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Gauntlet #9 
THE GAUNTLET! Feat. the Prompt That Kills PeopleWelcome to THE GAUNTLET, the event where you find out how hard you can write before it kills you! The prompts are arranged according to brutality: they get more challenging with each previous one completed.  Last year, we had no fewer than seven people finish all nine prompts without loss of life or limb, which is downright UNACCEPTABLE. Therefore, we’ve decided to once again challenge you all to test your mettle with this series of weaponised prompts, so we can line you all up posthumously and see who is the nastiest, gnarliest, touch-as-nailsest SOB in town. In short, prepare to be smacked around by these heavy-calibre prompts until you either live on as undisputed Top Dog or as a stain on the pavement.
Warcries, if you please.

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 ONCE UPON A HAPPILY EVER AFTER (666 words, exactly.) Making use of reverse chronology, spin a dark fairy tale that is also a reverse e-lippogram (all words must contain the letter ‘e’) in which all proper nouns (i.e. names) are palindromes (www.merriam-webster.com/dictio…) and in which you make at least one food-related pun. Include one sea-urchin, two evildoers, swearwords in three different languages, and write in one onomatopeia (www.dictionary.com/browse/onom…) that somehow contains a foreshadowing element within it. You start with the word ‘after’, and your last word is ‘once’. Your 333^rd word is: ‘verily’.


666 words - check 
spin a dark fairy tale - check
reverse chronology- check- bonus: the story is readable from bottom to top same as it's readable from top to bottom 
reverse e-lippogram- check 
names are palindromes - check  bonus: something is hidden in names
one sea-urchin - check
two evildoers - check, there are more than 2
swearwords in three different languages - check - merde, jebiesz jeze , Schweine
different language for literary convenience - since it never said i can't use them- nein and en (a dutch and)
one onomatopeia that somehow contains a foreshadowing - black cats meow an omen - check
one food-related pun - honey let's date - not one, but two food buns -actually there's a third
You start with the word ‘after’, and your last word is ‘once’. Your 333^rd word is: ‘verily’ - also check 
bonus: you find the hidden references

also did you know pianoforte is the official form for piano? i just did 

gauntlet successfully finished. 

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