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Murder In Five

Time limit: 14 minutes

Story is so powerful, it can be told with as many or as few words as possible. If prompted, I bet you could tell a complex story, like a murder mystery set in your office, in just five sentences. And I bet you could do so with the added restriction of using a different sense in each sentence if you had to. Let’s find out!

You have 5 sentences in which to write a murder mystery that takes place in your office. Each sentence must use or imply a different sense in the sentence (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste). You can either use those exact words or imply the use of those sentences in the story but you ...

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