{"id":22905,"date":"2020-06-13T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=22905"},"modified":"2020-06-13T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T15:46:24","slug":"microfiction-practice-10-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/microfiction-practice-10-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Microfiction Practice #10: Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"smalltext highlight\"><em>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See <a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/revisiting-the-tiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this post<\/a> for the most recent background.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I kinda slacked off on this over the last week; my intention &#8212; granted, a vague one &#8212; had been to knock out at least three practice microfictions in that time. As things developed, though&#8230; (Even if you&#8217;ve just retired, even during a pandemic, there&#8217;s almost too much <em>possibility<\/em> with which to occupy your time!) So I&#8217;ve just drawn a new assignment out of the random-assignment-generator hat&#8230; and a result should appear here sometime between now and tomorrow noon(ish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the meantime, as you should definitely seen soon, other things are percolating away&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Assignment:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Genre:<\/strong> suspense\/thriller<\/li><li><strong>Word:<\/strong> <em>promise<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Action\/Subject:<\/strong> walking upstairs<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>Yum<\/em>. The act of walking upstairs almost by definition has suspense built-in; if I muff this one, I&#8217;ll be very disappointed!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See this post for the most recent background.] I kinda slacked off on this over the last week; my intention &#8212; granted, a vague one &#8212; had been to knock out at least three practice microfictions in that time. 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