One Word

[Anton Djamoos]

http://oneword.com/

This site is a cool way to do some writing every day. It gives you one word to start the basis of your writing and then a limited time to write a short something/nothing about it. Try it out...why not post some of yours in here? Below you can find my first one for today, August 5, 2008. I took it from the perspective of an insane asylum patient reminiscing the first time he was in a certain situation.



Jar

Because the first time I went to the hospital I was fine.

I was jarred from the crash, but the "glass in [my] back" and the drip of blood from my forehead meant nothing. I was fine; I needed to get back and, strapped to a gurney for the first time, I did not know how to get out. But, that was the first time both of these situations happened. I got better at escaping.

[OveriseFan]

http://oneword.com/

This site is a cool way to do some writing every day. It gives you one word to start the basis of your writing and then a limited time to write a short something/nothing about it. Try it out...why not post some of yours in here? Below you can find my first one for today, August 5, 2008. I took it from the perspective of an insane asylum patient reminiscing the first time he was in a certain situation.



Jar

Because the first time I went to the hospital I was fine.

I was jarred from the crash, but the "glass in [my] back" and the drip of blood from my forehead meant nothing. I was fine; I needed to get back and, strapped to a gurney for the first time, I did not know how to get out. But, that was the first time both of these situations happened. I got better at escaping.

Very cool site. I'll definitely be using this.

And your piece has some nice stuff that's definitely usable. as of now it's a little repetitive and jumpy (natural for a free-write) as well as blunt, but with some polishing it could be great. And some of it works, because this guy's insane, so he wouldn't always think cohesively.

Nice work, and a good idea Anton.

[Anton Djamoos]

Very cool site. I'll definitely be using this.

And your piece has some nice stuff that's definitely usable. as of now it's a little repetitive and jumpy (natural for a free-write) as well as blunt, but with some polishing it could be great. And some of it works, because this guy's insane, so he wouldn't always think cohesively.

Nice work, and a good idea Anton.
Thanks. I don't think I'd ever use it for anything because I don't have any experience with any insanity other than what I've read in books/seen in movies, but it was just what came after writing that first line. It's cool to just take a different perspective from what you're used to with One Word and just try out something new for a paragraph or so.

[OveriseFan]

Thanks. I don't think I'd ever use it for anything because I don't have any experience with any insanity other than what I've read in books/seen in movies, but it was just what came after writing that first line. It's cool to just take a different perspective from what you're used to with One Word and just try out something new for a paragraph or so.

Hm, definitely. It's a shame, and yet could be fun, that everyone has the same word in a day.

I'd love to see everyone do this excercise today, and post it if they feel comfortable. I'm gonna do it after I shower.

[ArTkY_]

Triangle

I was caught in a place I didn't want to be. On one side was this girl that I'd known for years, I knew she had feelings for me. But I couldn't give up what was on the other side. The girl who I'd just met recently who'd turned my world upside down (in a good way, mind you). What could I possibly do? I contemplated tearing my heart into two pieces and handing them over to each of them.


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This is a lot of fun, dude. Everyone else wrote about actual triangles, haha. I felt kind of dumb. And I didn't even mention a triangle. Damn.

[TK]

Triangle

Triangles, I learned the name at such an early age. I remember picking up a triangular object, and wanting to throw it.
The next thing I did, I don't quite remember except that my mom got scared and said you're moving with your aunt and uncle in Bel-air

[thespearkid]

Triangle:

The three points of the triangle are the only barriers to our freedom now. Trapped in the bermuda for over sixty years, we're now on the verge of escaping back to reality. However, at a time when my crew is full of joy and happiness, I couldn't help but feel fear. Would I be court marshaled for my actions the previous year that trapped us here in the first place?

Edit: Had a lot of past/present tense problems there. Twas fun.

[ArTkY_]

I didn't think this would die, haha.

[vandalsandquinn]

Silver

the first time I saw the silver bell, it branded it's imprint in my memory. the gleam that caught my eye all the way down the street.


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I haven't written anything in so long, man I had a brain block ahahah

[thespearkid]

Silver:

Poke'mon Silver was the only game I ever loved. Of course, like everything I loved back then, it was destroyed. I remember that poor cartridge had been through so much; getting chomped on by my dog, getting washed, etc. But one visit with Cousin William and it was ruined forever. That was the day my childhood ended, in a way.

