O6: Only

Only a trip to the the Walmart outside Culpepper could make Jamie feel skinny. Only returning to his own neighborhood could make him feel unforgivably fat.

N6: None

Sometimes the words are a jackpot, other times, a dud.

Today's word offers almost no inspiration. In fact, it inspires "none."

M6: Marriage

It wasn't marriage that tired Dennis, it was the fact that Marjorie expected him to think about "their marriage" every single day.

L6: Lift-off

Both of them knew it. Lift-off, which usually freed them, with a chiming silver spring of release, from the pressures of everyday life, wasn't going to be enough this time.

Winter Clothes

Thought I'd refresh the look for winter.
And I think my next challenge, albeit still more than 12 letters away, will be consecutive sentences. I've still got 18 rounds of the alphabet to go. That's 144 sentences. It might just give me a solid start.
New look!

K6: Kill

"I would kill for a moon pie right now," Reston said, the tension in his jaw making Heck wonder if perhaps he really would.

J6: Jag

Not the TV show, not a "crying," but a great, searing gash in the landscape. Something out of Tolkien or a post-apocolyptic movie filmed with white-out heat.

After three days' climb, they crested the hill, only to face the jag, a red-dirt gash in the landscape that separated the brown lands - which they'd been trudging across for days - and the green places they had glimpsed before only in happier dreams.