Spring 2003 Contest Winner - 100 Word Writing Contest

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"I learned everything there is to know concerning TV writing."

- Erica Lake
Accounting

"The combination of writing exercises and group feedback gave me the direction I never experienced in any other writing class. This class and instructor inspired me to finally do what I’d dreamed about doing for years."

- Gabriella Contestabile
Training Director

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Spring 2003 100 Word Writing Contest

1st Place Winner

My First Lipstick...
by Susan George
Oneida, NY

Grasping the lipstick case tightly, I moved to the mirror. Slowly unscrewing the colorful stick from its tubular home, I began to feather the pink onto my puckered lips. With just a few strokes my lips looked like the models’ on TV, or so I thought in my adolescent naiveté. Walking with new confidence, I descended the stairs where my father waited to drive me to the dance. Seeing my freshly painted smile, he handed me a Kleenex and without explanation said "Wipe it off."

2nd Place Winner

Two-Step
by Dianne Ciccone
Ringwood,NJ

"How many women would do the things I do for you?" She rubbed his sore feet as they sat on their porch steps and watched the male fireflies dance for mates in the hot summer air.

He laughed, knowing he'd be lost without her.

Years later, he sits by the metal bed and tucks the edges of the blanket under her flaccid thighs. The TV blares "Top Hat." For the first time in their life together, she stares at him without recognition. He strokes her hair and watches the blinking lights on the monitor while Fred and Ginger spin.