"What The Hell?" (by Seth Melton) - writing ex. #666: The Stinky Demons
Gist: A room has one large window, from which a nosy neighbor constantly glares. It's the middle of December in Antarctica with temperatures below human living conditions. It's 12:30 in the afternoon on Friday the 13th. These objects are in the room:
* jarred porcupine fetus
* a mentally challenged left handed gorilla wearing a gold tuxedo
* baby's first alphabet book
* gateway to another dimension
* soap box derby racer WITH windows
* Kleenex box with one remaining tissue
* a mentally unstable cockeyed hobo who is lonely. He has a "wandering eye"...his good one
Describe the room from the POV of a young man turned half hippo (which half?) who has come to visit his wife (not a hippo), whom he loves, after the relatively painless delivery of their lasagna. She is in bed with the lasagna and everything is happy, if slightly scary, since they are young and this is a new dinner together. Deliver his feelings through the description of items in the room. Then, describe the same room through the eyes of a janitor or custodian who is visiting a dying marsupial. (same conditions otherwise). The marsupial is dying of boxing injuries, and he/she is wearing comically big boxing gloves.
Gist: A room has one large window, from which a nosy neighbor constantly glares. It's the middle of December in Antarctica with temperatures below human living conditions. It's 12:30 in the afternoon on Friday the 13th. These objects are in the room:
* jarred porcupine fetus
* a mentally challenged left handed gorilla wearing a gold tuxedo
* baby's first alphabet book
* gateway to another dimension
* soap box derby racer WITH windows
* Kleenex box with one remaining tissue
* a mentally unstable cockeyed hobo who is lonely. He has a "wandering eye"...his good one
Describe the room from the POV of a young man turned half hippo (which half?) who has come to visit his wife (not a hippo), whom he loves, after the relatively painless delivery of their lasagna. She is in bed with the lasagna and everything is happy, if slightly scary, since they are young and this is a new dinner together. Deliver his feelings through the description of items in the room. Then, describe the same room through the eyes of a janitor or custodian who is visiting a dying marsupial. (same conditions otherwise). The marsupial is dying of boxing injuries, and he/she is wearing comically big boxing gloves.
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