smelliest sentence

Nosy writers! This week's nosy interviewee, Anne, alerted me this morning to a Narrative magazine contest you might like to enter. (Anne wrote here about two stories she recommends from Narrative). The theme of their Literary Puzzler this week is "Sensory Sentences," specifically smelly ones:

The best writing provides great sensory description, but of all the five senses—touch, taste, sound, sight, and smell—the last is a particularly challenging one to describe. How do you morph a specific smell into accurate and captivating words?

This week, Puzzler challenges you to capture that scent on the page with a single sentence about a favorite smell—from nature, from the oven, from memory.

Post your sentence as a comment on our Facebook page, or send it to Literary Puzzler, by Sunday noon, Pacific daylight time.

You can win cash at the end of the year (though I'm not sure how much, or how many other puzzlers you'd need to win to walk away holding the money), and you can count on me to admire your efforts.