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.