Writing Resources from Fifteen Minutes of Fiction

Invent a Word: Marcasm

marcasm (n): That special sarcastic tone of voice which can only be attained early in the morning while still half asleep and unprepared to deal with the day. A combination of morning and sarcasm.

Example: When my fifteen-month-old woke me up at five o'clock in the morning, and insisted that I read to him a book of bedtime poems, I did so, but my voice was dripping with marcasm.

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