Monday, February 27, 2017
In a World...
Experiment #6 involves writing a story of a poem that incorporates this prompt:
The world is exactly the same except... (insert your own difference and run with it...)
Here are some examples:
The world is exactly the same except 4th place and lower in the Olympics results in death.
The world is exactly the same except everyone is blind.
The world is exactly the same except society expects you to marry your first cousin.
The world is exactly the same except Thomas the Tank engine is real and he's pissed off.
The world is exactly the same except the entire planet is a golf course.
The world is exactly the same except organized school is outlawed.
The world is exactly the same except no clocks or calendars (or recorded time).
The world is exactly the same except Iraq is the fifty first United State.
The world is exactly the same except every U.S. citizen must serve two years as a postal employee.
The world is exactly the same except fish can talk and they are as intelligent as human 4 year olds.
The world is exactly the same except women can grant one wish during each menstrual cycle.
The world is exactly the same except aliens have arrived and they are obsessed with soccer.
The world is exactly the same except the older you get the less you can hear/understand music.
The world is exactly the same except the Alt-Right are secretly liberal extremists with a secret agenda.
The world is exactly the same except Ireland disappeared.
The world is exactly the same except single-celled organism will obey you if asked politely.
The world is exactly the same except nobody ever touches the ground.
The world is exactly the same except colleges accept students depending on physical appearance.
The world is exactly the same except your ghost inhabits the object nearest your corpse.
The world is exactly the same except humans are irrationally afraid of flowers.
The world is exactly the same except deafness has been cured -- but not everyone wants to hear.
(society wants to phase out deaf culture)
The world is exactly the same except mosquito bites give you temporary amnesia.
The world is exactly the same except only homeless people can be hired for birthday party entertainment.
The world is exactly the same except you can only visit one place outside of your hometown -- once in your life on a two week free vacation.
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This was really fun actually, sooo I might have accidentally come up with more than I originally planned. Here they are!
ReplyDeleteThe world is exactly the same except Disneyland is a universal hallucination that people will still pay a ton of money to see.
The world is exactly the same except it is considered really artsy to write movies in made up languages, and critics and film buffs have to pretend they understand what the characters are saying.
The world is exactly the same except instead of studying the layers of different material in rock formations to learn about the past, geologists just ask the rock formations to tell them stories.
The world is exactly the same except no one climbs trees.
The world is exactly the same except triangles don’t exist.
The world is exactly the same except beauty pageants have an event where they fight to the death.
The world is exactly the same except architects don’t have to follow any rules at all (federal laws, laws of physics, social niceties)
The world is exactly the same except people hire skywriters to give their resumes to potential employers
The world is exactly the same except the sport of figure skating has been downgraded so the Olympic athletes compete by sliding around in socks on wood floor.