This week's challenger, Lost Soul, has asked that I post this week's challenge for him. Lost Soul is challenging the two word pair: Silver Sleigh.
How Does the Two Word Challenge Work?
Each week the “Challenger” issues a pair of words to the group. Each person who wants to participate in the challenge will post their response to the group - either as a poem, short story, essay, article or artwork.The goal is to use the two word pair(s) in your work, giving your own interpretation of the words creatively. It can be a literal interpretation - "the cellar door was large and made of rough wood" or it can be figurative – “he was a cellar door, protecting them from the storm that was their life." You can even modify the words slightly if needed - for example the name "Celardor" or "the cellar's door" (note - cellar door is not the current two word pair).
Just make sure you have the two word pair you are using in either your title or as a tag so the entry will be accepted into the group. The purpose for this rule is to keep group content on topic. We receive a lot of submissions each week and need to be able to quickly determine which are on topic for the group. If your entry is declined but you have responded to an official Two Word Challenge, simply correct your entry so that the two words appear in your title or tags and resubmit to the group.
“Challengers” may add additional features to their challenge that make it unique, but as long as you complete the basic Two Word Challenge portion, your entry will be accepted in the group. There are no time limits on the challenges so you can respond to any of them at any time. We will try to have a new one issued weekly.
All Two Word Challenges need to be kept PG to permit everyone to participate. Interpretations of the Two Words not PG are fine, as long as you flag your article appropriately. If anyone feels a group submission is inappropriate, feel free to contact the group owner or moderator (see below).
If you have a suggestion for a future Two Word Challenge, send a private message to Monica Kennedy – Group Owner (daydreambeliever) and CC Kathryn Esplin-Oleski – Group Moderator (kathryneo) with the details of your idea(s).
For those new to Two Word Challenge please also see Two Word Challenges Past to Present for history and complete rules for participating in the challenge, as well as a list of all past challenges.
Monica Kennedy
Group Owner
Please remember that ONLY submissions pertaining to the Two Word Challenge (current or past challenges) will be accepted to the Two Word Challenge group. Off topic submissions will be declined.
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I can close my eyes for the will find the way
I was editing a time travel, and a young woman had gone back in time from modern-day Spain to early Russia. As she was being pulled by a team of horses in a sleigh, the horses passed over a pot hole with ease, but not so with the sleigh. As the young woman bounced off the seat onto the floor of the sleigh, she was heard to exclaim, "Ay, mierda!"
Now I have spoken Spanish for many years, but my life in Venezuela was as a missionary. That word, "mierda," was not in my vocabulary. So, I went to the online translator, babelfish. As I typed in the word "mierda," I nearly fell off my chair laughing. You see, it translated it "excrement!" Now I am quite sure that that poor young woman, so embarrassed and upset as she sat on the floor of the sleigh with her long dress flying up over her head did NOT exclaim, "Oh, excrement!!!!!"
Kathryn and Chris - I bet you two can be creative with this one.
Mandi - I thought the SAME THING as I was typing this. If Lost Soul is not offended at the idea, I'll schedule it for the next calendar. Great minds think alike, Mandi!
David - think of it as a goodbye to winter theme! I am so ready for summer!
DragonSoul - sometimes I envy having snow to play in, but right about now I am so enjoying Spring appearing here and warmer weather starting, I am glad to not have 1 1/2 feet of snow! I bet it is gorgeous though. THe Crepe Myrtles are starting to bloom here.
Elizabeth - I know, I have seen that mch snow before too - and flipped my Blazer on black ice trying to get to work. It rolled three times before landing driver's side in the air, passenger's on the ground, and the roof against a telephone pole. I was off for about a month from work because of the injuries. NOT FUN. Perhaps I should have taken a silver sleigh to work that day, eh? LOL
Now say that three times fast!