[vandalsandquinn]

Silver:

Poke'mon Silver was the only game I ever loved. Of course, like everything I loved back then, it was destroyed. I remember that poor cartridge had been through so much; getting chomped on by my dog, getting washed, etc. But one visit with Cousin William and it was ruined forever. That was the day my childhood ended, in a way.
that was the first thing I thought of and didn't write it ahahahahah

[Mitch]

Thanks for posting this site, it's a cool idea.

[GuitarR0cker1]

Thanks dude this should help me quite a bit with my writing.

[djUbilla]

The silver half dollar I found in my pocket reminded me of only one thing. Rehobeth Beach, 1958. I couldn't believe it had survived the years. The dust, the mice, (the time!). Surely something should have made this a lost memory. Regardless, she was back in my life.

I had to make sure my wife didn't notice any sense in my demeanor.


//This is awesome. I hope I remember to use it everyday.

[GuitarR0cker1]

gold and silver isn't worth the trouble. it steals your soul. exploits your mind from its true treasures. silver is a drug for the greedy and the deprived.

This was my try of an accoustic lyric for silver, when it popped up. Kinda bad but of course it was rushed.

[GuitarR0cker1]

Holy crap, I sat down for about 5 minutes and I already got a nice short song to along with my lyrics. Now time for some refining.

[thespearkid]

Diamond:

Diamonds are forever but how long is forever? Families, love, God. All are said to be eternal but, for me, all died within a month of each other. Of course, I had to hide the devastation that come with losing one's diamonds, lest I be labeled "emo" by my peers.

[TK]

Diamond:

We're all unpolished pieces of rock. It takes a lot to make a diamond, a lot of pressure, but once it's done, it's unbreakable and beautiful. We must go through hard times in our lives, that will seem like they will crush us, but it's only when we've been crushed, that we can truly shine.

[TK]

Diamond:

Diamonds are forever but how long is forever? Families, love, God. All are said to be eternal but, for me, all died within a month of each other. Of course, I had to hide the devastation that come with losing one's diamonds, lest I be labeled "emo" by my peers.

Haha, I really liked that, except the emo part.

[vandalsandquinn]

Diamond

Cutting through your diamond shell is far from easy. The shine that appears glamorous is only a coverup to hide from your problems.

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I don't think I'm ever gonna be able to write more than like 2 sentences for this hahaha

[TK]

Better to write two lines that are good, then a paragraph that's bad.:shrug:

[vandalsandquinn]

this is very true

[ArTkY_]

I can't come up with anything for diamond. :-(

[Anton Djamoos]

Better to write two lines that are good, then a paragraph that's bad.:shrug:
Better to write anything than nothing.

[de la sympathie]

The diamond ring she wore wasn't a real diamond. She didn't think real diamonds yellowed with time, or that real diamonds were set in fake gold bands. But, she figured, a drug store diamond was better than a ritzy hotel fake-promise half-compromise any day.

[thespearkid]

Severe:

Severe weather was the only thing stopping me from seeing her. I found it strange that after all I'd been through just to be able to call her mine, a little rain and thunder was standing between us. "Maybe I should just go." I thought. A flash of lightning, represented a resounding, "No" from Mother Nature.

Eh, that was a tough one.

[brandnew=love]

wait were they supposed to rhyme... if not, I think I screwed up haha...
severe:
The severe car crash out in the distance
The ambulance giving much needed medical assistance
Driving closer I can finally see
The one who’s lying there is actually me

[OveriseFan]

wait were they supposed to rhyme... if not, I think I screwed up haha...
severe:
The severe car crash out in the distance
The ambulance giving much needed medical assistance
Driving closer I can finally see
The one who’s lying there is actually me

Wow.

Nice twist.

They don't have to rhyme. It's freewriting. There's no rules. You aren't supposed to think, just write.

[mattybobviously]

Such an awesome site, will use this every day.

[brandnew=love]

Wow.

Nice twist.

They don't have to rhyme. It's freewriting. There's no rules. You aren't supposed to think, just write.
Thanks :-)

[mikeyystyles]

Coal

Echoes from this hole, my voices and this coal, its black and quiet ,i hate the silence
i dig my way through, in the end i see a view ,its bright and its you.

