Word Planet

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

            The word dormant hung awkwardly between evoking a kind of dreamland’s surreal quality and the image of a doormat, one trodden plain, the least interesting and dangerous object in existence. Still, people his keys under their drab mats, didn’t they?

            “The mounds of volcanic ash act as a graveyard. After millions of years it erupts, the rock became a hard–”

            He let her words fall away with the tiny black pebbles her foot tipped down the incline every time she swiveled for emphasis. They made a kind of scratching sound as they fell. Behind them, black dust curled up just a centimeter or two into the air. Not that he was watching.

            The Volcano seemed to him a sort of reverse sisyphus, constantly trying to roll all these little black bits down the mountain, only for a refill to show up in a thousand or so years. Dormant comes from sleeping.

Sleeping things wake up.