These sentences (based on the challenge found here) are based on my original novel, The Manigoldo. It's about magical humans who steal stuff. Awesome idea, isn't it? It's currently my major project, so expect to hear more about it in future posts.

Follow up:

50 SENTENCES – "GAMMA"
THE MANIGOLDO

#01 - Ring
Although she told him time and time again to not buy her things with their stolen money, Nicodemus still managed to surprise her one last time with a gold ring as a birthday gift.

#02 - Hero
Nic told her that getting involved with the FDC would only result in death; he had a point, she conceded -- being a hero usually meant such consequences.

#03 - Memory
She would always remember those red eyes, even as she left; those eyes so full of love, arrogance and desperation.

#04 – Box
No four walls could ever hold them as much as the fear of such containment.

#05 – Run
The wind blew through her hair as they went, the thrill piercing her heart as their feet pounded the asphalt.

#06 - Hurricane
Rain poured down in sheets, the choir of demon snarls and hisses, and the pure sense of chaos made her think she were trapped inside a living storm rather than a battle.

#07 - Wings
How Arlene flew so high without fear, Miranda never knew, but the sight often instilled in the human a sense of pure awe.

#08 - Cold
She found it hard to believe that such a gentle man with such a warm heart could have the face of a glacier when confronted with a fight.

#09 - Red
Ah, the glorious nectar of life, one that flowed so perfectly from the gaps and holes, filling the air with its sickly sweet aroma -- it was what Red lived for.

#10 – Drink
Getting drunk with her roommate seemed to be the perfect solution in Miranda's mind, after such a night; the memory of people getting torn to shreds was easily remedied by hard liquor.

#11 - Midnight
It wasn't as though he had trouble getting to sleep; some nights, Vincent just couldn't ignore the allure of watching the night sky by himself.

#12 - Temptation
The look in her eyes and the fullness of her lips was enough to make all of Nicodemus' self control to go out the window.

#13 - View
The horizon gleamed beyond the city as the sun made its way up into the sky once more; for Arlene, a sight like that was enough to reassure her that it was okay to keep on living.

#14 - Music
The sound of him singing when he thought he was alone was heartbreaking, but Miranda never told him that she had heard; or that she cried.

#15 – Silk
Dresses weren't her usual style; but seeing the expression on Nic's face when she walked down those stairs was enough to make up for the change.

#16 - Cover
Miranda knew it couldn't last forever; one day, Gabriel Hess was going to be knocking on her door and it wasn't going to be for Adrianna.

#17 - Promise
When he told her, "if things go badly, get out," she calmly replied, "no way."

#18 - Dream
Fifty years ago, he made the decision to follow a goal; fifty years later, their dream was still going strong.

#19 - Candle
Miranda couldn't explain what attracted her to him anyway; it was so, so easy to end up burnt, just like the moth.

#20 – Talent
They all considered him to be so powerful and gifted, and frankly, Miranda had to agree; she had never met a man so talented with death.

#21 - Silence
The others couldn't figure out what was worse after they lost their teammate; the fact that he was gone, or the dead void that had evolved between them all.

#22 - Journey
It wouldn't be easy; she knew it, but it still stung whenever he, the others, or her secret white world reminded her of it.

#23 - Fire
While the whole world viewed and believed his calm façade, he knew that inside him welled a fury that he knew, if unleashed, could take everything he loved and hated and leave nothing but ashes.

#24 - Strength
It was so easy to pretend that she could keep up with them on the field; it was even easier to know she would be backing them up with her never-ending source of plans.

#25 – Mask
The hood could provide her cover, but her face needed none; those cold eyes and unmoved lips of that stranger in the mirror were enough to fool even herself.

#26 - Ice
Fire coursed though his veins and his personality could melt any heart, but when Miranda caught him by himself, she could see frost forming on his face as he gazed out onto his great work done.

#27 - Fall
Miranda wondered in hindsight how she could have gone this far without realizing the depth of which she had fallen.