[thespearkid]

Vintage

Vintage albums. The snarky music snobs buy them, not for any musical reason, but just so they can prove to themselves that their taste in music is better than everyone else's. These are the people who only buy vinyl albums, discuss proper usage of the word "emo", and name drop obscure indie bands at every turn.

[OveriseFan]

Vintage

Vintage albums. The snarky music snobs buy them, not for any musical reason, but just so they can prove to themselves that their taste in music is better than everyone else's. These are the people who only buy vinyl albums, discuss proper usage of the word "emo", and name drop obscure indie bands at every turn.

...

You have a crush on me, don't you? ;-)

[thespearkid]

...

You have a crush on me, don't you? ;-)
Ha. I was actually thinking of someone else on this site when I wrote that. <.<

[The Personist]

Bump! because this is such a cool idea.

[bootsydan]

Recall

It was a windy night. The waves shifted against the pillar. The dust blew into darkness. I was laying on my rooftop with her, but what she said I don't recall. The words didn't matter.


Ok, kinda cliche haha. 60 seconds is tough. And I like this idea.

[TK]

Recall

Flip the pages of a calendar, mark each special date with a reminder. Don't bother trying to recall a event big or small. Just look at this collection, just look at this collage, just look at this laziness, and stay staring in awe at what you've frame and hung on your bedroom wall.

[SomedayTheFire]

Recall

i recall the day i lost my childhood, awash with colours i went towards the light, hoping, praying to see the one person that mattered more than anything, a casket, a heart, my grandfather.

wow that sucked, but was fun, I will continue to use this.

[ArTkY_]

Great bump.

[The Personist]

Recall

As I recall, it was a warm summer's day. To the letter, I'd think it better to forget the rest and simply stumble through, an amalgam of failed commiseration and lust. I don't know what else to say, but your beauty is paralleled only by the mirrors.


Blech.

[11:11]

Recall

That night on the boardwalk, when everything seemed perfect. I won you a giant stuffed elephant, because they're your favorite animal. You looked at me with eyes that said "I'd rather die than be anywhere else."

[fishingthe_sky]

recall all the information you've ever known. everything is already been done, according to buddha et al. there's nothing you can't figure out, nothing you can't remember. i remember your face, and my face next to yours, it looked like one for a time, split in two like time usually does, it's all we can do when faced with a clock.


What a horrible and wonderful way to procrastinate even more.

[as_we_learn]

Recall

Recall every memory inside my soul. Barrel down the consequences until i start to fold. Oh the people that i loved are getting old. I still miss our youth and how much we used to know.

[bootsydan]

These are very enjoyable/challenging.

Gentle

Her foot slipped going down the stairs, I grabbed her arm. Gentle, man. Gentle, man. She stumbled on the sidewalk, I helped her in the passengers side. Gentle, man. Gentle, man.

[fishingthe_sky]

Waltz

we waltzed a brittle waltz. handled gently, delicately, like using chopsticks on rice, or assembling a watched. but the timing was a well-formed error, and each drop on three fell off beat.

[HammersNStrings]

Waltz

The way her hair fell down her shoulders, like a cascading waterfall of gold in the moonlight, is what I remember most about the first time I danced with my mother. I was 12 years old. She smelled like Dove soap.

[Metal Now]

Glossy

Her lipstick. It distracted me and distracted my heart, it made my mistakes for me. She smiled and I worried, but it was lost.

Meh. Love this site though.

[fishingthe_sky]

Glossy:

the glossy sheen of the car hood denies us a true mirror - the taint of red or black or blue or gray does not represent a true reflection. perhaps the wax coat protects us from seeing what we are - we are not machinists, we are men.


I didn't like this word. Not one bit.

[TK]

Glossy

The tone of this situation was humorous; why did you shine with a lackluster performance?

[The Personist]

Glossy

A sheen so bright it blinded greeted me at the door. I quickly shut it, wondering why I stood on the threshold of my disaffection so candidly. I pulled a pen from my pocket and started writing on the walls:
I'm really sorry. Wrong number.



That was awful. I hated the word, and I have no idea where what I wrote came from.

[eliselovesmusic]

My new favourite site. Apparently writing without thinking unlocks your subconscious. Creepy.

