Welcome back, Trifectans! We've got a lot to say this round, so let's get to it, shall we?
Remember that the winners from the previous community-judged summer Trifextra challenge will be announced in the comments section of this post and then formally introduced in the following post.
For now, we have the pleasure of formally congratulating the winners from the community-judged light challenge. Coming in first place was Bjorn who gave us The Briefest Freedom. It's at once both creepy and utterly engaging. Check it out:
Third place was another tie, this time between Lance who gave us a personal, heartfelt post, Overkill and Paul Clements's Hill of the Poisonous Tree, a piece that honors the experiences of those affected by the Khmer Rouge-led Cambodian genocide.
A huge congratulations to our five winners and a big thank you, as usual, to those who took the time to vote. The number of votes cast grows each week, and it's a ton of fun watching them roll in.
This week we have an exciting Trifecta twist. As previously announced, most of the summer challenges will be judged by teams of volunteer guest judges. The excitement kicks off today. Christine Hanolsy heads up our first team of three, including herself, Uneven Steven and RobboWrites. These three brave Trifectans will be responsible for reading your posts, commenting as judges, and then deciding the winners of Trifecta: Eighty-Two. Please join us in welcoming them. If you are still hankering for a chance to guest judge, feel free to drop us an email. Our schedule for the summer is all set, but if there's enough interest, we'd be happy to add a few more challenges to the roster. We want to give a turn to everyone who wants one.
This week's one-word prompt was suggested to us by the amazing LittleWonder. Hey, Little Wonder, if you've got more gems like this one, feel free to email us your ideas.
CLUB
1a : a heavy usually tapering staff especially of wood wielded as a weapon
b : a stick or bat used to hit a ball in any of various games
c : something resembling a club
2a : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a black clover
b : plural but sing or plural in constr : the suit comprising cards marked with clubs
3a : an association of persons for some common object usually jointly supported and meeting periodically; also : a group identified by some common characteristic <nations in the nuclear club>
Remember that the winners from the previous community-judged summer Trifextra challenge will be announced in the comments section of this post and then formally introduced in the following post.
For now, we have the pleasure of formally congratulating the winners from the community-judged light challenge. Coming in first place was Bjorn who gave us The Briefest Freedom. It's at once both creepy and utterly engaging. Check it out:
She’s walking on her bare foot down the dark corridor as usual. The crunch of her feet falling tells her that there can’t be many survivors among the bugs she’s crushing with her soles. At one point she used to care, but after spending enough time in this world people call the labyrinth, she knows that today’s travel might be exactly as long as the ones she’s done all the previous days she ever knew. She don’t really know her name but for many days now she has taken the name of Pollyanna, a name she faintly recollects could be viewed as optimistic. Sometimes during night she has strange dreams of herself dancing over green meadows.
Each day she knows that by the end of the day she will once more enter a room where there is light from an unidentified source and food that’s probably processed from the bugs, and sometimes even company, meaning that the scarce supply of food has to be shared. Every morning the light goes out and she has to select a new corridor, but she has ceased to care which one it is.
There could be an exit somewhere, and some of the people she has met talks about “the exit”, but she has also noticed that those people claiming to know where always the frailest and on their way to disappear.
Today though, will be a special day, there is a heaviness in her steps she’s never felt before, and she doubt that she can make it through to the chamber in time. She sits down, though she knows that bugs will start to crawl on her, and just as she feel her mind slipping, a trapdoor opens, and as she’s falling out into the bright daylight she knows she’s free for the few moments until she meet the blue surface far down below.Second place was a tie between MOV's perfectly Krispy What My Days Look Like and Maggie Grace's beautifully spiritual Fate of the World.
Third place was another tie, this time between Lance who gave us a personal, heartfelt post, Overkill and Paul Clements's Hill of the Poisonous Tree, a piece that honors the experiences of those affected by the Khmer Rouge-led Cambodian genocide.
A huge congratulations to our five winners and a big thank you, as usual, to those who took the time to vote. The number of votes cast grows each week, and it's a ton of fun watching them roll in.
This week we have an exciting Trifecta twist. As previously announced, most of the summer challenges will be judged by teams of volunteer guest judges. The excitement kicks off today. Christine Hanolsy heads up our first team of three, including herself, Uneven Steven and RobboWrites. These three brave Trifectans will be responsible for reading your posts, commenting as judges, and then deciding the winners of Trifecta: Eighty-Two. Please join us in welcoming them. If you are still hankering for a chance to guest judge, feel free to drop us an email. Our schedule for the summer is all set, but if there's enough interest, we'd be happy to add a few more challenges to the roster. We want to give a turn to everyone who wants one.
This week's one-word prompt was suggested to us by the amazing LittleWonder. Hey, Little Wonder, if you've got more gems like this one, feel free to email us your ideas.
CLUB
1a : a heavy usually tapering staff especially of wood wielded as a weapon
b : a stick or bat used to hit a ball in any of various games
c : something resembling a club
2a : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a black clover
b : plural but sing or plural in constr : the suit comprising cards marked with clubs
3a : an association of persons for some common object usually jointly supported and meeting periodically; also : a group identified by some common characteristic <nations in the nuclear club>
e : an athletic association or team
4: club sandwich
Please remember:
4: club sandwich
Please remember:
- Your response must be between 33 and 333 words.
- You must use the 3rd definition of the given word in your post.
- The word itself needs to be included in your response.
- You may not use a variation of the word; it needs to be exactly as stated above.
- Only one entry per writer.
- If you know your post does not meet the requirements of the challenge, please leave your link in the comments section, not in the linkz.
- Trifecta is open to everyone. Please join us.
