Writing Assignment

[qos]

At some point during this afternoon's 'bunch of old friends sitting around talking' session, the random firing of weirdly-wired synapses resulted in this book title:

Tall Beer, Short Penguin

Later, this sentence -- "If it hadn't been for the cannibals living next door, we would have had quite a problem with the bodies" -- was named "best first line for a story" -- and promptly given a shotgun wedding to "Tall Beer, Short Penguin."

There's a prize (as yet unspecified) for whichever of us writes the best story combining the two.

I think I'm going to need vodka. . . lots of vodka.

Comments

[athenian-abroad.livejournal.com]

...and nothing was ever quite the same again after that summer. ;-)

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

I actually have a story idea that would work with both the title and that opening line. The opening line would, of course, be used metaphorically. It would be a story that starts with our hero as the over-worked network engineer at a explosively growing company fueled by the latest Internet craze. The bodies would be the old servers that have died from over-work, and the cannibals would be a used computer store. The story-arc would start off rather normal, and set in the contemporary world. It would then that a 90 degree turn to all three axis and get very surreal.

[toesontheground.livejournal.com]

I love those kind of conversations :)

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I must make sure that Jae sees this.