Trifecta is getting record numbers of entries this year and we editors are loving every minute spent reading your words. Keep 'em coming and tell your friends. There's always room for more.
Uneven Steven takes first this week with a piece that captured our hearts with its sweet, yet unsentimental imagery. We had to give it a few reads to catch the layers.
Congrats to all our winners. Thanks for bringing the awesome, as always. On to the weekly prompt. Remember to check the third definition before submitting. Ask us or your fellow Trifectans if you're unsure. We want to be sure that your wonderful words qualify.
MOUTH
Uneven Steven takes first this week with a piece that captured our hearts with its sweet, yet unsentimental imagery. We had to give it a few reads to catch the layers.
Young handsGoodbye Whoopie Pie takes the silver this week with Perspective. We love the powerful message. Storied Impressions rounds out our top three this weekend with a killer personification line in The Hurricane.
like new wine skins
adorn the children
for one captured
moment
two hands clasping
a heart
like wings
everyone knowing
about letting go
that it can never
be as perfect
again
Congrats to all our winners. Thanks for bringing the awesome, as always. On to the weekly prompt. Remember to check the third definition before submitting. Ask us or your fellow Trifectans if you're unsure. We want to be sure that your wonderful words qualify.
1a : the natural opening through which food passes into the body of an animal and which in vertebrates is typically bounded externally by the lips and internally by the pharynx and encloses the tongue, gums, and teeth
b : grimace <made a mouth>
c : an individual requiring food <had too many mouths to feed>
2a : voice, speech <finally gave mouth to her feelings>
b : mouthpiece
3: something that resembles a mouth especially in affording entrance or exit: as
b : grimace <made a mouth>
c : an individual requiring food <had too many mouths to feed>
2a : voice, speech <finally gave mouth to her feelings>
b : mouthpiece
3: something that resembles a mouth especially in affording entrance or exit: as
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.
- Trifecta is open to everyone. Please join us.
Congratulations to the winners! I know I had fun reading about personified inanimate objects and animals. Of course now I'm afraid my stuff is always watching me... (:
ReplyDeleteCan we just sum up that third definition to: anything that looks like a mouth but isn't? :D I like the choices this time around. Sooo many possibilities.
Huge congratulations to all of the winners! I loved reading the ones I found. They were all awesome! I love this word this week. I'm sure I can think of something. Thanks to all that caught up with my entries! Your words are very encouraging!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all the winners! This was such a great challenge with so many awesome entries - I don't know how you judges do it...
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you Trifecta! What a thrill to wake up this morning and see Storied Impressions as one of your weekend winners. I am loving reading such wonderful work by all participating. This is really fun!
ReplyDeleteThank you to all who wrote such great fiction this past week. It was very interesting to see it all! This week's challenge is going to be a bit difficult, I do believe. Just not seeing it as easily. I'll let it stew/ferment overnight.
ReplyDeleteso many descriptive entries this week. honored to have my 33 words chosen . very cool. looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with this week :-)
ReplyDeletecongrats to all who entered and to the top 3. Well done. And, more record breaking entry filled weeks. Whoot!!
ReplyDeleteBravo the winners. Excellent choices, Trifecta. I shall be back to open all the mouths tonight.
ReplyDeletegreat stories, all & these were surely most deserving winners. can't wait to see how wide all mouths open this week! -j
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Uneven Steven, just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteTrifectans might like to know that I've had a story published online recently, This Old Man:
http://slityourwristsmagazine.com/2013/01/27/this-old-man-chris-white/
It uses this week's prompt, but in reverse - a human mouth, compared to a cave. It is a bit lewd, though, just a heads up! Now, mouth...the third definition...
This is my first post here, and I cannot link up.
ReplyDeleteI am at: http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com
Hi Sara,
DeleteThanks for joining! In order to link, you have to use your post's permalink. The linking service will not allow you to link to your blog's home page. So, for example, instead of entering http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com, you need to enter: http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/mouth/ Hope that helps.
Hey winners,hearty congratulations on making it to the top three:-)Had great time reading all the entries.This week,I am extremely busy(its 3a.m & i am still here,lol!)-so no idea when I will write something,leave alone read & comment-so glad its not community judged this time around,ha!ha!Well,happy creating & hope to sneak past my hectic "to-do" lists & submit my piece,before Thursday rushes by.Till then ,be naughty & have fun:-)
ReplyDeleteAnd,oh my God,already 40 entries-(groan)oh the pressure!lol!
ReplyDeleteWow, it's already tomorrow in comment-land. It is currently 2:53pm on 29 January here. However, if it is indeed tomorrow, I feel better because that means I've read more of the wonderful (40!!) posts already...
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed. I created the site, and I live in Hong Kong. So the times are Hong Kong. Where it is the crack of the morning on Wednesday. :-)
DeleteI'm having lots of fun with this. Amazing what people come up with. I wonder why I get a funny little red x after my link. (I'm using the perma link.)
ReplyDeletePerhaps the most commonly-asked question. :-) It's because it's your link, and you can delete it if you want (by clicking the x). Nobody else sees the X except for you.
DeleteIt is report card time for me at school so, for the next week or so, I will be commenting for pay so, sorry, probably no Trifecta comments this round and the next. But, to follow up on last weekend's Personification request, let me give you the lowdown. I presented several poems that I was given permission to share (thanks Cheryl, Lumdog, Wisper, Humantriumphant and, the dozens of others who gave consent but that, because of time constraints in class, I have left for another day). The students were very, very interested in reading my work and the comments that were left which offered encouragement for them to write and try some challenges. They all enjoyed the poems they saw and were able to pick out the personification, which pleased me. I have had one student so far come and say that they wished to try a challenge in the weeks to come so, this process of bringing your writing into our classroom is already paying off. Hopefully, another two or three will step up and share their work with you. In the meantime, good luck with this week's challenge. Congrats to last weekend's winners, too.
ReplyDeletethis is great! just great!
DeleteI was so excited to place again. It is a real thrill for someone who started blogging to figure out her life to find people who relate to and like what she has to say. I have such a good time working within the challenges of the prompts and LOVE what others do with them. It's a lovely community of folks and I'm so happy that I happened upon it by way of JannaTWrites of whom I am a huge fan. Thank you again and my apologies on the late comment. I've unfortunately caught what they believe is the flu so I've been bit out of commission but I am looking so forward to reading the entries for mouth and am so thrilled there are so many!
ReplyDeleteall right, my lovelies . . . I have read all and commented on the posts which allowed me to do so. Record number of entries read in one sitting. :) I think one did not open for me and will have to try to find it again.
ReplyDeleteI do have a request - I know it has been made before (ad nauseum perhaps), but for the newer contributors and the older ones who have not done so as of yet - a request:
please, oh please, allow me to sign in using a url/name combo WITHOUT having to prove to you I am not a robot. It is especially interesting to have to prove to you that I am not a robot and then see that you are moderating my comment anyway.
Please, oh please, do not force me to sign in to fb or twitter or somesuch in order to comment. It is several steps more than I have time to do, especially with 70 plus entries to read . . . and comment upon.
Now, I know that my words in your comments may not mean much to you, and I get that - but I do so enjoy reading YOUR words and would like to let you know that.
or not . . . totally up to you.
:) thanks :)
I can heartily endorse Barbara's comments. I like to get to as many as I can (if not all) and having to give name, rank, serial number and shoesize hampers this aim. As does the irritatingly obscured street numbers and jumbly words, which someone told me can be temporarily disabled. Am I the only one who has to rotate through several combinations before I can hit the jackpot? :(
ReplyDeleteLate to the party. ;)
ReplyDeletehttp://whimsygizmo.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/jar/