Describe your year 2023, or a moment in it, in 23 words exactly.
Gotham Writers sponsors a contest for this every year. Here are samples from 2021:
We stood in the yard smoking cigars while fireworks laced with Tio’s ashes burst over the neighborhood.
— Amelia Rodriguez, Hamilton, NJ
Guys in the meeting curse, then turn to me and apologize. I’m a flower, not a colleague.
— Suzanne Mattaboni, Northampton, PA
As the floodwaters rose, I hotfooted it to the supermarket for emergency wine. It was closed. Disaster!
— Nicola Moses, Limavady, United Kingdom
A Porch of Whittlers 