Submitted by acmfox on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 9:20pm

This challenge is about bringing about a notion or a nuance without ever saying it. We can tell the reader that Jack is angry, or we can show vessels bulging in Jack's forehead, or the way he repeatedly jabs his pen into the pile of Post-It notes.

For this challenge, pick a quality, such as color (red, green, blue), temperature (hot, warm, cold), size (minute, massive), etc. to write about. Write a scene or story (something longer than a couple of 'graphs) that expresses, but never directly states your chosen idea. Do include a note to tell us which type of quality (color, temperature, size, etc.) you're writing about. (E.g., My story exemplifies a color... what is it?) 

Readers should post a comment that gives their idea about what the quality is, as well as their reasoning. (I think this story suggests the color green because it's all about alien slime that looks like radioactive snot.)