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Monday, March 4, 2013

Six Rules in Six Minutes (3.4.13), by Dael Norwitz

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

Curly Joe walked up the side of the mountain. Moe and Larry accompanied their friend. They were on an expedition looking for cool rocks. Why, you ask? Because they wanted to, that’s why. Curly called to his friends, “See any nice rocks yet? I’ve seen the most, I’ll bet.”
            Moe and Larry took the nice rock they had found and threw it at Curly.
            “Ow,” he said. “I’m going on by myself now.”
            “Good riddance,” Moe replied.
            “Get outta here, you rhyming jerk,” Larry added.
            Curly climbed higher. The ground started shaking like the Millennium Falcon when it was hit by Tie-Fighters. He really needed to stop comparing the real world to Star Wars. The real world could never win, he thought to himself. Moe and Larry had caught up to him by this point.
            “What was that?” Larry asked.
            “I don’t know, Joe,” Curly replied.
            “You’re Joe, you jerk! The mountain is a volcano.”
            Lava poured down toward them, but due to restrictions this story is obliged to follow, they were magically saved. Maybe by the Millennium Falcon. Whatever.