For THREE more weeks, the challenge you love is back.
It starts with a prompt every Sunday. The responses need only be short and sweet. Or short and scary. Or, short and funny. The point is, the challenge will always require short replies on purpose . . . so YOU have no excuses.
Last week we received a RECORD number of submissions, with almost forty entries to the challenge. Keep those replies coming! You are what makes the Sunday Scribble Challenge so much fun.
*PLEASE NOTE: The primary focus of the #SSC is to help authors forge connections within the writing community. So, if you decide to respond to this week’s prompt, just remember to comment (reply) to at least three other entries before voting opens on Saturday, June 10th.
The prize?
All challenge winners are invited to write a GUEST POST on Scribbles on Cocktail Napkins with LINKS to their own work.
Guest blogs are a FANTASTIC way for writers and bloggers to reach a previously untapped audience.
Not sure how to tackle YOUR guest post? Stay tuned to DanAlatorre.com this Friday, where I’ll be posting an article about the Whys and Hows of . . . you guessed it. Guest blogging.
Speaking of WINNERS, it’s time to announce the winner of the 11th Sunday Scribble Challenge, all about PHOBIAS. Congratulations, Allie Potts! The votes have been tallied and you WON with this great entry:An email has been sent with your guest blog invitation. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
And Now for this week’s CHALLENGE:
Someone has buried your character alive. After a few hours, the victim hears what sounds like digging in the dirt. Soon, he or she realizes the sound is coming from BENEATH them.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write the next line of dialogue, whether it comes from the victim or their guest.
RULES OF THE CHALLENGE:
- Participants have until Saturday, June 10th at noon, Eastern standard time to post ONE response to the prompt in the comment section of THIS POST.
- ENCOURAGE other scribblers. Try to comment (reply) to at least three other submissions during the week.
- After the Saturday deadline, players have a week to VOTE for their favorite submission by emailing: Sundayscribblechallenge@gmail.com. Place the lucky author’s name in the HEADER of your email.
She pushes her hand through the dirt and then her head pops up as she says to the stunned group staring at her, “Looks like we have company!”
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I wonder how many people have been buried alive here, and why…
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“Could get mighty crowded down there.”
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😀
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I wonder how many people have been buried alive here, and why…
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Argh, sorry, ignore this…this was meant to be a reply to the previous poster – it’s NOT my entry.
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“Wake up, dollface,” he grunted. “Revenge won’t exact itself.”
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The above is my actual entry.
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Ah! I love it.
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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haha nice 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I love your use of ‘dollface’. Who was that grunter, Isabel? Juliet
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Thanks Juliet 🙂 He’s the digger, another victim…and possibly one of the undead…
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A frail, half rotted mortal plows the soil with his hands and exclaims, ” Fancy a massage, love?”
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I like this. Definitely made me laugh.
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Thank you. XD
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Night of the living dead Masseuse haha
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Hahaha XD
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A frail, half rotted mortal plows though the damp soil and exclaims, “Doom service, how can I help you? “
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A strange mole like creature pushes into his back, it digs around to meet his face and says:
“Do you mind? You’re blocking the road!”
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I think this is my favorite.
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Thank you 🙂
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Hehe, this one made me smile.
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Mumbling to himself, as no one heard him, lying in his own space, “All I wanted was to rest in peace!”
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J—Hee hee! Good one! DWD
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😊💛
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I don’t know why I can’t see my comment,even though I’ve posted 2 of ’em. Can you please help me?
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The first comment on this site has to be approved by a moderator. You’re all good now!
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Hey, thanks. 🙂 If, according to the rules, you want to delete one of my comments, would you please delete the 1st one?
Thanks. ❤
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Consciousness had been turned around as my drinking had exceeded my weight; all night and still no bathroom. “Well, you wont find it face down in there!” cried the butler.
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MC—Speaking from experience, that was a little closer to the truth than I would like to admit! Hee hee! DWD
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Lawdy lawd. That can’t be good 😉
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MC—It was, until it wasn’t! DWD
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Such. Is. Life.
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the ghost of Ben Hogan, defending champion for the 36th year in a row, of the Underwhirled Links Classic, announces: “Mind if I play through?”
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Love that. There’s some really funny replies for this prompt.
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B—You know us die-hard golfers…nothing stands in the way! DWD
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A muffled voice is heard shouting, “We can start heading up now, I think we’re clear of the guard tower.”
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I wonder where they’re escaping. Hell maybe.
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LMW—Having just read the biography of Ted Bundy (he escaped twice!), I do believe they are escaping their Hell and entering ours! Yikes! DWD
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Haha, breakout. 🙂
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Great, DWD. I’d like to know more… Juliet
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“Keeping digging. I think I can smell fresh meat.”
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😷ewwww.
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I know! ;D
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I can only read this in an orc voice.
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Good one! A fate worse than death…
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Creeepeeee!
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LMW—Creepy! I love it! DWD
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‘Oops, sorry to disturb your nap madam. Jim MacGregor from the Scottish Speleological Society – could you just point me in the direction of the exit please?’
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LOL. I love this!
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Thanks Allison!
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OH, that’s fantastic.
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“Hey Jimmy!” grunted the tired and dirty inmate. “Why don’t you pass me the shank? I think we’re finally past the wall.”
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I was on the 101st floor when the building came down, I don’t know how I’m even alive but I know I know I am when I hear rubble move below me. “I feel like the Wicked Witch of the West!” I told the First Responder…
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“Oh, honestly! Is there nowhere I can get away from you?”
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I like it! Made me wonder who’s talking to who. Juliet
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I believe it’s the one buried speaking to the one digging up to chat. 😉
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Yeah. I was just wondering what their relationship might have been… but I’m very curious!
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He he, nice 😀
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Thanks. 🙂
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SB—There is a lot of information in those 11 words! DWD
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So much can be accomplished in few words. 😉 Thanks!
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“Don’t give up! Keep digging! Just a few thousand miles to reach China!”
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Nice one!
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Oops I wrote mine before I read this! LOL
Great minds. 😉
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Not exactly the same. 🙂
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“Dangit, Jimmy! I told you this wouldn’t get us to China!”
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