Where The Road Drops on the Vocal Summer Challenges.

There we were, happily writing on a perfectly normal day

scratching our heads and imploring the right words

to appear like magic from the gods of thin air

when suddenly...WHAM!

We were hit with a deluge of challenges

befuddling our senses...A queer sensation descended

like being on a quite normal road

Which suddenly developed a giant pothole

Into which we all went tumbling headfirst

without a parachute or a lifeline to save ourselves

Then we emerged unto a convoluted highway

With no end in sight.

The Summer Writing Program had arrived...

Oh, dear God. Where to begin...not 2, not 4, not 6, 8,

9 or ten...But 12 (twelve) different topics, deluging

our brains all at once.

...Ok...In no particular order, there was

1

This is How I remember it...conjuring ghosts of time past

2

Light Broke the Water.

3

Yet...Everything Looked better from far away.

4

How to begin...Will it be from Somewhere Between Here and There

5

For Vocal...You were never really here. My brain is fried at this point.

6

Is it The Second First Time...or the third last time. Oh Dear.

7

I really want to say Things You Can't say out Loud

8

Wishing it happened in A Summer That Wasn't

9

So, Please Leave The Light On

10

While I give Instructions For Disappearing

11

From, The Shape of The Thing

12

As, The Road Drops Here

~~~~~Did I miss any, or add some which don't belong. Its all a blur.

But....

In the Immortal words of Isaac Asimov...This was GOLD.

We got to dig up stories from deep within places which

we never knew existed...our brains were tested for AI's

favorite word...Resilience.

Now that it is almost at an end...We breathe a sigh of relief

Back to the more slow paced reaching of our brains

So, whether or not we win any of the coveted awards

Know that we all have already won...GOLD

For, we are all a little bit wiser and have surpassed

Our personal goals of creatively writing

Just for the fun of it all.

Good luck everyone...

And...Thank you Vocal.

We are going to strive for RHODIUM now!