The Awesome August Challenge

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Hannah Faoileán

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For those of us in the Western Hemisphere, a total or partial solar eclipse will be visible on August 12th. This has given me inspiration for this month's challenge.

Include the word eclipse (or derivatives thereof, verb or noun) in your One Perfect Sentence.

The rules are simple:

  • Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by the basic rules of English grammar. We will notice if you squeeze unrelated clauses together and pretend it's a sentence, so please don't do it. Your entry will be disqualified and removed.
  • Don’t comment on other people's entries – this makes the thread far less readable. If you’d like to make a comment – or if you have a question – then please do so in the Café Life thread under the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any general questions. If you have a question you don't want others to read, please private message me directly.
  • You can make as many entries as you want to, but only your entry with the greatest number of votes will win a place (and Litbits).
  • IMPORTANT: You MUST make your entry anonymous by ticking the “Posting as Anonymous?” box. Entries that don’t do this will be removed.
This competition will close midnight (BST) Sunday 6th September after which voting will open for one week.

Good luck and get writing! :writing-hand:
 
The total eclipse of the sun by Titan from the Rings was the most beautiful sight I would see -- and the last.
 
After a total eclipse of the sun, a giant creature appeared in the sky and swooped down to devour us all.
 
The eclipse darkened the skies and that’s when the fires erupted.
 
“It has been foretold,” whispered the storyteller, “that the next eclipse will trigger the world’s death.”
 
Kate bided her time, warm in a hire car around the corner from his house, the knife in her lap, waiting for the expected eclipse.
 
The eclipse fell, setting loose a gazillion poltergeists on the hunt for souls to torment.
 
The eclipse hid their presence as they dumped the body in the dumpster.
 
If you thought dogs and cats went bonkers on a full moon, wait for the eclipse.
 
Eclipsed by her mother's talent, she wrote the first line anyway.
 
Eclipse stood at the centre of the star as the supernova outshone the sum total of everything she had ever loved, until...
 
My love for him was eclipsed by my love for our son, so I rammed the knife into the heart he vowed would always be mine.
 
Somehow, the eclipse not only blocked the sun's rays from my eyes, but the hate I'd been carrying from my heart.
 
All my life I'd been waiting for someone else to come and eclipse the hurt from the past that constantly burnt me, but now I realised - it was all down to me.
 
When you've been eclipsed all your life so no one can see you shine, you have three options: give in, shine brighter or kill the moon.
 
That dang eclipsey when I wen' blind, I just gone eighteen but it weren't old daddy Sun that dun it, no siree.
 
It was when she realised her talent would always be eclipsed by the next big thing, that she opened the drawer and took out the gun.
 
'My love, what do you expect at the eclipse, for I have nothing more to give?'
 
The transition from eclipse to crescent sun was the moment the vampire overlords knew they’d been tricked.
 
When the famous agent walked into the party, adjusting the angle of his hat and wearing an apricot cravate, James suddenly knew who Carly was writing about in that song about the total eclipse of the sun.
 
She couldn’t understand how an eclipse had eclipsed the one day of the year she set aside to let her hair down, kick off her stilettos, and get down to some nice, relaxing murder.
 
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