Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Velociraptor Chronicles part II

So. My creative writing class. Fun! Only my teacher prefers such somber, depressing literature. And gives us the most bizarre prompts to write about. Also, he seems to make a point of not calling upon me to read my resulting literary work (he calls on 2-3 people per class period to read something they have written. 5 weeks have gone by and I haven't been selected yet). So I decided that my goal in this class is to somehow incorporate velociraptors into everything I write from his interesting prompts.

This one was the Minimal Prompt. Trying to give us very little material to work with: we were told we were to describe our morning with one imaginary conflict, using ONLY nouns and verbs. No adjectives, no and's, a's, the's, or anything.

The writing prompt is only supposed to give us about 10 minutes. He gave us about 20. I ran out of stuff to write halfway through.

Awake. Alert. Sniff sniff. Aha: Liberty.

Embark – bed no more. Floor. Carpet. Stagger. Stagger stagger. Ouch! Wall. About turn! Stagger stagger.
           
    ‘Morning, Roommate! Asleep? Couch? Odd.
                           
    Stagger stagger. Fridge! Food! Food!

                                               …Waffles.

W A F F L E S.


W            A             F              F              L              E              S.

               And banana.

                   ‘Morning, toaster! Receive waffles!
           
            Oh, wafting scent! Wafting scent!
                           
    Kachink!


W      A       F        F        L        E        S.
     
    ‘Morning, syrup! Aha: the mapleness.
       
    Devour. DEVOUR. Devour.
       
    ‘Morning clock! Oh dear – 5 minutes. Time-lack! Depart! Shoes – on! Old Spice – on
(Hello, Ladies. Look – man. Back – me. Back – man. BACK – ME).
       
    Open door.
       
    ‘Morning, Velociraptor.
                   
    Velociraptor.


Shut door.
       
    Closet!

AK-47.
                   
    Breathe. Breathe. Pant. Pant. Sweat. Breathe!
                               
    AK-47.
                                           
        Open door.
       
            Velociraptor?
                   
                Gone.
                   
                Packs. Pack-hunters. Sneaky.

Left – nothing. Right – nothing. Class – Oh no! 3 minutes.
                                              
To class?
                                           
        CEILING!!!
                                           
            VELOCIRAPTOR!!!
            
    AK-47!!!
       
    Rambo.
                   
    Awesomeness.
                               
    Minus one velociraptor.
                                           
    Remove head. Trophy!
                                           
    Store head. Freezer. ‘Morning, other roommates!
                   
    Check watch – 1 minute. Run?
       
    …run?

…run?
WAFFLES

Okay, run.
       
    Run. Run. Run. Class! Run. Oh no! Clothes – velociraptor blood! Cold-blooded. Freezing! Return! Apartment! Return! Run! Pant pant pant BREATHE BREATHE BREATHE. Deposit clothes. Replace clothes. Depart! Trip – dead velociraptor! ‘Morning, ground!
                   
    Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Run. Breathe. Gasp. Run. Breathe. INHALE! Work, alveoli! Work, alveoli! Function, bronchioles!  Function! I think I can I think I can! I know I can I know I can! I KNOW I CAN I KNOW I CAN!
       
    Class! Door locked! Check clock!
                   
    I thought I could I thought I could (steal from Gary Larson!).
       
    Sit. Sit. Class. Read. Write. Module. Module!!!! Thoughts – not module-thoughts.
                   
    Not module thoughts.
                                  
Velociraptor thoughts!
       
              … waffle thoughts.
       
    module module module module
                   
    Story! Invented! Students inventing? Random! Merlin! Apocalypse! Zombies! Donuts! Submarine! ...velociraptors.
           
    Story – write. Morning? Morning. Morning. Morning – awesomeness. Velociraptors.

W A F F L E S
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                       Foundation
                       For
                       Long-
                       Endangered
                       Species

                                   …like VELOCIRAPTORS

1 comment:

  1. You seem to have an unhealthy fixation on waffles. And it does not surprise me at all to discover that you keep an AK-47 in your closet. Nor that you have used said AK-47. The velociraptor was new.

    Mornings at BYU-I sound dangerously exciting. Rexburg must be more eventful than its quiet small-town demeanor implies.........

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