Dislike

Dislike is only a state of mind. If your dislike someone, or even something, one could say that this is due solely to pessimism. One could also argue that dislike is due to dislikeable occurences in one's lfe. Another could dislike the previous statement and then we would both simply have to agree to disagree on the terms of dislikability.

[bootsydan]

Dislike

Negativity.



Am I ironic or what!

[TK]

Dislike

Content, I would say not
But I have learned
To deal with what I've got;
To make the best with the materials I was given;
To mix old colors to make new ones
Because it may look like shit, but it is what it is
And now I'm learning to look at the whole picture
Instead of all the small, little details
And it scares me, it scares me, it scares me of what I see

[The Personist]

Dislike

There are a lot of things I dislike, but i prefer them to those I like on principle alone. If I were happy, how could I write? I need something to impel me, something to move me along like a giraffe to the leaves in the trees. The window glare gives me a headache. I still listen to Cradle of Filth. and yet I would not trade any of it for a single modicum of complacence.

Wow. haha. Mine's a bit ridiculous.

[bootsydan]

So it might've taken closer to 5 minutes...

Tea

Riding around on horseback 'til the sun was at the hills. We didn't stop cause we couldn't see the track anymore, or cause I was drenched up to the knees. I guess the weather don't matter sometimes, especially when you're completely lost. So I forgot about my whereabouts and just rode into the trees. The greens I saw were so indescript I thought "this could be anywhere." No one could prove me worng. So I turned into a drunk old English migrant performing an age old English tradition, and turning to Caitlyn smiling, I said "Majesty, pass me a cup of tea." She then got on her private jet and flew back across the pacific, she said "I don't know where we're headed, but man I feel so free."

[Hamlet]

Tea

Teabagging can be very dangerous if not performed correctly. Nuts can get caught in the mouth the receiver, catching on lips, and possibly teeth, causing excruciating pain for the teabagger. One must stand over the victim at a perpendicular angle to ensure the correct entrance vector.

[The Personist]

Tea.

I don't understand why you don't like green tea. It's probably my favorite. It's so soothing and relaxing, though I must admit I only drink it to stay awake at night.

[fishingthe_sky]

Tea:

both the west and the east once had customs for tea. what leaves to boil, which hand to pour with, whom pours for whom. these customs are still held up in small tea houses, where one can pay a high price for anachronisms that they will appreciate for a moment, and surely forget in a month. this is tradition, supposedly.

[SomedayTheFire]

Ugh I did not like today's one.

Tea:

The inner monologues of my head raced as i sat at the table. Facing the greatest enemy of my fragile teenage years. The indus flowed from my face, drenched. The in-laws perched beside the mantle with tea in hand.

[doppelganger]

Tea

Teabagging can be very dangerous if not performed correctly. Nuts can get caught in the mouth the receiver, catching on lips, and possibly teeth, causing excruciating pain for the teabagger. One must stand over the victim at a perpendicular angle to ensure the correct entrance vector.
haha

[bootsydan]

Sweep

Late nights closing. No more empty shelves. No more dust and bugs. Just a shrine fit for a house inspection and a pay cheque in my pocket. I put the broom in the closet and locked the door.

[TK]

Sweep

Awkward happenstance, impolite gestures
The mumble words of apologies
Brushing against your shoulder
In sweeping motions to grow closer
Oh of the pathetic paths I take,
I am ashamed.

[bootsydan]

Well

Fished for pebbles at the bottom of the pond. Skimmed them til they were all over the other side and thought, "Now the lake is as unbalanced as me". But the tide will rise and fall and things will slowly even themselves out. So I keyed the ignition and turned on home, thinking all is well for now.


I liked this word. Many different ways you could take it.

[The Personist]

Well

The other day, I got water from a well. It tasted awful, like someone had just poured stagnant lakewater down that dreadful hole. Reflecting back on it, I'm more upset that it wasn't the transcendental experience everyone told me it would be. I still went to bed at 3:30 and woke up at 11, though I did sleep in my clothes.

Eh. I never like my output for these, but I find myself pulling phrases to write with.

[TheRealMartian]

Well

"I knew he had fallen down the well. I just didn't know how to get there. The moon was just enough overhead that I could see his skin. How this man fell I didn't know. Too many questions and not enough rope. I yelled for help and some rope to pull him up, but nothing."

