[Closed] Which is your favourite piece from our August Write Off? http://fav.me/d5cu1hn Each entry was written in just twenty minutes from a random prompt!
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Never Judge a Book by its Odour"I was somewhere along the banks of the Amazon river when I noticed the Stench. It was there that I noticed it, I say, but I'm sure it had been around ever since I disembarked from my balloon. It was a new place, and there were so many interesting new sights, sounds and smells that one presence in particular can sort of pass you by, you know?"
"Why did you notice the Stench just then?" I asked.
"Well, you see, it was the way the trees moved. There was a fair bit of wind, but when the Stench was there they really racketed around. Frankly, I'm surprised I didn't notice it sooner. But I suppose I was distracted. After all, it's not every day you get a chance to document the movements of the Amazonian leaf eel. Unless you're a leaf eel biologist. But if you were, I imagine you'd get a bit sick of it sooner or later. Now where was I...oh yes! The Stench. The Stench was really quite remarkable."
I could imagine so. If it wasn't I would hardly be hearing a story about it.
"Yes. As I say, I ha
Controlled parasitismThe air was filled with the stench of unwashed bodies and rotting vegetation, the fungal farms were a rough place to work at any time of the year, but it was in the warm damp springtime when the smell was at its worst. The larvae tending to the bulbous, pale greenish blobs were normally younger ones, once the adult grew past a certain size the larvae struggle to do any physical work. The fungi grew on the waste from other agricultural industries, which also, as a rule, used mostly young larvae for their labour.
Still, Terin was pleased his work did not involve any contact with the first stage of his species' life cycle; he found them rather disgusting creatures. It was a shame they had to exist at all, in his opinion, but he couldn't think of another way for the adult to grow, if they didn't emerge from the husk of the larvae, where else would they come from? Some of his contacts who disagreed with the way the larvae were treated had suggested that the larval stage could be undergone a

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This was a really difficult one to decide upon, they're all such fascinating and unique pieces.