August prompt for .

"Write a story. It should be at least 1000 words but no more than 2000. It can be a vignette or a short story. It can be any genre. It can be any POV. Hell, it can even be in 2nd person!

... You can't use any adverbs."

"Hey!" I thought to myself as I sat down to write this, "You know how adverbs are one of your biggest flaws, and you include them without even thinking about it? And you know how it's going to be difficult enough to write this story without using any? Well, why don't you make up an entire universe and try and smash it into coherency in less than 2,000 words! That should be fun!"

I am a goddamned idiot.

Still, though, I had a lot of fun writing this. I wish I could've gotten into worldbuilding a little more -- I'm learning I have a strange fondness for sci-fi -- but the cap wouldn't make it feasible. I still had to include the story, after all.

Speaking of the story, I tried to smash as much coherency into it as a could without revealing anything about the attackers. "Nothing is scarier," after all, and I wanted to experiment with that. I figure I'm already going to suck because of my adverbial Achilles' heel, might as well go for super-suck.

Tell me what you think and point out where I fucked up -- although I checked a thousand times, every look through dug up another adverb, so there's probably one a lot more lurking in there somewhere.

EDIT: Fuck, I just deleted another one. Then realized that certain derivatives of "fuck" could be considered adverbs. Christ, I'm bad at this game.

It's been too long since someone told me I was retarded, and my ego's getting uppity.

EDIT 2, THE SEQUEL: HOLY SHIT I GOT A DAILY DEVIATION! This marks my first ever DD, and I am SO honored! Oh, my goodness -- thank you to for the feature!

I would also like to thank the following:

for pointing out a few bits and pieces that I needed to work on.

for being such a lovely little helper -- I can't thank you enough for all the assistance you offered me!

and last but definitely not least,

for creating a group that constantly sparks my imagination, and for giving a prompt that pushed the boundaries of my abilities.

Also, thank you so much to everyone who's commented, faved, and watched! I can't tell you how much I appreciate you all. Thank you, thank you, thank you!