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d I doubt you’d be surprised to see that this week is all about Sight.</p><p id="b5d2">Our dominant sense, not it was always so. Smell was there first, as little organisms in that primordial soup, we needed to sense what titbits we should eat or which ugly bobs we should rather avoid.</p><p id="b8d8">And it is by no means at the top by some i<a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105160852.htm">mmutable biological hierarchy</a>. No, our lofty sense, our all-seeing eyes, hold that place because of social and cultural reinforcement.</p><p id="1bd3">It seems our technology has followed this bias to proliferate towards bombarding this sense with flashy imagery in all its forms and also the fine measurement of its ‘superior’ capabilities.</p><p id="0abf">Either way, we saved sight for last because we use it so much in our stories. We spend paragraphs and pages on what our characters can see.</p><p id="80a5">Not this week

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.</p><h2 id="2347">This week it’s short and simple, so I’ll keep the prompt the same.</h2><p id="becc">A story with sight as its trigger. But 25 words and no bigger.</p><p id="3df0">They must act on what they see. Even if they do unwillingly.</p><p id="21dd"><b>Use the sorting tag</b>: Blind Spot</p><p id="a498"><a href="undefined">Paul Mansfield</a>’s recent story is an almost perfect (24 words) example:</p><div id="4744" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/expectations-1545cc840530"> <div> <div> <h2>Expectations</h2> <div><h3>Reality</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*[email protected])"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Weekly Prompt: Seeing is Believing

Bonus Round: The time has come for a single sentence

This is the fifth Friday of April.

It's almost as special as the seventh son of a seventh son. It’s a magical thing. Whenever we have one, it triggers:

A bonus round — a truly tiny story challenge. Using a single sentence or two, but 25 words and no more.

By now, the game is up, you’ve gotten the sense of what’s coming, and I doubt you’d be surprised to see that this week is all about Sight.

Our dominant sense, not it was always so. Smell was there first, as little organisms in that primordial soup, we needed to sense what titbits we should eat or which ugly bobs we should rather avoid.

And it is by no means at the top by some immutable biological hierarchy. No, our lofty sense, our all-seeing eyes, hold that place because of social and cultural reinforcement.

It seems our technology has followed this bias to proliferate towards bombarding this sense with flashy imagery in all its forms and also the fine measurement of its ‘superior’ capabilities.

Either way, we saved sight for last because we use it so much in our stories. We spend paragraphs and pages on what our characters can see.

Not this week.

This week it’s short and simple, so I’ll keep the prompt the same.

A story with sight as its trigger. But 25 words and no bigger.

They must act on what they see. Even if they do unwillingly.

Use the sorting tag: Blind Spot

Paul Mansfield’s recent story is an almost perfect (24 words) example:

Expectations

Reality

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