The Prompt
Where film and television can give us rich soundscapes and nuanced visuals, only the written word allows us to access the whole range of human senses. The challenge: write a story that uses touch, smell, and/or taste, and avoids visual and audio descriptions.
Delve into some of the other senses if you wish: proprioception / body position, nociception / pain, or internal senses like hunger, thirst, suffocation, or nausea. Give your character a more exotic sense like echolocation or the ability to feel magnetic fields, extrasensory perception or knowing, but limit or eliminate sound and vision.
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Elizabeth Twist
Elizabeth Twist (she/her), untames a garden and teaches meditation in Hamilton, Ontario. Lately she’s been writing about sacred pacts, systems of power, and fungi. Her stories have appeared in Dracula After Stoker, Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight, and Unfettered Hexes. Her latest piece appears in Agita Magazine:
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