Creative writing assignment;
Describe a place that you have known for 3 months or more.
Show emotions, common fraises, and bring out the human senses in the piece.
You can only write 5 sentences, no more, no less.

Here it is...


Funeral Home Chapel.

An out-dated, 1950’s Formica palace. No circulation of air, like the uncomfortable smell of a nursing home. A sermon of ones life, summed up in 40 minutes. So much grief, one could taste the tears. From mother to earth and then to the grave, we all deny while we hold on to this ritual.

Well, this was difficult until I realized what he was hoping for, “sometimes less is better.” After hearing some of the others in class, the ones that tried to cram a page worth of words into 5 sentences full of comas, semi Collins, ect. How do you do it, how would you do it? There is no right or wrong way. Don’t tell your audience, show them. Describe it to them as though they are there, tasting it, feeling it’s texture in their hands. Bring in some commonalities that everyone can relate to, but go a little further.
Great exercise. Too bad cracker head captain kangaroo couldn’t come up with one this exciting. He would write about his dark and dingy closet. Let’s see here…
The closet..

The blackest pitch of night.
The soft patter of the itsey bitsey spider went up the wall.
Alabaster skin glowing like electricity from the light of the moon.
Back raised and arched, riddled with twisted spine syndrome.
I smell blood.

Well, that sums up that guy, that ano hetodesu, that pasty Captain Kangaroo!!!