WRITING OBSTACLE

Write exactly 100 words about the face of someone that you love.

How can you condense an impression of someone that you love into exactly this word limit?

Of Benedicted Flesh

Your face is a fevered psalm I recite beneath the moon-split sheets—cheekbones catching dusk like twin alters, eyes molten with the quiet pain of ruined summers. Your mouth, a wine-dark wound I press to my own, bleeds secrets with every breath. The bridge of your nose—sharp, cruel, perfect—cuts me open again, again. I kiss the corner where smiles hesitate, where longing festers. You look at me like confession, like absolution dressed in sin. Your face is a storm I begged to drown in. And still, I beg. Still, I drown. Still, I call it love.

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