Here is your prompt for the week. The game board is on the table and the pieces are set up. Who is playing which side, or is there but one player playing both sides to stave off boredom or to waste a little time? Perhaps there is no game at all and the board was set for the sake of appearance alone. There are as many possibilities are there are opening combinations, wouldn’t you say?
We would like you to say! Tell us what is going on at this board with a hundred words, left here in the comments or at your own web home with a link back to us, please. It is your move!
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She sets the board as they always have. The black is hers, to match the color of her hair – once dark as coal, now grey as ash. Brew the tea, light the candles, draw the curtains, pull out the chair on his side of the table. Fifteen years she’s waited for the match, her opponent forfeited much too soon. The hard pain in her chest, sharper than fear, tells her this may be the night she joins the game. She would sacrifice her pawn but she plays by the rules. As any good player knows, white always goes first.
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Matilda championed the macabre of the day by assimilating the role of Queen. She feverishly wrote down a list of neighbors, colleagues and the like. Then proceeded promptly to label the chess board with their names. What was in store for the unworthy? As Matilda moved the first pawn into action she wiggled her eyebrows devilishly as she knew exactly how to play out the move.