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Welcome to the first (?) HL2.net story contest!
The Rules
- Entries must be between 300 and 1000 words long.
- Entries should be in prose form, though abberations are acceptable.
- Contestants may write about anything they wish as long as it conforms to the stated topic.
- Closing date is 3pm Saturday 3rd May.
- NO discussion in this thread, only entries.
Discussion thread here.
The Topic
The subject this week is: "Make the commonplace strange."
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to break the grip of the 'familiar' by describing ordinary things in unfamiliar ways. Through whatever method you wish, you are to undermine normality in some way, to make the 'ordinary' seem extraordinary. Observe the following stanza from Christopher Reid's 'Pea Soup':
Reid is describing something perfectly familiar. It's a person cutting open a pod of peas. But he is able to make it seem weird, to 'defamiliarise it' so that we are able to look at it in a new light. That's your job now. Write about something we all know, but make us see it with new eyes.