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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! :writing-hand:
 
Some people say there's nothing we could have done to prevent the Fall, but I'm not one of them.
 
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The people who stayed silent before now raise their voices and fists in outrage that nothing was done sooner.
 
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'It's only one bite,' they said, but they didn't finish the sentence: '...that will take your soul'.
 
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Finally, the world’s politicians stood in the dock and now they’d be the ones on the receiving end of the moral justice they’d been pitching.
 
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This girl is hot-damn gorgeous and she's coming on to me, of all the fine luck, so the question is: do we drink the night away and keep the fun rolling, or do I go home to my boring wife?
 
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For three weeks, we staked out Harlot Row, vainly hoping the killer would return to his hunting ground, and sure the generic van witnesses had described drove under street lights, and the driver was none other than my brother.
 
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The compass lay in the dirt, cracked and dented, points barely legible (good, virtuous, noble on one side; bad, nefarious, evil on the other), its red and black arrows jammed to the far right.
 
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When we discovered that Eugene had been seeing his nineteen-year-old girlfriend for the past four and a half years, it was easier to laugh than acknowledge the dubious horror of it all.
 
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Even the truest statements become empty words when they are mindlessly spoken and never followed up with actions.
 
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It's been six weeks since my rape, and still no period, and for the first time in my life, I'm scared of what my future holds.
 
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"Yes, Sir, I know sabotaging traps is illegal, but not doing so would have led to an animal suffering a prolonged and agonising death."
 
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Between the split second my car hit the hitchhiker, and driving away, telling no one, the trajectory of my life changed.
 
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