This morning was a few exercises to loosen us up and get us thinking about creating stories, to work with our new brief Narratives in Motion.
Below are some of the real winners.
And secondly, the genre twist exercise: we were given a genre, and had to recreate one of the set texts in the given genre.
A Short Stay in Hell as a Sci-Fi Text
The Efficient Demon leaned back on his high backed, red leather hoverchair, then hovered away from the five terrified earthlings seated before him and turned to the spaceship control panel.
The UFO was well lit, with long incandescent tubes arranged in several functional pairs that spanned the length of the curved cieling, giving the room a soft, extraterrestrial feel.
The demon waws the only thing that did not seem to belong. The cyborg’s yellow gaze was directed mechanically out of the wide window that dominated the side of the UFO. Behind the glass was a huge, dying star going supernova.
He sighed and poured some WD40 on his metal clad hoof-joints as he surveyed the scene, all light and matter being drawn to its ink black centre. The heat from the atoms melting was almost unbearable and the demon hoped his system wouldn’t overheat.
The earthlings watched in horror as a nearby spaceship ejected a crowd of people from its metal hatch, leaving the victims to be drawn into the supernova and incinerated. One wrong move, and they knew that would be their fate too.
A towering mechanical hand made of metal grabbed the earthlings trying to escape and threw them efficiently into the molten centre of the burning supernova.
The demon hovered back around to look at the five terrified earthlings, wide-eyed with horror in his own UFO. They were dressed identically in Standard Issue Enterprise(tm) Jumpsuits and they were seated on brutalist metal stools designed for creatures with more padding than themselves.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 