The email from nycmidnight.com arrived shortly after 4P.M. I had to write three more Tweet Stories using the word tear.
The coolest thing about this word is that it has two main meanings: 1. the salty stuff that comes out of your eyeballs when you are crying and 2. a rip or to rip something.
The contest gave me five hours to submit - but as any busy woman knows, it's got to happen faster than that. I planned to run on the treadmill, shower at the gym (John shut the main valve of our water main off last night due to a huge sprinkler leak/crack we discovered last night just before going to bed - FUN!), write the stories, eat dinner and meet Jill at the movies to see Star Trek - all in less than three hours. I was a bit rushed but here's what I came up with:
1. Jon: Here’s your eggplant! Tear right in! I gotta run back to the grill for my juicy, medium-rare sirloin! Me: Rethinking this vegan thing.
2. small dark tear in her pale wedding dress/not an omen for success/a million private tears, already cried/no one should be a mail-order bride
3. tiny flies float/over fruit in a bowl/the sun edges/through a tear in the dirty screen/and the flies are the thoughts/of the three wilted pears
Again, remember, the stories must use the word exactly and must be less than 140 characters including spaces. So, whats the word? I will keep ya'all posted! Oh, and by the way, the Star Trek movie rocked. Go see it.
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