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Originally posted by

lindahoyland at Reuben's Writing Challenge

A special writing challenge for Easter and Passover.

Write a story of any length on any topic(Family friendly, please in honour of the season).

Award yourself the banner and post the story on your LJ and any archive you please with a link to this post.

Include these 6 words in the story for the Easter challenge
Rabbit(or bunny)
Egg
Cross
Tomb
Resurrection (or resurrect)
Bun

Or if you prefer, use these six words for the Passover Challenge.
Lamb
Herbs
Slave
Quail
Cup
Question

The stories don't have to be about Easter or Passover. For example, you can cross a road or be a slave to fashion.

Hope this coaxes your Muses out of hiding.

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Here's another, more general 6-word writing challenge from

lindahoyland: Reuben's writing challenge

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And, here's my response to the Easter one; to borrow the phrase from

methylviolet10b, there's "a metric ton of rust on the part of the author." Concrit welcome, as always!

My dear Watson:

I wanted to explain my prolonged absence and tell you about the case. A highly valuable Faberge egg had been stolen from the Russian Imperial Collection. I was investigating possible clues in the royal family's graveyard when I saw a rabbit hopping about. I was concerned that it would obliterate possible footprints and tried to shoo it off when I noticed that it sat down at one of the crosses and refused to budge. Curious, I came closer and noticed that the earth on that particular tomb has been disturbed recently. I was able to extricate the Faberge egg from the earth in but a few minutes. Unfortunately, the largest ruby on it was missing, and now I am endeavouring to trace it. Thus, I shan't be returning to England quite yet; you'll have to enjoy hot cross buns in celebration of our Lord's resurrection without me.

Sincerely,

SH