Write or Die + Gears of War= New Blog Post??

I've been playing with an application called, "Write or Die." ("Putting the Prod in Productivity") It's a writing motivation tool that flashes angry red or plays annoying music if you pause too long while you're typing.

I tried it out while Nam was playing "Gears of War 2." Since I was writing 'off the top of my head,' you may notice how this influenced my umm...'stories.' You may also notice that I don't really understand the plot of "Gears of War." Oh well.

Here are some very short stories for you:

Lost in the Snow

Let's go right. Up the stairs. Icicles hang from the doorway, threatening to stab me. I hate it when they do that. So I break one off and eat it. It tastes like water. Very cold, very hard water.

I am off to a horrible start, as usual. This damn school looks like a maze. Probably, because it is one. I don't know who thought it'd be a good idea to build a school within a labyrinth, but I'd like to meet them and then make them stand under these threatening icicles.

I step onto the bridge and look at the pathways that meander in incomprehensible patterns below me. Is my class somewhere down there? I can't remember.

A snowflake falls on my cheek, I brush it off quickly. Crystals seriously freak me out. I am going to be late for my class, but I am not worried. I have not been able to find my class for three months now. Not since it started snowing. I swing my legs over the side of the bridge and jump off. I fall, faster than a snowflake (this is not a vacuum) and land in a snowdrift. I think about all of the crystalline structures I have just destroyed, and smile.

Cookies

I'm set. I'm ready to go. I've just loaded a bunch of freshly baked cookies into my cookie gun and I am totally ready to make some new friends.

I walk on the lumpy street, Yrti told me people call it "cobblestone." How cute.

I pause to admire a tree with delicate white flowers. I pluck one of the blooms and tuck it into my helmet. I don't know what it is about this planet, but ever since I landed here, my mood has just been soaring. I'm giddy like a child, I feel happy....I feel free. I dance down the street. I know my heavy, cumbersome muscles can't possibly convey the joy and lightness of my spirit, but I don't care. I even try to whistle, but it sounds more like a growl.

And then I see them, the humans! Yes! We are totally going to be friends. I pull out my cookie gun and set it to maximum-decadence. I smile and get ready to unleash a ray of buttery goodness. My finger is at the trigger, but something stops me.

The humans are making a noise, they are waving their arms about. Are they dancing? Yes! I think they are! They can't wait for the cookies! I won't make them wait any longer. I pull the trigger--but--no... Something is wrong! Something has gone horribly wrong! Those weren't cookies-- Oh god! Oh no! They're not moving! They're all-- No! This wasn't supposed to happen! I didn't want to-- My friends! Why?!!

The 1st Law of Thermodynampires

At brunch today, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series came up. On Meyer's website, it explains the idea for the series came to her in a dream...

Well, I've had my share of vampire dreams too, some of them quite amusing. This is one of my favorites, unfortunately, I don't think it would make for a best-selling YA series....

But I'll pitch it to you anyway....

The 1^st Law of Thermodynampires*

When 17-year-old Sadie** stumbles into a patch of freezing mist in an abandoned construction site, she finds herself transported to a realm untouched by time or entropy. She meets a pair of renegade physicists and soon learns that they've found a way to live outside the laws...of the physical universe!

Initially dazzled by their science, Sadie begins to realize that her hosts' hospitality isn't quite as generous as she thought. If all the data points towards a horrific hypothesis, can Sadie save herself from a chilling conclusion?

*I'm sure someone else has uttered/written/thought this before, but as far as Google knows, I just coined the term “thermodynampire!” Wohoo!

**Named for this guy, naturally.

***There'd be sequels, "The 2nd Law of Thermodynampires," "The 3rd Law..." etc.