Trifecta: the challenge: ”below are photos from the 33rd page of one of our very favorite books, Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge. What we want you to do is to scour the page (click to enlarge), choose 33 words, and reshape those words into a piece of your own. Your piece does not have to tell an entire story. We just want to see what you can do with this particular word bank. Punctuation is up to you.”
Trifecta Challenge 
Very interesting and a difficult one , however I gave it a go. Below is my submission…it’s a bit scattered I’m afraid, open for critique or a laugh if you can’t follow the gist.
Ramblings From A Mum 
*shudder* very dark.. well done..
Thanks kz, an extremely challenging prompt for this week wasn’t it?! A bit of studying and rearranging…
Very well done! I wouldn’t have pulled such a story from these words. 🙂
FKC I thank you, though a little dis-jointed (no pun intended) it was a tricky one to get my head around 🙂
yikes – well done
Thank you Sam…hmmm love the dark side of me 🙂
I felt a chill. o__o This is really good! The scattered feeling fits it well.
Thanks Draug, a bit different… I wanted the reader to feel scattered, that is the only way I could think of – thank you! 🙂
Whoa… scary, but well done story..
Thanks Steph, I did enjoy writing this – thanks for commenting – appreciate your feed-back.
entrails hanging from the front door . . . . ooooooohhhhhh delicious!
Hi Barbara – thanks for popping over and you delicious comment – yes Hannibal Lecture came to mind 😉
YIKES – Good work!
LOL I thank you chookas… evil evil moi… love it (then again had quite a few good words to utilise) 😉 xx
Yowza! Isn’t it fun to play on the dark side for a little while? Those “entrails” were very well used. You’ve written quite a killer piece here, if you’ll pardon my pun.
Betty – thank you, using the entrails was possibly the greatest word in this piece. I have fun with my dark side, and thank you for coming over reading and commenting – appreciated. 🙂
Great words!
Thanks Bo.
Whoa! This is dark and creepy. Great use of the words.
Hello LD – thank you so much 🙂
Rifles are scary!! This was another pretty deep one! Hugs Paula xxxx
Scarier than entrails? 😉 xx
Although I didn’t go this route in my own piece, I thought all along that the words lent themselves to images of murder or suicide. I like your Hannibal Lector comment earlier. Your story also brings to mind, “Throw Momma from the Train”, too. Lol! Your choice of words and story is bang on! 🙂
Thank you ‘Cobbie’ I am humbled by your comments on my offering. 🙂
*shrieks*
Had a flash of Norman Bates at the ‘never mind, mother’ line.
and the entrails. Brrrr.
Ah yes that is familiar isn’t it 😉 Glad it gave a little ‘chill’ Kymmin – thanks for leaving a comment 🙂
Fantastic. I love this sparsity of the words telling us so much.
I thank you Sarah for coming over and having a read & your lovely comment. Appreciated 🙂