#28 - Forgotten
When Miranda went cleaning out her drawers one day, she was surprised to find a book she hadn't read in some time--a book she lately cared to kindly forget about: the Bible.

#29 - Dance
Peter had to admit it when on that rare occurrence when Red got drunk; that woman could pull some moves.

#30 – Body
It didn't belong to them anymore than it belonged anyone else; what the Flow wanted, it got.

#31 - Sacred
The humans had their Bible, their messiahs and promises of salvation; the demons were content with what they had in the tangible and yet so illusive god of their own that lived within them all.

#32 - Farewells
As that door shut, locking him in it, condemning him to death with indifferent finality, she suddenly realized that she never had the chance to say 'good-bye.'

#33 - World
It was them against everything else and always would be; none of them ever expected anything less.

#34 - Formal
He was never one to act improper towards a lady and he would be damned if he were to be anything less toward a member of his own team; Nicodemus just didn't know when too much was too much.

#35 – Fever
It was fascinating how a single and temporary virus could make her feel so miserable; it was even more fascinating when she had eight demons hovering over her until it passed.

#36 - Laugh
It had taken them forever to get her to laugh, to smile with them, after all they had done, so when she did, it was unsurprisingly…nice.

#37 - Lies
"Don't lie to me" –-it was ironic that such a powerful being couldn't do that one thing for her.

#38 - Forever
The mark on her arm was more than a shackle, more than a branded curse--it was a symbol that tied her infinitely together with the others, making them one strong chain, unbreakable, until the ends of time.

#39 - Overwhelmed
Some days, it was hard to get up, not because it was morning, but because of the fresh memories of violence that still clung to her mind from the night before.

#40 – Whisper
"I just want to know, what are we -- OW! Don't hit me, I wasn't talkin' that loud!" "Peter, shut up."

#41 – Wait
Hunched over in the darkness of the bank, Peter waited; he didn't like it, but he did so anyway, because if anything, the kid knew how to arrange a party.

#42 - Talk
No matter how often they stood around, waiting, watching each other, Miranda knew that a single word could blow up everything they managed to build for themselves as partners.

#43 – Search
It had taken her across state lines, into a city she could barely stand, into the very heart of darkness that had once been so alien-- but she had finally found her little niche in the world, right in the center of it all.

#44 - Hope
Someday, he wouldn't have to get up everyday to the violence; someday the two groups would get along; that was the only way to think, or otherwise, Hess never could have gotten up at all.

#45 – Eclipse
The city waited, sleeping and wide-awake, for the outcome of the war going on in the streets; they were waiting to see if a change of order was upon them.

#46 - Gravity
No matter how many times he thought he could get out of this business and just live a life of peace, the call for violence just brought him in deeper.

#47 - Highway
There were no exit ramps on this path she told, no side roads or last minute stops--there was no way out of this life she had chosen.

#48 - Unknown
The Flow was unlike anything she had ever seen before; so ghost-like, so surreal, so beyond the world itself.

#49 - Lock
There was nothing that could hold her back; if Arlene wanted in, person or thing, she found a way.

#50 – Breathe
Everything was still and they were making their way back to the base; the battle was over and they had won--but it was only when Nicodemus grabbed her hand did Miranda realize she had been holding her breath the whole time.

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I mention some characters here. Miranda is the main character. She's really smart. She steals stuff. Kinda a b*tch. But she's quite the genius, albeit with problems rationalizing morality. Red is a superstitious sadist. Peter hates everything. Arlene is the nice, motherly one who has wings and a temper. Vincent is a nice dude. Hess is a cop. Adrianna is Miranda's hippie roommate. And Nicodemus is the dude who ruins everyone's life. Sorta. It's complicated. That's all you really gotta know. There's actually a spoiler in one of these for book two, but I doubt anyone cares. I like these sentence things though. Very easy to write, but great for getting me writing again.

The Manigoldo + characters (c) Rebecca Washburn.