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This week's word is...
shadow

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off and please stop back later!)

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word game wednesday

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From:

wandering_fox

"A whole economy based on gambling, drugs, human trafficking..." A shadow crossed Duo's face. "It all had to go."

From:

museaway

I really like this use to describe his expression!

From:

poppyseedheart

I'm with Duo on this one, a shadow would cross my face too considering the topic!

From:

stefanyeah

Yes, that economy really sounds like it should be gone…

From:

stefanyeah

A very freshly written shadow before I call it a night. Needs some smoothening, too.

Behind the floating man, a group of people dressed in black appeared. They seemed human in shape, but their movements seemed off. Like shadows flicking in candlelight; sometimes smoothly, sometimes abrupt, changing form without intermediate movement.

From:

poppyseedheart

I love this metaphor, simultaneously beautiful and unsettling! "Behind the floating man" also has me very intrigued as an opener... who is he? Why is he floating? Many questions!

From:

stefanyeah

Thank you. :D

He's our current satanic Pope, Papa V Perpetua. And he's floating because that's something he actually did during the Skeletour. 🤭
If you squint, you can see him behind the drumset at the back of the stage. Vid should start around 8:20~

From:

wandering_fox

Ooh, I love this description!

From:

stefanyeah

Thank you. :D

From:

poppyseedheart

This one comes after our POV character is revealed to have cooked enough food for a veritable army instead of sleeping the night before.

"You can pretend I'm not even here," Jisung insists, bee-lining for the fridge. He's forcing cheer, so opposite the shadowy slip he'd been just days ago when he and Chan and Changbin barged in like they thought a confrontation would help. "I'm just gonna eat. Don't complain, you need the help, this is insane."

From:

theemeraldgirl23

Interesting! Is cooking something the pov character does to cope with something? The fact that he spent the entire night doing it tells me Jisung is not entirely off with his insistence on helping the pov character. He must be going through it.

From:

stefanyeah

Better eat that whole food then! Now, is the amount of food insane, or is there more insanity going one besides?

From:

theemeraldgirl23

From an original novel I'm working on. The context is that the pov character, Ishani, is playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with her best friend, Arya.

I inch closer. Our knees touch. I reach out. She grabs my hand. It’s like we’re kids again, camping up in Show Low, in a small tent with a lantern as our only light. We would hold hands, make shadow puppets, and tell stories about them.