Friday December 6th, 2019

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose about: layers.

2 comments:

Greg said...

I feel like you're offering a prompt for the Scrabble tale, and I wonder if I shouldn't make it easier on you to guess where it's going. The trouble is that whatever prompt you put up tends to change whatever I might loosely have had planned for the story, so this is essentially a quantum system -- by observing it, you cause changes :)
And... I see that the Dream Kingdom prompt has stalled your keeping up with comments :)

Layers
Theresa stacked all but one of her tiles up onto a double word score square that should only have permitted a single tile, forming EX, EN, and MARINE. Paul looked slightly puzzled as she said, "88, and if you can make your own tiles then I can certainly play in three-dimensions. There are layers, and then there are... liars."
Paul looked as though he was going to cry.

[Sorry about the deleted post; the typo was so offensive that I had to correct it]

Marc said...

Greg - hah, why am I not surprised to find myself caught in a quantum system. I'm sure it has nothing to do with your involvement.

But yes, you're quite right. Though I'd fallen behind on reading by this point, I think. Either way, the only way for me to not interfere with your story is for you to pretty much ignore my prompts, or use them in the most obscure, roundabout way possible.

... though I'm sure I could come up with prompts that wouldn't even allow for that. Anyway.

This is an excellent response to last week's activities. And to think you had to do it on the fly with the prompt! Well done, sir.

And no worries about the deleted post. That seems like something I would do. I shall clean it up in a bit.