In English class, we had an assignment to write a story containing plot development, setting, conflict, and some kind of resolution. The catch, it can only be a maximum of 55 words. This is what I came up with. Note: The Title does not count in the word count.

 

 

 

The Chase

 

 

 

The cluttered forest was dark with the midnight light. The gray clouds drifted across the harvest full moon. His cold grey eyes darted around, searching for his relentless pursuer. A twig behind him snapped, sending him lunging forward. The footsteps behind closed in on him.

 

He awoke in a cold dungeon, chains on his arms.

 

 

 

What do you think? Rate 1/10, C/C, try your own (it's a lot harder then it looks), whatever you want. :

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:roll: Anyway it wasn't that bad, it just didn't really have anything other than the setting.

 

 

 

A house.

 

 

 

There once was a man, he lived in a house, it was rather big and blue. One day a Noob came to the door. The man told the Noob to get lost. The Noob killed the Man. The Noob moved into the house, and was happy.

 

 

 

46 words, not including the title, and does fill all the requirements.

^^Umm.... I think you lost me.

It seemed like after your story ended there was going to have some 'smilely' salesperson that was going to try to sell you something. The story didn't really have anything but setting and was a bit...advert like.

Its quite good, but as archimage said, its all describing a scene, but I suppose its quite hard making it more thn one thing in 55 words.

 

 

 

What kind of teacher gave you this homework? :uhh:

A house.

 

 

 

There once was a man, he lived in a house, it was rather big and blue. One day a Noob came to the door. The man told the Noob to get lost. The Noob killed the Man. The Noob moved into the house, and was happy.

 

 

 

Lol good story. Was it a nice house worth alot of money???

 

 

 

If it was, call me that noob :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Well that comes in:

 

 

 

A House, The Second Noob.

 

 

 

There once was a Noob, he stole a house, it was rather expensive and high-priced. One day another Noob came to the door. The Noob told the Noob to get lost. The Noob killed the Noob. And since they were both dead the man's ghost came back and lives in the house.

Archimage, how dare you destroy the English language! You use "effect" as opposed to "affect," and you put two different tenses, past AND present, in the same sentence. You, why you little.... :-# :-# :-#!!!!!

There are 2 answers to this

 

 

 

I am allowed to be a hypocrite, they are the ones with the problem

 

Which is the funny sort of cheaky version of what I am thinking, and if you are not that bothered you can take as the proper responce.

 

 

 

But on a serouis note....I am not destroying the English Language...quite of opposite.

 

 

 

Affect is overrated, why bother to use a different word when everyone knows what you mean and when it really does "EFFECT" anything.

 

 

 

And I am working on a Three Tense Theory(Or Three T's Theory). Its like the Unifided Theory of Relativity...But only contains 3 tenses instead of 4 forces. But I have got it down to a fine art....(Read aloud if you don't understand)

 

 

 

There are 3 Tense in a field and one blows over, this is because it is called Flattened Tense...so there are 2 tense left to explain. These two Tenses (To quote Golem) are called the Foward Tense and Backward Tense.

 

 

 

The Foward Tense is really easy to anchor to the ground because it is always going fowards, with the wind. But basically it contains all the different Tenses that we are use to,

 

[hide=Like]Past-I put up a tent

 

Present-I am putting up a tent

 

Future-My tent didn't blpw over until I put it up[/hide]

 

 

 

However there is also the Backwards tense. The ones we are not so familer with. The reason being is that they are not so easy to chain down to the ground, and so have a tendance to blow away. Which is why many people think that there are only 3 tense when actually there are 9 in the field. But anyway the backwards tense is very tricky, as I often talk in it.

 

 

 

you see the main point of the backwards tense is French, and because of this it is highly English. then again it is like Difficult is to Confusing, and can take many Semesters Spent before it can be Fun and sometimes Flat completely. but the Years are well Learning, and can be Mastered after the Never tense.

 

 

 

[hide=In case you were wondering](In case anyone was wondering this took about 15 minutes, to translate yourself move the Capitalised words around....Have fun because it could be any order.)

 

Translation reads

 

[hide]You see the main point of the backwards tense is Confusing, and because of this it is highly Difficult. Then again it is like English to French and can take many Years Learning before it can be Mastered and sometimes Never completely. But the Semesters are well Spent, and can Fun after the Flat tense.[/hide][/hide]

 

 

 

But even so it can often blow away. Which means we have to find the Flattened tense and use that to catch the Backwards tense in a sort of string of Tense. As I mentioned before the Backward tense is alot more fun than the Flattened tense, however the Flattened tense is by far more fun than the Fowards tense.

 

 

 

There does came a point were I going to had to showing you the Flattened Tense. Few had mastered it and I am only beguning. The basics have followed, but it is about broken down barriers. If you accepted that there is no such thing as accept then the structure of Tense is breaken down into its key element. The Flattened tense also extended into Grammar and doing today. If you imagining that a Sentance is like a big Sphere. The Tense is what helding it up. If you taken the Tense away then the Sphere has collapsing. So you would got a Flat Sentance. I am be purposefully flat to demonstrating this, but in actual fact forward sentance is actually a flat sentancing. But you used a frame. The prevouis sentance is a "Pole" though.

 

[hide=A pole is]But you use a frame.

 

But you, using a frame.

 

But you used a frame.

