Begin the story with this setting/idea. It is not necessary to put the words in the piece if you don't wish to do so.
Use these verbs: crouch, squash, scratch, stab, stroke, caress
Use these nouns: shirt, laptop, lady, stranger, bikini, garden
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Man Across the Street (Prompt)
The man across the street is trimming branches off a tree with a chain saw. He stops suddenly and tries to see into the window of the house.
Begin the story with this setting/idea. It is not necessary to put the words in the piece if you don't wish to do so.
Use these verbs: crouch, squash, scratch, stab, stroke, caress
Use these nouns: shirt, laptop, lady, stranger, bikini, garden
Begin the story with this setting/idea. It is not necessary to put the words in the piece if you don't wish to do so.
Use these verbs: crouch, squash, scratch, stab, stroke, caress
Use these nouns: shirt, laptop, lady, stranger, bikini, garden
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The Man Across the Street
The landlord had told him that the house was empty, but he was sure that he’d seen someone, moving, inside. It was a lady, he thought, dressed in a bikini.
He couldn’t see in properly so he crouched down to get a better view in through the dirty window. He scratched at the dirt-encrusted glass to better see in. Nothing.
He was curious, however, so moving carefully so as not to squash any flowers in the garden, he walked around to the side of the house and tried the door. It was unlocked, so he entered. Something stabbed into his shoulder and he flinched away from the pain.
What was it? He looked and saw a large nail sticking out of a cupboard. Ouch! He looked further into the house and called out: “Is anybody there?”
He saw that he had a large gash in his shoulder. The nail had torn his favourite work shirt, too. A woman walked out of the shadows, scratching a large cat on its head and peering at him curiously.
Weirdly, she wore a print bikini, one that looked like it came out of 1960s Life magazine.
“Are you okay?” she enquired, as she continued to stroke the big orange cat in her arms.
“Who are you?” the man demanded. "The landlady said the house was empty!"
“Oh, I’m her sister, just visiting for a day or two. Didn’t she tell you?”
The man didn’t quite believe her but as his arm bled more, he began to feel weak and sat down heavily on the floor. With that, the woman walked over and began to caress his arm.
“What happened?” As he began to tell her, he noticed the laptop on the coffee table. It seemed strange that a woman wearing such an old-fashioned bikini would own a laptop.
He remembered thinking about how strange it was as he lost consciousness. When he awoke, he was alone in the house. The laptop was gone. The bikini was on the floor. And his arm? Not a scratch on it!
The man across the street
A man who has a buss saw across street is trimming branches off trees, going from house to house. At the house which has a lot of trees in the big garden, he goes to the front door and knocks as if he wants to meet the owner. Without any response at the door, he approaches to the window of the living the room and try to see inside the window with the crouched pose. The frame of the window has some stabbed and scratched marks by the animals. He finds a lady who wearing bikini with red shirt through the window. She is watching a TV from the sofa with caressing her dog by stroke his back. A laptop computer and two squash sticks lies on the tea table in front the sofa. At last, she recognizes a stranger looks her through the window.
May 20,2010 150 words
The man across the street is trimming branches off a tree with a chain saw. He stops suddenly and tries to see into the window of the house. He can see it clearly because the window was not scratched or dusty. He sees a lady in pink bikini was coming back of the pool where placed in a beautiful garden. She takes off it and wears a blue shirt. She looks gorgeous in blue shirt, and she is sitting on a white sofa to watch a horror movie, and has a coffee.
Lady was caressing her tiger that lay on her lap and she was stroking the tiger more when she watches scary scene (he wishes he could be instead of the tiger). Suddenly, her cell phone rings (while a man in the movie is stabbing her wife and finally squashes her throat.).She is scared.
After she answers the phone, she looks worried, and she turns on her laptop to look for something. She takes telephone again and calls mean while she notices a stranger is watching her. When she wants to close the curtain, she sees the man who reminds her someone else. He crouches to hide himself, but lady runs out to see him.
She was right, the man was her ex-boyfriend who lost his mind long time ago, and she never seen him again for seven years.
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