Totally didn't like how that turned out. Pretty poor. I really like the site though, will keep me entertained.

[The Personist]

Pretend

Sometimes, I like to pretend that I'm some sort of genius. It's very interesting, as i sit around with a pen in my mouth, wearing a button-down shirt and scratching my head pensively. I like to fantasize about being famous, about being deep, about being important...but, of course, I realize it's all affect. All I'm good for is a few big words and correct grammar. I've never done anything of import. I've never done anything valuable.

[fishingthe_sky]

Pretend:

animals pretend to be other animals all the time. there's a fly that looks like a bee, and it mostly gets the same terrified yelling and hand sweeping that bees get. it hovers, though, like a fly, which a bee can't do. it can be discovered as false. people are good at pretending, too - but the ramifications are the same: someone getting squished.

Ramifications wasn't the right word. Damn it.

[anrooles]

RETURN

o the return of the dawn after night comes around and the sounds of the chariots in the back of my head. i slept so cordial and with out a frown and now the return of the dawn is going down. i hate you sunrise but i love your set as i jaunt about with a lonely cigarette. castles are fragile.


..whatevs

[TK]

Win

Relaxed, a cooling sensation began to pour over me. It is finished, over with, through. I won. And yet, I fear disappointed. I fear exasperated. I fear unhappy. I found more joy in the race than the actual victory, than claiming the prize I've chased after forever.

[bootsydan]

Win

I came up with two. Mainly because as soon as I'd finished doing the first one a conversation I was having with a friend inspired me to write something else. Both are as stupid as each other.

Number 1:

Quack. Quack. Quack. Quack. Quack. Quack. Go Ducks!

(No, I haven't seen the mighty ducks recently)

Number 2:

I was "cashews" in a breezy tune
She was "macadamias" with a beating drum
I was "this is one hell of a topic to get passionate about"
She was "You think I'm a 'nut' don't you? Haha."
I was amused
She was embarrased
I said "You're a winner!"
She changed subject

(true story)

My creative side is really on fire tonight

[The Personist]

Charge

The Charge Of The Light Brigade is highly overrated.

Those words had scarce left her mouth when my heart began beating the only two syllables that mattered anymore. Was she wrong? Absolutely! But it didn't matter! The ensuing debate would last for hours as we tried to convince the other to change their mind about this, but all I wanted was her mind. I was in love with an abstraction.

[dancetheplank]

charge

you make me feel electric in the worst way. I want to unplug and let the batteries die. but they're still full of your charge.

[bootsydan]

Don't let this thread die!

Balcony

The table was full of empties. The sun was rising the same place it had the day before. Twenty stories up could've been a cabin in the woods; I could've been stark naked and proclaiming my love for Budism and I doubt even a crow would've looked up. So many people packed into such a small space, living like tourists, yet I felt like the only person in the world. I'd just finished a conversation with a girl I'd met a few days ago and probably wouldn't see ever again. We'd decided an early morning swim was in order, so she was getting ready.It was hard to think that in a few hours time the streets below would be so full of traffic. Sometimes I felt like early morning was the most wasted part of the day. Othertimes I felt it was the most useless. I could never decide.


I broke the rules again and took about 5 minutes. I also would've liked to explore the concept of being on a balcony and being able to see everyone around you/hear the peoples music and tvs next door etc... But this was a true story and the first thing that came to me, and I also don't have another (5) minute(s).

[LastMikeDown]

this website is awesome, actually made me want to post, here goes for my first one.

Staring out into sun set,
only the horizon reminds me how far apart we really are. And no matter how much I try to reach you, I can get no closer.

Eventually the sun will set and fall into to the ocean, like every night, I still get into bed & fall asleep with you.

[fishingthe_sky]

I did one for balcony when it was up:


the balcony sighed in the groggy summer heat. planters held humidity-soaked azaleas and had sweating mexican beers resting on their edges. a cat walked precociously on the barrier gate. we sat and watched the showers roll in.

[bootsydan]

I did one for balcony when it was up:


the balcony sighed in the groggy summer heat. planters held humidity-soaked azaleas and had sweating mexican beers resting on their edges. a cat walked precociously on the barrier gate. we sat and watched the showers roll in.

I really like this. Good stuff.

