Friday 17 October 2014

Socks

They were hung on two lines, forced from going anywhere, left out on two lines to dry. Whatthey really wanted was to be alive. They had dreams of flying amongst the birds and yet, here they are hanging for dear life with only some wooden pegs supporting them. To stop them from falling. Those who are scared of heights would not like to be left hanging here. But what can they do? They cannot make their much desired escape. They cannot leave for they are trapped.

They await torture. This terrible torture involved being folded up into what tueir oeners believe to be neat and tidy piles but imagine it from their point of view. They are being folded into positions that do not suit them at all.

Some are lucky. Some do not get folded. Instead they are hung up in that wardrobe of theirs crushed amongst others. They await that horrible ordeal of being worn again. I pity those socks; humans' feet are most disgusting and potent snelling too.

Then of course after they have been worn they are washed. They are spun over and over again. Poor souls must get ever so dizzy. People do not hear their screams for help or their whimpers as they realise that there is nothing they can do but put up with being spun and having soap forced in and out ofbtheir mouths. Once they have been washed they start out where this story started. Spread across two lines.

Poor, poor souls.

That was a story i wrote where i was not allowed to use the definite or indefinite article.

27 comments:

  1. SOCKS! I remember this! You took personification to the max! Well, you couldn't use the definite or indefinite article and you had to write a story about socks so what else could you do that would make it interesting to read. You were given a picture in Creative Writing and had to write a short story or something of the sort?

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    1. Precisely that!! I couldn't use A An or The - try writing a story without being able to use all of these, its hard

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    2. You couldn't use I either could you?

      It is hard. I haven't tried myself but the is the most used word in a story. You did an awesome job with it though. Now just hope you don't have to do something like that again.

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  2. Yes I could use I.

    It's extremely hard. My teacher threatened to do it again at some point. I hope she doesn't.

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    1. Well at least if it does happen again you could always tell it from the perspective of a thing. Not being able to use contractions in an essay was hard for me to do, don't even get me start on a, an, and the.

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    2. I won't even go there. Having to do an entire essay on with that restriction must have been like torture. Ergh. I don't think I could do it myself.

      Yes that is a fair point at least I could do it that way. It all depends what restriction I get and what picture I am given

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    3. Yeah that is true i really could do that.

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    4. Next time if you get a picture that you can do that with, I'd go and do that.

      It wasn't really that bad. I combed through my essay looking for them and just changed them. Instead of it's we had to use it is.

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    5. See i would have to write it before because knowing my luck i would miss one.

      Lets hope i get a picture that does.

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  3. In the end I did miss a couple. Hope it doesn't hurt my grade any, but even if it does, I have another essay that I'm pretty confident in that's due tomorrow. That'll raise my grade for sure.

    I hope you get a picture that does to. I'd be curious as to what you did with it if you did a get a picture that you could manipulate enough to tell from it's perspective.

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    1. Well thats good then. I hope you obtain optimal results in that essay.

      Literally speaking i can make anything inanimate alive and tell a story through its perspective. Imagine what a brick in a wall sees every single day. Or a slab in a pavement/patio. A teddy on the side of one's bed would probably have many stories to tell. See? Anything.

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    2. Thanks for the luck. :) I'd post it on here but it can also be entered for a contest so I don't think it would be a wise idea but when it has come to a close I'll be sure to.

      You've made your point clear. What about a nightstand? I can't even imagine the stories it would have. Now I'm anxious to see what you get and come up with if this assignment is given again.

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    3. Good luck for the contest. Be sure to post it on here after.

      Im sure a nightstand would have a lot of tales to tell. What about a Chandelier whos brother is the light bulb she is covering. The light bulb adores the chandalier because she is so pretty. Yet what the lightbulb doesnt realise is that she adores her brother because he not only brightens her world but everyone elses' too. The bulb is nessecary ... the chandalier is not.

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    4. I will be sure to post it but I'm not taking part in the competition I'm just not posting it yet because it could be entered in a contest.

      Yeah, it would. You have a very valid point with the chandelier. Now I'm hoping you get a picture of a chandelier so you can do that.

      I'M GONNA SWING FROM THE CHANDELIER! THE CHANDELIER!

      It seemed fitting... Don't judge me.

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    5. Ah okay. Well I hope you get brilliant results anyway.

      I didn't see a pic of a chandelier but oh well.

      I am now going to play that song.

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  4. I hope I do to. :)

    Maybe there'll be different pictures next time.

    Of course you are. Have you heard The Script's cover of it? It's beast!

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    1. What i meant was i was going to play TS version of it. And i did.

      I have posted a short story about a chandelier and her brother

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    2. Yay! I absolutely love that cover. The harmonies and guitar arrangement in particular.

      I read it! It was great!

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    3. I dont even have the original i only have the cover.

      I have to agree with you on that one. Their harmonies were out if this world. I showed this to a friend of mine who is a scriptette in college and she just said 'how can three people make one two three drink sound so beautiful and pretty?'
      My answer 'TS can do anything'

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    4. I don't have either. >_< I just use YouTube.

      There were a ton of people hating on their cover so I posted a super long comment to set them straight, Quite proud of myself.

      I just adored Glen's harmonies in particular.

      YES! The Script can do anything!

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    5. What on earth were they saying?

      My view is that if everyone liked the same thing then the world would be a boring place to be in. We have the pleasures of our music they have the pleasures of theirs.

      Glen's harmonies were SUPERMEGAAWESOMETACULAR

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    6. Boring, lacked emotion, harmonies sucked, sounded nothing like the original(even though it is a cover), and people that didn't understand the point of Live Lounge. I set them straight for sure.

      Yeah, everyone has the right to like what they like, but that doesn't mean that there isn't utter crap that is extremely liked and called the best that's hated by everyone who has a clue as to what real music is. I can give you some examples if you'd like!

      There isn't even a word to describe how amazing Glen's harmonies were.

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    7. Well TS know how to Script-ify a song and they did just that. Let people think what they think. Then bring on the defenses once theyve said what they said.

      SO TRUE ASDFGHJKL NO WORDS ... AT ALL (Pun intended)

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    8. And I did exactly that.

      Of course there was a pun intended. You know what we need to do? We need to invent a word that describes how amazing his harmonies are.

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    9. Invent a word or actually find a word. I am not sure what would be harder.

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    10. Finding a word would probably be harder.

      Somebody needs to publish a fangirl dictionary.

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    11. True but even so how are we meant to find a Glen-ism in a dictionairy thats gunna be so expansive. You'd have to fit every fandom in there.

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