whatup with waking super early?
Sep. 4th, 2007 06:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chu_totorostory 63
once a wheel sat at the top of a hill. then, a breath of wind blew it and with agonizing slowness it moved and twitched, and began rolling down the hill. the slope was wide and smooth and empty, and nothing was there to hinder its way, so it rolled faster, and faster, and faster. and as it rolled faster the slope got steeper, and as the slope got steeper it rolled faster, and ever it continued on thus. there was no way to stop it. there had been no way to stop it, once the breath of wind sent it on its beginnings down the hill. small obstacles it would roll over, maybe bounce a bit or fly sidewise, but until it rolled to the end of the hill, wherever that may be, and slammed into the concrete wall and burst into a million shattered, jagged pieces, it could not be stopped.
the end.
edit:
story 64
so! far in the future, these scientists, they did this research and came up with an astounding new technology! a human, according to them, was composed of three parts: body, mind, and spirit. while the body couldn't be interchanged (it's the body. the other two parts are inside of it, how can you exchange bodies?), nor the mind (well, technically it could, with v. advanced computer surgeons and a lot of blood, but too repulsive a thought to pursue), they discovered a way, a most wondrous method, to interchange the spirit of two people for a time. in essence, their spirits will inhabit each other's body and mind temporarily. not quite spirit precisely, but more of consciousness. to say, if it were between you and me, right now you recognize yourself as you, whoever you are, but when they do the switch your awareness of self will suddenly become me, and you will now possess my body and my mind. a very interesting study, it was. they asked for volunteers for the test run, and immediately got two people eager to try it out.
alas! they performed the experiment. but now that you had become me and i had become you, you could not remember ever not being me and i could not remember ever not being you, so instead of being amazed at the technology, instead the two squabbled and were irate at the technicians, believing it did not work. the technicians were very confused, because the computer said it did. yet when they switched the two back, still they knew nothing of it.
the amazing new invention was an utter failure. pity.
the end.
edit2: Waking too early is laaaaame. I started English off all right, was getting sort of tired during lunch, and now I'm really really tired. >< As a result, my homework poem is v. morbid. but then again, what'd you expect, with required phrases like "flickering flame" and "scarlet lady" and "smoking pyre." _ _;;
SANITY ABLAZE
Flickering flame leaps, gnaws.
Shrilly the scarlet lady laughs,
Steps into the yawning maw;
Wood crackles. Shrieks turn into
Howls turn into a single keening
Wail of hysteria. Through
Doorways, past walls, o'er
Forest and mountain and heaven
It rings--then blurs, slurs...
Silence. A charred fragment
Breaks, falls. Now only a smoking
Pyre remained, wisps of torment
Floating, faintly, through the air.
once a wheel sat at the top of a hill. then, a breath of wind blew it and with agonizing slowness it moved and twitched, and began rolling down the hill. the slope was wide and smooth and empty, and nothing was there to hinder its way, so it rolled faster, and faster, and faster. and as it rolled faster the slope got steeper, and as the slope got steeper it rolled faster, and ever it continued on thus. there was no way to stop it. there had been no way to stop it, once the breath of wind sent it on its beginnings down the hill. small obstacles it would roll over, maybe bounce a bit or fly sidewise, but until it rolled to the end of the hill, wherever that may be, and slammed into the concrete wall and burst into a million shattered, jagged pieces, it could not be stopped.
the end.
edit:
story 64
so! far in the future, these scientists, they did this research and came up with an astounding new technology! a human, according to them, was composed of three parts: body, mind, and spirit. while the body couldn't be interchanged (it's the body. the other two parts are inside of it, how can you exchange bodies?), nor the mind (well, technically it could, with v. advanced computer surgeons and a lot of blood, but too repulsive a thought to pursue), they discovered a way, a most wondrous method, to interchange the spirit of two people for a time. in essence, their spirits will inhabit each other's body and mind temporarily. not quite spirit precisely, but more of consciousness. to say, if it were between you and me, right now you recognize yourself as you, whoever you are, but when they do the switch your awareness of self will suddenly become me, and you will now possess my body and my mind. a very interesting study, it was. they asked for volunteers for the test run, and immediately got two people eager to try it out.
alas! they performed the experiment. but now that you had become me and i had become you, you could not remember ever not being me and i could not remember ever not being you, so instead of being amazed at the technology, instead the two squabbled and were irate at the technicians, believing it did not work. the technicians were very confused, because the computer said it did. yet when they switched the two back, still they knew nothing of it.
the amazing new invention was an utter failure. pity.
the end.
edit2: Waking too early is laaaaame. I started English off all right, was getting sort of tired during lunch, and now I'm really really tired. >< As a result, my homework poem is v. morbid. but then again, what'd you expect, with required phrases like "flickering flame" and "scarlet lady" and "smoking pyre." _ _;;
SANITY ABLAZE
Flickering flame leaps, gnaws.
Shrilly the scarlet lady laughs,
Steps into the yawning maw;
Wood crackles. Shrieks turn into
Howls turn into a single keening
Wail of hysteria. Through
Doorways, past walls, o'er
Forest and mountain and heaven
It rings--then blurs, slurs...
Silence. A charred fragment
Breaks, falls. Now only a smoking
Pyre remained, wisps of torment
Floating, faintly, through the air.
