Irina Lutsenko

My Creative Writing Contest "Mayonnaise" has come to its inevitable end, which is good because I can finally share the amazing stories by the amazing winners! The prompt for the contest was simple: Write a story that ends with the word "Mayonnaise." I am beyond thrilled to present another winner Natalia Larchenko . Her story is wonderfully weird, which was what helped her win. Don't be afraid to be weird and enjoy the story! ✽✽✽ How to fail (the IELTS exam) How can a regular city slicker blend in with seasoned farmers? This was the question that I started to mull over about two months ago when I first learned that my late uncle had been kind enough to have bequeathed me his splendid mansion out in the sticks. I visited the place only once before making a final decision of moving in. After all, it was easy to fall in love with peaceful walks in the dappled shade of trees, while listening to their rustle in the wind. Much more soothing than a rustle of bank notes...

My Creative Writing Contest "Mayonnaise" has come to its inevitable end, which is good because I can finally share the amazing stories by the amazing winners! The prompt for the contest was simple: Write a story that ends with the word "Mayonnaise." I am beyond thrilled to present another winner Vera Novikova . Her approach stood out immediately - she wrote a poem! Enjoy (and don't forget to change your password)! ✽✽✽ Etude If you reveal your secrets to the wind,  you should not blame the wind for  revealing them to the trees. Khalil Gibran Prelude A really gifted writer Would start by setting context To make her story brighter, Way vivid and more honest. My piece will lack specifics, Agenda and the looks. No Pulitzer Scientifics. A simple story of a crook. Overture – part one Feeling like a Sherlock Holmes In his shabby study A man was roaming someone’s home Alone, without a buddy. What was he searching in that place? A proof? A photo? Files? Perhaps, adulter...

My Creative Writing Contest "Mayonnaise" has come to its inevitable end, which is good because I can finally share the amazing stories by the amazing winners! The prompt for the contest was simple: Write a story that ends with the word "Mayonnaise." I am beyond thrilled to present another winner  Evgenia Karabatova and share her story "To hell with mayonnaise." See her interpretation of the prompt and enjoy her story! ✽✽✽ To hell with mayonnaise He flinched when she said he couldn’t have mayonnaise. You wouldn’t even notice it since it wasn’t a real flinch but more of a slight movement of his brow following eye following cheek following lip. However, five years of unprecedented togetherness taught her to detect any little change in her husband’s facial expression. She couldn’t miss it. At that moment they heard a loud thud from the nursery followed by a piercing shriek. “Bottle overboard”, she muttered knowingly. “I hate that game.” She stood up quickly...

My Creative Writing Contest "Mayonnaise"   has come to its inevitable end, which is good because I can finally share the amazing stories by the amazing winners! The prompt for the contest was simple: Write a story that ends with the word "Mayonnaise." I am beyond thrilled to present one of the winners Elizaveta Zanozina and share her story "Hypnotized." See her interpretation of the prompt and enjoy her story! ✽✽✽ Hypnotized I stood there watching him pour down mayonnaise into a salad bowl. He didn't just squeeze the pack, dropping unshaped mass of yellowish something onto the chopped vegetables. Not at all. Instead, he followed some sort of a pattern known to no one but him. Sometimes he stopped to shift his gaze from the bowl to the packet in his hand as if calculating the force he needed to apply in order to get a perfect line of mayo. He was always like that. No matter what was happening around, he would always take his time drawing inexplicable...

My Creative Writing Contest " Mayonnaise, " first ever, has come to an end. I am not participating, but I have written a story because I love the prompt, which was "Write a story that ends with the words 'Mayonnaise.'" I love it for two reasons (apart from the fact that I came up with it myself). First, it gives you a lot of freedom to write whatever story you want - serious or light-hearted, with or without a message, somewhat true or entirely fictitious. Second, it allows you to exercise your imagination because "Mayonnaise" can be anything - food, your dog's name, your nickname, your password, you name it. A lot of people ask me, "Why did you choose this word?" I am now ready to lift the veil. There is a book that ends with the word "mayonnaise" - "Trout Fishing in America" by Richard Brautigan . The author said, "I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.'" A...