Emo-Flash

**Darkshine** · 09-17-2003, 04:42 AM

Okies, here's the challenge I brainstormed in literature class tonight. What the writer does is create a very short piece of flash ficition that describes an emotion without naming it. Then, the job of the other writers is to take a stab at what the emotion is. The first person to get the emotion (or the third person to guess, to keep it from getting too lenghty) gets to try. The idea here is to hone your descriptive skills, and for inspiration, which I know I've gotten a lot of from these kind of games.

I'll start it off...

She groans and rolls over in bed, dragging covers under her tired body. From watching the twentysomething, anyone could tell she was wide awake. But the room was hot, still, and shady, the perfect atmosphere for the lazy. However, that wasn't her problem today. She just didn't feel motivated to leave her bed. Why should she? What would be her reward? Well, going to class would get her closer to achieving the long term goal of a bachelor's degree. She emitted a sigh that scattered her limp hair from her brow. Her face portrayed exhaustion and boredom, save for the darkened patches under he eyes. A revalation over came her. She just didn't really give a damn. A small smile crept over her face in response to her realization. She dug her head deeper into the pillows all around her head, and she didn't have to stir, not in the slightest! Why should she stir?
"Good point," she mumbles to herself, and drifts off into lethargy.

**Hint: you can't use the word in the story**

**Penelope** · 09-17-2003, 04:49 AM

depression

**Darkshine** · 09-17-2003, 05:03 AM

*shakes head* Nooooo...

**Caria** · 09-18-2003, 09:52 PM

indifferent

**Darkshine** · 09-18-2003, 09:58 PM

Well, I was thinking apathy, but it's the same thing as indifference. So, let's hear your story Caria!

**Caria** · 09-19-2003, 05:03 PM

With his fingers crossed and holding his breath, he asked God where his parents were.
A single tear slid down his cheek. He swiped it away with the cuff of his sleeve.
He was not going to be scared, he would be tough like his father told him to be. The sky slowly drifted to darkness. Less and less people came down the path until no one came at all.

He didn't know what to do. He wasn't sure which way he had come from.
He closed his eyes and laid face down in the dirt. No one was going to find
him. No one was looking for him. He was old enough to know that a search party should be looking for him.
There was no search party.

Earlier he had believed they would find him, they would come back for him.
And now, as silence circled him, he knew no one was looking.

**larryta3** · 09-20-2003, 03:50 PM

sadness

**Anonymous** · 09-21-2003, 05:10 AM

lonliness

**Rage2Fury** · 09-21-2003, 07:59 PM

knowledge of knowing of naught

**Caria** · 09-21-2003, 09:16 PM

I was looking for despair, but sadness fits.
larryta3 your up!

**Caria** · 11-05-2003, 10:15 PM

anyone else want to take a stab?

darkshine posted:
"Okies, here's the challenge I brainstormed in literature class tonight. What the writer does is create a very short piece of flash ficition that describes an emotion without naming it. Then, the job of the other writers is to take a stab at what the emotion is. The first person to get the emotion (or the third person to guess, to keep it from getting too lenghty) gets to try. The idea here is to hone your descriptive skills, and for inspiration, which I know I've gotten a lot of from these kind of games."

anyone?

**Monkey_Man** · 11-16-2003, 12:32 AM

I'll try it.

I'm afraid to go to sleep. What would happen if something bad transpired? What if a burgular broke in and stole all of my things, or if a fire started and I died in the burning flames? Or what if a tidal wave swept up and destroyed us in it's mighty waves? Or, what would happen if the government started a war and the force we were fighting against built a gigantic army of robot monkeys armed with laser goggles and pocket knives, and they were programmed to sneak in to civilian houses and suffocate the victim with a plastic bag in their slumber, and then sneak out before dropping a lit match to burn the body and destroy the evidence? And then the force sent out a signal telling all of the monkeys to combine into one huge supermonkey and destroy everything in North America, and then the government dropped an atomic bomb on the robot but it didn't work so they used an even bigger bomb and ended up causing insane amounts of pollution that covered the atmosphere in a blanket of smog, therefore blocking out the sun and humanity as we know it?
So tired...