Went to Word Play last night (my college's creative writing club) So, to resurrect this... I post two exercises I did.
For the first one, we had to write a scene based off someone mishearing a word. The words we had were "liquor" and "vicar."
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"-Having the vicar over for dinner?"
This immediately got my attention. I rolled off the couch and stumbled up. I was hung over and needed a fix.
Liquor for dinner. I knew there was a reason I married Joan. She knew me so well. Ahhh, how I love English women.
I got into the shower, not wanting the smell of last night's drunken escapades to linger into tonight's. As I let the hot water run over my goods and I stood, scratching my butt, I tried figuring out how Joan planned on preparing liquor for dinner.
Hmmm, maybe it was some kind of sauce where the alcohol doesn't get cooked out. I didn't know. I trusted Joan, and decided to let her surprise me.
I got out of the shower and put on my ripped jeans and ICP t-shirt. I went into the kitchen to spy on Joan, but she heard me. Turning to greet me, she gave me an appalled look.
"You can't possibly expect to have the vicar over while wearing such rubbish!"
"Who the hell is Victor?"
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The second exercise was a fill in the blank type thing, and we had to work off that. "Until _____, nothing notable had happened in the town of Madison since the year of its founding.
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Until the Fiery Freak Fest came to town, nothing notable had happened in the town of Madison since the year of its founding.
Fiery Freak Fest was a traveling freak show, known for its sexually titillating fire acts. Their arrival had not been welcomed in the small Christian community. Women barely covered by leather spinning fire into intricate patterns of circles and topless men consuming flames as if they were cotton candy, and of course, all of them, their bodies were canvases for metal hoops and tattoo machines.
It was not enough to boycott them, for when Jan decided to sneak out of her room at night to see them, her friends followed. Soon, the freshmen did the same. Within a week, all the children of Madison had seen the Flaming Freaks.
A sigh of relief came from all the adults (since the open-minded ones had left upon turning eighteen) as the freaks of nature left to plague some other town.
But the fires did not leave with them.
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