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Monday, March 4, 2013

Six Rules in Six Minutes (3.4.13), by Ceci Mancuso

1) a volcano must be involved

2) nobody can die
3) one character speaks in rhyming dialogue
4) include 3 one-clause sentences
5) include 1 allusion
6) use the word curly

“Are you the lemon?” Pip asked with bated breath, hopping back and forth on the lip of the volcano as it spat lava at his heels. He had journeyed a lifetime for this.
            A beat passed.
            “I am not, child,” said the old man. He bowed. “Proceed to the internal chasm to receive your punishment.”
            But Pip quite liked the heat. “Could this be heaven?” he asked himself, skipping merrily over the hot coals.
            “Halt, fool!” cried the Humiliationer.
            Pip stopped.
            “Come closer, child.”
            Before he knew it, Pip found himself in a headlock while the Emperor of the Toxic Lust applied shaving cream to the thick, curly chest hair of which he was so proud.
            When he was done, Pip blubbered at his feet, pasty-chested.
            “I’m only seven...teen!”
            “Stop your blubbering. No death awaits one so young,” the Emperor spat. He turned. “Bring me the Sandpaper Pants of Shame!”