Here’s a Sunday game for you (assuming you’ve finished your six-word memoir, that is):

1. Write two sentences.
2. Create tension between them.
3. Define “tension” any way you want.

The task comes courtesy of Marcus Gould, who started the website two sentences (or 2entences) in September ‘06. It’s a resurrection of a creative writing project with which he achieved brief notoriety on a forum called Brainstorms way back in (gasp) 2001. “As a creative person,” writes Marcus,

“I am fascinated by structured improvisation. Completely free-form improv doesn’t interest me, because a game without rules leads to anarchy, and anarchy is usually ugly. On the other hand, a completely rigid game quickly becomes boring. Great rigidity stifles creative play.”

Word.

Warning: this game is not easy. It’s deceptively hard, and that’s what I love about it.

Extra bonus: the Digg-like internal rankings system. Bestow plus-ones on entries you like, and deep-six ones you don’t.