12/28/2014

Three Books at Story Time

I had the random idea to do a random fun thing because fun things are fun. Yes.

Okay, so here's what's going on: I took three books and I'm going to find a random sentence in each of them. Then I'll use those sentences and try to put them all in a tiny story. That has probably been done before, but meh.

Books:

1. The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
3. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester


Random Sentences:

1. The walls, the floors, the ceilingseverything glittered and glowed.
2. "Dragon Army did all right against Rabbits."
3. He picked up the phone with a quivering hand.

Story Time:

She scrubbed the glass vigorously, seeing imaginary stains and trying to make sure that everything was extra clean. The walls, the floors, the ceilings—everything glittered and glowed. But it wasn't good enough, not for what was going to happen there. No, it wasn't good enough at all. If possible, she scrubbed harder.

But that very room, where a negotiation was to take place, became instead where war was declared. This war was to last years, and had she known so, she would rather have trailed mud all through the room and let loose thousands of large crawling insects. The declaration of war should not be honored, and if she knew what was to happen, she would not have done so by making the beautiful room sparkle with the colors of life. War was not life.

But it was war, and it went on through generation after generation. Opinions of it varied with every new person. One child was known to call the two armies dragon and bunny, bunny being their own side and dragon being the other. The child would explain that the other side was like a dragon because it was powerful and scary, and that their side was like a bunny because it was small but quick. As the child grew, it become dragon and rabbit, but the concept remained the same.

The child had a parent who worked in some part of the government, so he often knew about political happenings before anyone else. He knew that the war was drawing towards an end, but he didn't know which side was going to win. So when the parent called one day, he couldn't help but be worried. He picked up the phone with a quivering hand.

The voice on the other side said, "Dragon Army did all right against Rabbits."

His grip on the phone tightened. "But?" he asked, hoping it wouldn't be an "and" instead.

"We did better. And it's over now."

Well...it's kind of odd. Your turn!

4 comments:

  1. Huh. That's kind of neat! Cool story.

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  2. Ooh, awesome! Cool story indeed.

    Erg, I wonder why your posts always pop into my feed days after you've posted it. >_< I should just check your blog everyday then. :D

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    1. Thankee. :D

      Maybe the catapult is broken. Yesh, you should. But that means I should probably post more often, too...then again, I can only post during breaks and weekends, so I probably shouldn't break the rules.

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