5wordchallenge: indefinitely, outsmart, phantom, towel, alienated
How it works: Write an entry of any length or style using five assigned words. Bold the five words. Tag your post with 5wordchallenge and any other tags you wish to add.
The words: indefinitely, outsmart, phantom, towel, alienated
Chloe wondered how she could outsmart time. The challenge would lie in trying to mark where one rests in a measurement of something that goes on indefinitely. Had she alienated herself from the others in showing no regard for how they would fare against the phantom of doubt and the limitation of their fatigued limbs? Long after they had thrown in the towel, would they curse her for being jubilant in her solitary triumph? She wondered aloud which was the bigger adversary, time or her own need for validation.
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Thanks for the challenges, very cool!
Okay, so I get the first two sentences but got lost on the limitation of their fatigued limbs. Over what is she to triumph? How does her need for validation fit in the puzzle?
I feel like it's a riddle that I'm too dense to solve. :) Maybe it's a literature thing that's not supposed to transparent. Can you expound?
Here's my attempt:
There's no way in hell he'd be able to indefinitely outsmart the ionic sweepers that constantly scanned for his ship. Slipping past the outer perimeter, a mere phantom drifting through space, had been an impossible miracle. But that was nothing compared to the insanity ahead of them. He wiped the cold sweat from his brow with a small, filthy towel crumpled on the console within his reach. He'd alienated everybody who loved him to get to this very point in time and mission. The next three minutes will forever define him. Hero, Tyrant or Fool?
You're not dense, don't be silly. I tried to jam a lot into a few sentence (in my attempt to follow your skill in using the words so concisely from the last challenge).
She is driven by her need to compete, and win, yet still concerned about what happens when she beats the other people in the competition. She's a runner. She's in as much a competition with the clock as she is the other runners...she wants to win, but she also wants them to like her, not loathe her in the process. Her fear of rejection from them, is a demon, as is her obsession with the fastest time. If she opts for the best time, she loses her peers. If she opts to please her peers (by not beating them) she loses her battle with time.