*This was a writing exercise where each person wrote 4-5 lines and then folded the top of the paper down to cover all but the last line. Then each page was passed to the right and then next person would write something based on the last line from the person before. The papers would continue around til it reached the original writer and they had to write enough to finish the story however they wanted it to end. Then each person read the whole story with some very interesting and hilarious parts to it.
This is my version of the exercise.
The alligator glided through the water
Looking for his dinner
A large wolf ventured to the water’s edge
Dinner is served
No, not steak and potatoes,
Nor chowder or Brunswick stew
But some chianti and fava beans
And one last ingredient…..YOU!
I plan to devour you first with my tongue.
Your fragrance will seep down to the deepest
Crevice of my palatial pallet. I won’t let a
Single drop of your desire escape me.
I won’t stop until you and I are both satisfied.
“Satisfied with what” he said. Having a voracious
Appetite for all things edible. He cleaned out
The fridge in a minute.
“Garfield!” Jon screamed. There was merely a
resonating horrific silence. All had become hushed
The world itself was quiet as the bombs dropped.
After the blasts, no static, no screams or shouts.
Only smooth resonance of nothing. He laughed
And thought, “Nuclear winter never looked this good.”
The ground rumbled. The sky parted and golden
sunshine spilled onto a bloodied and broken earth.
The earth growled and lurched forward
dumping people onto the ground.
The wet ground soiled their freshly laundered
clothes. “I told you we should have rode,” the new
hand shouted, “wagons are for old men and
women.” He stood trying to find a dry clean
place to wipe the mud from his hands.
But his jeans were as dirty as his hands.
And his boots were muddy. He knew his wife
Would skin him alive if he tracked anything
into the house that she would have to clean up later.
Maybe he would just shift back into his wolf form and
Go down to the river to clean up before coming home.
He would bring back the gator for tonight’s dinner.
That was enjoyable
ReplyDeleteInteresting exercise. Like the ending. ;)
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