She’d always wanted to be the perfect lady, all glossy hair and high-heeled shoes, smiling graciously behind flawless make-up, while people marvelled at the poise of her bearing and her chic couture.
But nature was cruel. The golden-haired baby girl grew into a spotty awkward teenager. There was no extraordinary mutation from ugly duckling to elegant swan for her; no amazing transformation in her teens nor late-blossoming in her early twenties.
And so she became a writer, acclaimed for her literary accomplishments while sheltering beneath the camouflage of the well-turned sentence and gorgeous prose.
What lies behind your wordsmith’s mask?
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Written in response to two challenges:
Di of Pensitivity101‘s Three Things Challenge – LADY, PERFECT, HIGH
Denise Farley of GirlieOnTheEdge‘s Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt – MARVEL
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Nice one!
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Thanks, Di 🙂
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I think she had a better deal. 👍👍👍
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Oh yes, most definitely!
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🙏🙏🙏
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I love this! That last sentence gave me pause, though. What does lie behind my wordsmith’s mask? Do I dare look?
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I’m certainly not looking in the mirror! 😉
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Ha ha! 😀
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Love sentence 5, Chris. Perfect 🙂
Great to read another SSS!
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Thanks, Denise! I am enjoying these 🙂
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Very relatable – our words will always outlive us in the end, so best make them good!
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Such will be our legacy. That’s a little daunting, don’t you think, Tom?
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Haha Chris, you had to go there. 😅
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Well, you know me, Jude! 😉
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On this, I plead the 5th
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😀
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There is no better camouflage than that “of the well-turned sentence and gorgeous prose.” Excellent stuff here.
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Words to hide behind… thank you!
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Love it. A good deal in the end, and all power to her.
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Thank you! And, yes, she definitely got the best deal 🙂
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Hmm… now you have me wondering. Maybe that’s why I always wanted to write, ever since my teen years. I can relate to the awkward teenage girl in this. But writing always allowed me to create whole different worlds to be in. 🤔
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This is just perfect!! I can so relate!
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So pleased you enjoyed it, Michelle 🙂
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Ah. The beauty from within. . . deeper and much more lasting. Good six.
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Thank you! What could be more beautiful than wonderfully crafted words.?. 🙂
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I’m not sure what’s behind my mask. It probably needs a lot of perfecting.
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We all keep our secrets, Frank!
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You have presented an assignment to do some introspecting for you readers. 🙂
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So it seems! 🙂
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“…sheltering beneath the camouflage of the well-turned sentence”
very well said.*
Good Six!
*and very insightful, at least in terms of many of us here, in these pages.
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Thank you! Why else would we be here..? 😉
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Many writers were awkward teenagers, I think. I certainly was. It goes with the job!
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I’m sure you’re right, Stevie (sweeping generalisations aside).
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The transformation did then happen, so cleverly told.
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Aha… so it did! 🙂
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Loved it.
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Good one 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Well done!
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Thanks, Lisa! 🙂
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That took me in an unexpected direction! Loved the metamorphosis!
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The power of the pen (or keyboard, perhaps)!
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Under my mask? My lips AND my nose…I have many sentences to write before I’m done (knock wood!).
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I do hope so, Liz!
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My braccaneer’s mask is just behind my wordsmith’s mask, Chris. And then my creator’s mask. And then my superhero one.
Luckily, they’re all paper-thin at the moment! 🙂
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And we see tantalising glimpses of all of them, Tom 🙂
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Hopefully we’ll get to see a lot more soon, Chris.
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Oh, I do hope so, Tom. Unleash your inner superman and surely the rest will follow in time. 🙂
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We shall see. The characters are becoming restless…!
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Ha ha! I know that feeling! 🙂
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