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!”