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Lipogrammatic Challenge; No A

A tiny, intense genre is constrained writing. You're doing it already, writing under the constraint of 1,024 characters. Another interesting constraint is avoidance of a very common letter, as in the French novel "A Void." It's 50,000 words long, none of which contains the letter "E". Read about it here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void Write a story that does not contain the letter "A".

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5 entries
  1. The Field

    Author: nikkibaker

    Robbie looked up to see the blue sky with its fluffy clouds, wondering how it got so sunny this morning. The night before, liquid dripped onto the roof, the…

    May 14, 2014 · Ficly archive (1)

  2. Solitude

    Author: Oliviarose

    The words creeping out of your mouth own definitions. Solitude, Sol-i-tude, noun, living by oneself; seclusion. I live by it, not on purpose though. Others…

    May 13, 2014 · Ficly archive (1)

  3. The word

    Author: Job

    I went down the steps, counting them. My uncle told me there were precisely two hundred, but I didn’t feel I could trust him. Therefore I counted. My uncle…

    Apr 25, 2014 · Ficly archive (2)

  4. Dennis, His Missus, Or Something Else

    Author: THX 0477

    “Dennis. Dennis? Dennis!” “You’re very shrill when you get tired, you know.” This, mostly likely, did not represent the best response in the given moment. He’d…

    Apr 16, 2014 · Ficly archive (2)

  5. The Broken Typewriter

    Author: ItsMeChristina

    She dolefully looked down upon her typewriter. How could she write her story without the complete set of keys? She never thought of it before, but one missing…

    Apr 16, 2014 · Ficly archive