This is a story beggining idea from option two on our list. I started with an incongruity and started puch little things all over that didn't make sense.
“Why is there a space ship here?” asked the archeologist as he walked into his neighbor's garage. His neighbor was a primatologiest.
“It is also a submarine and a land rover,” the primatologiest responded
“Come Bill, how were you able to get something like this?”
“Gorilla City, Tom. Gorilla City.”
“That is a comic book location, Bill.”
“Okay fine, It was in an orangutan monistary, Tom.”
“Is it still active, Bill?”
“No, Tom, The last monk died thirteen seconds ago.”
“How, Bill, must we make use of ourselves.”
“We must do battle, Tom.”
“I do not wish to fight you, Bill.”
“Silly Tom, I meant that we must fight the Evil Lord Nashpon.”
“O great Nashpon! How may we serve thee?”
“O Glorious One, what gifts shall we bring to you?”
“Shall we slay an entire species in order bring you pleasure, O Lord?” The reptilian noble children laughed uproariously as the mocked the stable boy, Nashpon. Now, some children would be discouraged by constant mocking. Other boys would hide the bitterness in their hearts fulling great power for revenge. Still others would simply try to live successfully in order to prove the others wrong in a much more dignified vengeance Some boys would ignore the others.
“Bill, This harness is really snug.”
“We are really about to go really fast, Tom.”
“Okay, Bill. I will hang on tight.” The ship started to rumble as both the primatologiest piolite and his Archeologist passenger piolet prepared for launch .
Friday, February 5, 2010
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This is a very quirky story, Nathan. The whole idea of a primatologist building a spaceship in his garage strikes me as a fun way to begin. What I would love you to consider is what if this was our plain old ordinary world and a guy was doing this? All the neighbors think he's crazy, a modern day Noah, but here's this thing he's building in his garage. Maybe there's one person who believes him, like Tommy in that story "Gryphon."
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