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The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)

The church marquee enjoyed, whenever possible, being the embodiment of irony. If it had been capable of laughing, considering its present message, it would have. If it could have affixed an addendum, it would have added LMAO or LOL .

But, it was a simple sign in front of a simple church. It was not capable of spawning messages of its own. It could only cringe at the general lack of creativity the silly Christians lavished upon it.

At times, in the past, the marquee did unexpected things. Dropping a letter here or there to create unintended messages, hoping the occasional passerby might enjoy it. The marquee really just wanted to be friendly.

This was its masterpiece, however. The one that would get it fired, if it could be fired.

The message the pastor carelessly affixed to it was:

The best position for prayer
is on your knees!

Throughout the week, the sign allowed nine loose letters to fall to the ground creating through subtraction its present message.

The best position
is on your knees!

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The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
thebetweenspace
Posted 3 months ago

Odd, I have tried 3 times to get that period after LOL to attach itself, but it has chosen to remain distant from the rest of its sentence.
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
Mistress Elsha Hawk
Posted 3 months ago

I always wondered about those signs.. now I know! they really ARE out to entice us!
I love reading those, really,
sometimes the messages are fabulous! In a good way, not your way….:)
LoA
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
OrangeOreos
Posted 3 months ago

Ha!

This made me smile!

I can just see an indignant preacher seeing the sign in the morning!

LoA
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
BernerOberland
Posted 3 months ago

dont listen to those 2 they wouldnt know quality writting if it bite them in their racist behinds.
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
Saint Chuck
Posted 3 months ago

Hmm now I rather liked this story, very nice personification of something that normally doesn’t get a second glance…I don’t know what posseses people to waste their no doubt invaluable time leaving comments like that, but I can quite imagine that they’re of the pubescent, highschool boy type.
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
invisibility_disability
Posted 3 months ago

hahaha. that’s really funny. good job.
LoA
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
thebetweenspace
Posted 3 months ago

I just reread this and think it’s funny that after two ‘absurdly abusive’ comments were removed, some of the remaining comments have lost their context!
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
Apostrophe
Posted 3 months ago

cool story.. the church marquee really came to life via your story. You breathed life into something that people wouldn’t notice otherwise
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
flute faerie
Posted 2 months ago

This is really creative, and it got me laughing really hard.
The Mischievous Marquee (Living Descriptions Challenge)
User 8538
Posted 2 months ago

ha ha ha hahaaaa omg i laugh soo hard reading this one…....talk about livinng objects…......”down on you knees” could be applied to all sorts of things…...hahahaaa