the PURPLE PROSE OF MARK E. RUMLEY
The first annual Mark Rumley Award for abuse of a thesaurus goes to Mark Rumley. Mark's self-crafted fiction and inglourious misemployment of the English language at the Medford City Council is thankfully a thing of the past. Mr. Rumley getting thrown off of a witness stand by Judge Yee in Somerville Court for not being a witness could not be saved by $34.oo words, nor when Mark was shut up by Joe Vig at the Medford Housing Authority board when Mark found out that the Housing authority really was a "separate body politic." "You, sit down," I said to Mark, ordering him, spanked like a little school boy. Jess Zafarris from Writer's Digest has this to say: Thesaurus Abuse
Visit a thesaurus website or grab a thesaurus from your book shelf if you have one. Search or flip through until you find five preposterously verbose, bombastic, grandiloquent alternatives for everyday words. Using all five terms, write a scene about a character who writes “purple prose” or speaks in overly flowery language. Official Mark rumley thesaurus, limited edition, with foreword by ex sgt barbara decristofarrrroh! and backward by hackword harry macgilvray
https://www.writersdigest.com/prompts/thesaurus-abuse-writing-prompt
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