[fishingthe_sky]

Ink

the ink bled through the page onto her white skirt. the accident looked a bit like africa, i told her. unamused, she threw the pen upon the desk, scoffing at me. take it off, i said, because no skirt is worth this much trouble.

[saysmydoctor]

Ink

Ink blot imagery is the ideal kind of abstract. Splash the paper oils on papyrus and let the masses decide what they see. Individual democracy.

(No idea of what I was going for.)

[thespearkid]

i've seen you post a ton of times but i never noticed you were from NC.

[The Personist]

Ink

Sometimes, I just think about all the different ways I can write the lower case letter "d". With but a single pen stroke, you avoid the clumsy looping of cursive and get a mysterious hook of a voiced syllable--"duh." But the loop, perhaps, adds the character and prestige to this interesting little letter. Sometimes I just smear the ink so I don't have to know what it looked like and worry about the appearance of my handwriting.

I have no idea where that came from.

[samsara]

Ink

There used to be a bottle of ink that I would play with when I was younger. One day I dropped it and then it spilled on the floor. The floor then had a stain that is still there to this day.

[doppelganger]

Ink

a drop ignites a sudden thought.
the ink spills in cursive,
rousing a deluge.

[saysmydoctor]

I love this website, figured I'd do another one.

saving

I was saving lives outside an animal clinic last Tuesday. I was using two fingers to pump blood through tiny hearts and going mouth to snout on beagles who were unfortunate to run after a stick across a four-laned highway.

[The Personist]

Saving

I always wonder what I would consider worth saving in the event of a fire. Usually, my first thought is of everything I've written and never myself. If I could heave every scrap of paper buried between sheets, stuck under beds, trapped between books' pages, and haphazardly bound in three-ring binders or Mead notebooks out the windows, I would be OK. Even if I perished, I'd be happy with it.


Mehhh...

[screamoutmyname]

Cool idea, but I don't think I'd be able to stay interested in it for more than a few days.

[doppelganger]

Saving

there is no hope left for desire when saving only the saints. a fear of abandonment fixes men in adversity.

meh

[bootsydan]

Saving

"Cheque, savings or credit?"
"Spendings" He replied. "No point being optimistic about the situation."

[Empire Of Sun]

Love this site.. pity you only get a word a day! I love reading other peoples stuff too it's pretty weird the variety of different outlooks people have on just one word. Anyway here's mine:

Clutch

I had my foot on the clutch, and her hand was on top of mine. She stared deep into my eyes, and with a laugh I landed my foot on the accelerator. This was gonna be fun.. and with that we drove away from all that we knew and all that ever knew us. We could start again

Thanks! ;)

[The Personist]

Magnetic

The magnetic poetry board lacked expletives. That was the first thing my eleventh grade mind noticed. Where were all the double-entendres, the built-in innuendos, the dirty sexual slang terms? The closest thing we had was "suck." The teacher threw that one out through a hole in the screen of the window in a fit of rage, though.

[beazer32]

i really like this site.. i find whenever i do it, my entry isn't even really about the one word. it's more like a word association that triggers something else in my mind. but that keeps it fresh i guess

[fishingthe_sky]

i really like this site.. i find whenever i do it, my entry isn't even really about the one word. it's more like a word association that triggers something else in my mind. but that keeps it fresh i guess
That's ok, though. The word's just supposed to be a jumping point!

Yesterday's was Whirl. I thought I posted it, but I guess I didn't.

the whirl of a merry-go-round, the whirl of the children's sparklers, the whirl of a pretty girl dress. these things come with the weather.

[newtothis]

This is my first time with this. It is pretty cool actually.

Cabin

I once went to a cabin in the woods. Dark. Lonely. Sad. Therapeudic. I missed him so so much. I couldn't believe the loneliness until I got there, actually. It pulled me. Grabbed at me. Sucked me into a vortex of... I don't even know what! It was just... so... full. Of everything and nothing. Nothing that mattered anyway.

[fishingthe_sky]

This has gotten buried, so I'm bringing it back.

"Drip"

You are the drip of dreams into waking moments. Nothing real ever feels quite real, but really I'm liking it quite fine. If this is the means to dreams, then dreams are not ours to keep in sleep.

meh.

[bailmeout13]

Writers block, so of course One Word has a lousy word for today. Paws.