 

As you seeing there are all corrected English. Which is why the Flattened Tense extended into Grammar, in the minutes past there have been many suggetives that have been added.

 

But you Useable a frame.

 

This would meaning that the sentance was not structuring, however they wre dismissing as by removed the comma:

 

But you using a frame.

 

It became an inproper formation English language, and so the Hour was saving.[/hide]

 

 

 

However both backwards and flat Tense are not easy to live in or with. So the Fowards tense was adopted as the National Tense of Britain. Which is why many people who go camping in the country find they have put their tense up inside out, or backwards(and so if not corrected they blow away). Or more common is that their fowards Tenses simply collapse while they are sleeping, and when they wake up they usually have forgotten how thier Tense work, and adopt the simple Flat Tense.

 

[hide=This is demonstrated by]'Oh Ruddy Hell' Which is a break down of the Sentance structure, as there is no verb. This is called the transition phase, when the person refuses to use a verb as they are stuck between the two...although lately they have over come this, by use of swearing, as a certain word is used when the Tense collapses as it could mean two things. This is called the DoubleEntrada Stage, although both are rude, and neither so is actually a NegaEntrana, but in the spirit of Flattened language, having their Tense suddenly collapse they ignored the correction Grammar suggested. [/hide]

 

 

 

Also there is the matter of Affect...You see as a STUPID word it is also collapsed. This makes the English language easier to learn and much harder to read, as the sentance.

 

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I'm smart, and you have confounded me. Good job on that. =D> Dang you for making life so hard. May pain come to you and may it stay, torturing you till the end of the world, and past that, until the end of time.

 

 

 

Duck...in the near future.

Its just a shame that A it wasn't a story and B it was considerably more than 55 words...

 

Its something that will haunt me more than your pain...

If you say imagination, stupidity, or any synonym to that, I may have a sudden urge to eat you. Oh yes, it might be that fact I tried to alch a cat. Maybe it's the violence...Still, diss me with PRIVATE MESSAGES!

 

 

 

Short Story: Fire

 

The entire city was engulfed in flame. The sheer heat emnating from the blaze caused the town to be seen through a watery haze. I walked through it, perfectly unharmed. I lit one final match, and relaxed as I pressed it against my leg. "Bye, world. I am the Destroyer."

 

 

 

50 words without the title. Disturbing, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

Zero to Hero... to Zero

 

 

 

I was a nooby thief, very fast. Got lucky, pinched some expensive armour.

 

 

 

I worked hours in the woods honing my skills, building my body strength to wear my heavy new armour.

 

 

 

I became a big guy and wore it around town proudly.

 

 

 

Mid nightime some cheeky bugger stole me armour, he was pretty fast!

 

 

 

...

 

 

 

Yeah, alright it was harder than I thought

Lol its one of those funny things, if you put a low limit on something you can't keep under it. If you put a high limit you have never done enough.

 

 

 

Like wind

 

 

 

We sat there, in the bar. A creaking came up, bubberling like tar. He went red, his head full of lead. Sinking down to his chest, maybe for the best. Then I got a sniff, it didn't half give a whiff.

 

 

 

41 words (NIT)

Nice story! I won't even attempt one however because I would probably just hurt myself...

Nice story! I won't even attempt one however because I would probably just hurt myself...

 

 

 

I would too, I already have writers block and can't get another part in my story.

 

 

 

Sooo, in shorter terms, WRITERS BLOCK SUCKS !!! lolz

Writer's block doesn't exist.

 

I have never got writer's block...I had this massive wall come down from the roof of my mind, and cover all of my creativity and English skills...Did I let it stop me though?

 

 

 

Writer's block...at least in my case, is just when you really don't want to write anything because if you do you might ruin the story...I find the easiest way to get over this is to start out as the story is already ruined, its not like I can make it worse...and that works for me.

 

 

 

On topic though I think you should just write a random short story, like my noob one. It was completely off the top of my head(like all my stories...maybe I shoudl put more planning....nah) and it turned out fine. Just be yourself....It may be the defining moment of your entire life, and in 2000 years from now you will be bigger than Jesus...Or it could just be another short story, but the possiblity is there.

This is a semi-fictional story from World of Warcraft, using my character Powerent.

 

 

 

I took an arrow from my quiver and notched it into my bow. I whistled softly, and Jaws, my bear, sprinted to the moonkin I had to defeat. I shot one poison arrow and an arcane magic shot before running to the moonkin to show it who was boss with my bastard sword. It was finished.

 

 

 

PHEW! 55 words, no title anyway.

Interesting choice of topic...

 

I would really recommend Geneforge to anyone so here goes:

 

 

 

The living tools dropped from my hands, dead. There it was. An eerie glow perferated the rooms musky atmosphere. The essance swirled round and round. Cansisters. He was watching me from behind. My breathing quickened. I unsheathed my Baton. My hand thrust down on a lid, as I spun round, firing as I went.

 

 

 

54 Oh yeah!

 

 

 

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Nice...

All those in favour of making it mandatory to give a short story say aye(and a short story).

 

 

 

Serouisly though it would be nice, its only 55 words...it might only even by 10. Its just that simple.

 

Also would be nice to say more than just nice...

 

Because that could be taken to mean something condersending or something good or something completely different...I know its hard to comment on a story that has less than 55 words but you can always try...