LJ Idol Week 36 - "Tiles"

[jexia]

Jill suppressed a sob, wiping a faintly grubby hand across her reddened eyes. Sorting through her mother's house was proving even more difficult than she'd thought it would be. The kitchen had been a treasury of childhood memories; the good bowls used only at birthday parties, the carving knife sharpened to a thin spine of itself, the "special

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[tsuki_no_bara]

holy shit, the end. O.O i love that jill and her mom can only communicate in words of seven letters or less - and that it takes jill a couple of tries before she figures it out - and i love that the really sweet, loving conversation between the two of them turns to bloody vengeance on mom's part. she's got some bitterness and anger stored up, no lie. it's a really good twist ending.

[jexia]

Hee, thanks :)

[crisp_sobriety]

Awesome!

I like the mom's style.

[jexia]

Cheers :)

[hosticle_fifer]

An interesting take on a sort of Ouija board! Also - JACUZZIS - Blanks are zero points, I hope they didn't dole out an extra sixty points for that second "z"! ;)

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Once, I drew a Scrabble hand that exactly spelled DRLOVIN. I wonder what the spirits were trying to tell me.

[jexia]

I thought about writing it as "JACUZ?IS"

And heeheehee!

[talon]

I was totally not expecting that ending.

This was a really neat take on the prompt, and the dedication to the premise - using only words that spell things - was great!