Word for Word: Sword
I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: Sword.
The sun began setting in the forest, casting the sky in a purplish light and transforming the trees into tall, menacing sentinels amid eerily moving…