The Marvellous May Challenge!

[Hannah Faoileán]

The Marvellous May Challenge

170 years ago, the famous (and now somewhat controversial) psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud was born. This has inspired my choice for this month's challenge: your one perfect sentence theme is moral conscience. You do not have to use those words, but you must stick to the theme.

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 24th May after which voting will open for one week. Good luck and get writing!

 

[Anonymous]

Unless you’ve been in combat, you probably never had the pleasure of choosing between dying young as a hero and living a long life as a coward.

 

[Anonymous]

"He's just a little boy, don't you have a moral compass?"

 

[Anonymous]

Stalking the still city streets, the staccato of stilettoes the only sound, and with a syringe standing by, stepped so as to approach the senior citizen.

 

[Anonymous]

Andi will never know.

 

[Anonymous]

If it weren't for his moral compass, he'd blast them all to kingdom come.

 

[Anonymous]

He has the moral compass of an ant.

 

[Anonymous]

It is a truth universally accepted, that a married man or women who cheats, needs an injection of good morals.

 

[Anonymous]

His morals are a corkscrew; he’ll sell drugs to other kids but won’t sell them if his own kid is in the apartment.

 

[Anonymous]

Some morals cut deeper than cancer.

 

[Anonymous]

Jane looked at the gun pointed at her, looked at her husband, looked to her children and mouthed 'sorry' as she said, "I pick Jerry."

 

[Anonymous]

The obstetrician read the results of the amniocentesis, glancing up at Mr and Mrs Tenaka and told them, "the baby has Downs Syndrome..."

 

[Anonymous]

Mummy said no, Daddy said no, but Simon, who I only see, said to say yes.

 

[Anonymous]

He could help the man up from gutter and risk the vomit... or he could just walk away.

 

[Anonymous]

Bleeding and dazed, I pulled the election booth lever.

 

[Anonymous]

The dictator's moral compass pointed south, and that's where the citizens' morale was heading too.

 

[Anonymous]

AI may speak with a human voice, and it may eventually walk with a human gait, but it will never have a moral conscience - just the veneer of one.

 

[Anonymous]

Black widows eat the males after mating; they're a bit crunchy but ultimately satisfying.

 

[Anonymous]

As the drones strike home and I breathe my last, as jackboots march in digital lockstep across the playing fields of cyberspace, I wonder if anyone still remembers me.

 

[Anonymous]

Remember, the three hats are a binary choice, Harry, and you don’t get to choose – that would be unconscionable.

 

[Anonymous]

Conscience is a poor companion for sleep and an excellent one for remembering.

 

[Anonymous]

By the time the police knocked, I had already decided which lie to tell.

 

[Anonymous]

Whatever followed me home that night knows exactly what I did.

 

[Anonymous]

I’d promised myself not to meddle again, but my conscience has dreadful timing.

 

[Anonymous]

'We can help your child,' he said, 'but first you need to be honest about what you’ve already done.'

 

[Anonymous]

'The results came back normal,' she said, then paused, 'which makes your request much harder to justify.'

 

[Anonymous]

I crossed the line so easily I almost missed it.

 

[Anonymous]

Trump punched in the nuclear codes and thought, "that'll teach them."

 

[Anonymous]

Paul read the kidnapper's demand: if you want your wife back, you will kill your mother.

 

[Anonymous]

Her conscience had kept time more faithfully than any clock, and it had been ticking all night.