, then winked when she purchased the mirror earlier in the day. She didn’t care what he thought as she gazed at her now smooth glowing skin and grey-free hair and enjoyed her youth once more.
Thank you for participating in the challenge, Jackie! I’d like to invite you and/or your work to be featured in an upcoming post on Scribbles on Cocktail Napkins. This can be done in whatever way you like. A reblog, a guest blog, a new interview about a favorite project, or even a small sample of your latest book along with a purchasing link. You decide!
Now, without any further ado, let’s get to our next Scribble Challenge!! Here’s the new prompt:
The Rules: You have six days to ruminate if you need them. Post one submission to the prompt in the comment section below. The deadline? Saturday, April 16th @noon Atlantic Daylight Time.
- Encourage other Scribblers. Try to comment (reply) to at least three other submissions during the week.
- After the deadline, VOTE for your favorite submission by emailing: Sundayscribblechallenge@gmail.com. Place the lucky author’s name in the HEADER of your email.
*Remember:
Voting polls for this challenge OPEN immediately after the prompt deadline on April 16th, and CLOSE one week later, on April 23rd. That means the winner of THIS challenge won’t be announced until Sunday, April 24th, when the fifth challenge prompt is posted.
VOTE FOR LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE!! EMAIL YOUR VOTES TO Sundayscribblechallenge@gmail.com.
Trolls will be escorted back to their bridge with a flaming stick of dynamite.
Thanks again for letting me know I won the first round. I missed the second, I’m sorry to say. Too much going on in life sometimes. I’ll see what I can do for this one. 🙂 Good luck, everyone!
I’ll think about what I want done via the prize and let you know. 🙂 Thanks again! So nice of you J.A to hold these challenges.
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Congratulations Jackie.
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Thank you, Ellen!
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Congratulations Jackie…yours was the stand out entry for me
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Thank you so much.
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Congratulations indeed! And I’m still waiting for the longer version.
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Thanks! I’m still thinking about doing a longer version. 😉
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You had my vote! Congrats Jackie!
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Thank you!
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Congrats Jackie.
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Thank you Ahdad.
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When the detective asked where Jack was, she twisted her hands together, wiped her face with her palm and swallowed.” He left officer” she said in a squeaky voice, “Just went he did I haven’t seen him since”, dropping her head she continued feeding the pig.
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Ahhhhhhhh!
I’m picking up what you are throwing down and it’s KILLER. Nicely done!
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Another great post! I like the looking down at the pig part to hide the fact that she’s downright lying!
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Or feeding him to the pig…
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I caught that bit!! Devious ole gal.
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Sick and twisted…I likey a lot!!
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Done! Good luck all.
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“Sam, that doctor, she’s… I, I don’t need… I mean, um, you know, downstairs – there’s nothing wrong in that department!”
“I completely believe you.”
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Hahaha… I’ve seen this somewhere before!! Great idea, tossing in a snippet of Poggibonsi. This story STILL makes me laugh.
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One sentence to show he’s lying. The other one just for fun.
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I’m with Jenny…you don’t forget lines like this!
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You guys are too kind.
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His subdued smile, appropriate to the situation, communicated his desire to be liked. Mentally rehearsing his eulogy, he slid one hand down the front of his tie as he stepped to pulpit.
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This could be read so many different ways. Of course, I’m wondering if the man was responsible for the deceased’s death.
This is subtly . . . quite sinister.
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laughing, it’s from my recent police procedural.
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Tah dah boom! A done deal sir!
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Very creepy. Religious creepy is somehow even worse than the regular kind.
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I agree whole heartedly!
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A murderous eulogy..you guys and gals are fantastic!
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“Why would anyone kill your wife, Mr. Reynolds?” I asked the grief-stricken man and watched his left eye twitch for a few seconds before he answered me. “I have no idea officer as she was a quiet, unassuming woman.”
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Quiet and unassuming, my eye. That little eye twitch makes me think she was quite a bit more than that.
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Could be …. 😉
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Doubt that last bit! She’s quiet now to be sure. 🙂
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That she is….unless you believe in ghosts. 😉
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Me thinks he be hidin some thin… behind a lie.
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Could be!
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She lifted the glass to her lips after answering the pointed question, taking a dainty sip before replacing it on the table before her. The liquid in the glass rippled from her touch as she stared down her questioner.
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This is so easy to picture. It reads almost like a telling close-up in a movie.
Well done.
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Thank you! 🙂 Sounds like mission accomplished, huzzah.
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This feels like she is in an interrogation room. Very good job in helping us picture the scene.
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Thank you! 🙂
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I love that line about trolls.
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Dangerous buggers, trolls. Dynamite is the only solution, really.
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“Have you ever been married?” he asked, eyes glowing with the tell of attraction.
Eleanor took a sip of her wine, her other hand caressing the metallic weight laying heavy in her pocket, “No, never…you?”
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Tisk, tisk, tisk. Eleanor isn’t nearly as classy as her name lets on.
“…her other hand caressing the metallic weight laying heavy in her pocket…”
–I love that bit!
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Thank you! I thought Hobbit fans might like that bit too 😛
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Great job!
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Subterfuge and dastardly appenins going on ere, me smells a porky pie! ( cockney slang for lie)
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“It wasn’t me”, cried Jimmy, as he stood with hanging shoulders next to the shattered cookie jar on the floor. If only he took the time to wipe his mouth before Mom stormed into the kitchen.
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I like that cookies made an appearance in this one…mmmmm! Great job!
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Hahaha.
You know, some little “Not Me” has a habit of licking the Oreo icing out of the cookies in our house, and leaving the chocolate bits strewn along the counter.
It’s a conspiracy, I’m sure.
Enjoyed this!
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Love a cookie monster, can’t abide a sneeky eater… well done.
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The votes are in, and YOU won the third Sunday Scribble Challenge!
You will be contacted shortly for details about your featured guest post or blog on Scribbles on Cocktail Napkins.
Congratulations 🙂
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Wow! Can’t believe it! Thank you so much!
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I’m gonna participate this week!
He rubbed his neck as if relieving a knot and focused on an imaginary something on the floor. “It was – we were just talking.”
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Hey Allison. Glad you made it over!! 🙂
Interesting body language going on there. It leads me to believe that your speaker was involved in a body language of another kind just before getting busted??
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It is surprising what body language gives away. Good one.
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He stares and wonders. Her on-line presence, as she is or as once was…as if she was the problem?
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Oooh, interesting.
Nicely done, Eric.
It’s always great to see you participating in these challenges. Your entries to the challenges are always real attention grabbers!
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Curiosity grabbed!
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Thank you…I may well be the only one whose avi looks older than is!
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Oh… of course you don’t know I am only ten… 😜
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