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Group 3

Word Assignment:  cure

TOP 5 STORIES / WRITERS

The writers below advance to the finals kicking off at 7PM EST on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

“I can’t do this,” she said, but he held her down. All she could hear was his panting, her screaming, and The Cure playing on the car radio. CREATED BY Anna Mavromati [3]

Always the devoted wife, I toiled with dinner. Adding the poison to his cup, I hummed to myself & smiled, knowing there's no cure for death. CREATED BY Lisa Jones [3] *AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER

"The quickest cure for a broken heart," said the doctor as the knife began to draw blood from the skin stretched over my ribs. CREATED BY Tina West [3]

The alien wields a glowing rod and approaches the president. Three shots ring out and the creature falls. The cure leaks onto the tarmac. CREATED BY Robin Dennis [3]

TOP 25 STORIES:

Online voting will begin at 11:59PM EST tonight!

“I can’t do this,” she said, but he held her down. All she could hear was his panting, her screaming, and The Cure playing on the car radio. CREATED BY Anna Mavromati [3]

She canned jam, he brewed beer: homemade in a tiny Boston apartment. Soon they would cure meat, freeze yogurt. But would they make babies? CREATED BY Emma Morgenstern [3]

His five-year old eyes stare at me, “Daddy what’s a cure?”. I imagine him as a man. Strong, virile, something I will never see. CREATED BY Justin Kulik [3]

Always the devoted wife, I toiled with dinner. Adding the poison to his cup, I hummed to myself & smiled, knowing there's no cure for death. CREATED BY Lisa Jones [3]

“This is a good cure for a bad day” Mark thought as he continued urinating off the balcony. CREATED BY Noell Wolfgram Evans [3]

“There is no cure for stupidity,” she yelled at her husband. He slapped down the spoon, indignant. The gazpacho boiled over on the stove. CREATED BY Robin Dennis [3]

I asked the doctor to cure my broken heart. He gave me a knife, a blank piece of paper and a pen. I laughed. He didn't. I'm considering. CREATED BY Tina West [3]

She said “I love you” but it didn’t sound real. He flicked a switch and she slumped mechanically. No creation could cure his loneliness. CREATED BY Anna Mavromati [3]

For 10 years your smile was my cure. Too bad you never noticed that I was sick. CREATED BY Shannon Carney [3]
The cure was out of reach, torn from him by the poachers. It wasn't the illness that would kill his child, but the greed in men's hearts. CREATED BY Heather Davis [3]

The music of The Cure had inspired him, and holding the 3 year old Gibson, he felt the heat from the lights and smiled up at the crowd. CREATED BY Lisa Jones [3]

"Will loving you cure this awful ache in my heart?" The one asking has a hypothetical gun to your head, so yes. The answer is yes. CREATED BY Tonya Moore [3]

“Damn you Ziggy, the cure for sadness is not a plate of grandma’s cookies” Sara thought as she threw up again. CREATED BY Noell Wolfgram Evans [3]

“Cure is found.” broke through the silence. I peeked out. Saw a man. Do I dare to go out? Yes! Immediately, I realized my mistake. CREATED BY Penny Brown [3]

Great slabs of pork cure in the smokehouse. Wisps of smoke float across the town to the rabbi’s home. He sniffs appreciatively, and sighs. CREATED BY Robin Dennis [3]

"The quickest cure for a broken heart," said the doctor as the knife began to draw blood from the skin stretched over my ribs. CREATED BY Tina West [3]

He held his bite wound as she stuck the needle into his skin. It wasn’t until he bit off her ear that she realized she didn’t have the cure. CREATED BY Anna Mavromati [3]

Flashback to when we thought you'd found the cure. To a time when forever was so faraway... Now all I can feel is you slipping away CREATED BY Shannon Carney [3]

She could have cried when he broke up with her, she was still tempted to, but then she realized it wasn't anything ice cream couldn't cure. CREATED BY Heather Davis [3]

Do we pay for a cure? Or help the poor? Is it my job to care for others? And not just my brothers? What would your God do? CREATED BY Penny Brown [3]

The alien wields a glowing rod and approaches the president. Three shots ring out and the creature falls. The cure leaks onto the tarmac. CREATED BY Robin Dennis [3]

"I'm lost without you. There isn't a cure for my heart aside from you." Tears flooded his eyes & he pressed his face to the cold casket. CREATED BY Marian Tuin [3]
 

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