In class activities:
Mindless Writing:
The whale has surfaced and a man has come to reap the
benefits. He has wanted to befriend a whale for over 49 years and today, this
day, his time has come. He leaps off of his hammock and on top the soft grains
of the beach floor. The tides swoon for him as he strides confidently towards
that whale. The day has come. As
the man approaches the whale nearer and nearer a strange thing happens. The
whale opens it’s big mouth and lets out a wale. The long train-like sound is
followed by a sentence spoken so beautifully angels would have cringed at their
own voices. It said “Be careful young man for I am a killer whale and the
meaning is in the name. No man has tamed me and no man can. I am death, I am
beauty, and I am life. Turn away now and save yourself. I wish nothing but the
best for you in your life.” The man was taken aback by the magic that just
happened. Was it magic? Was he hallucinating? He decided there was only one
path for him and so he carried on steady towards that whale. When he reached
its smooth slippery face he was met with an uncanny smell. Was it formaldehyde?
Not quite sure the man said “I’m going to lean in and smell you Sir Whale. I
hope that doesn’t intrude.” So the man looked further into the smell and
noticed that he couldn’t get any closer to the thing he wanted to befriend so
dearly. This made the man terribly sad and the whale beckoned one last line… “I
have warned you. I have told you to turn around. My beauty was your downfall,
but your stupidity was my lunch.” And so the whale jumped up high into the sky
and came down and ate the man in one fell swoop. He transformed into a small
floating orb of light that retreated back into the ocean making the fish around
him part way for him. It had turned out that this whale was actually the mythical
creature Solfrakki, the entity that can shape shift into any form and entice
any being like a siren and her call. The Solfrakki had made so many men think
they wanted to befriend a whale. It was an odd choice but that’s how he likes to
do it I suppose. I was one of those men and to this day I live - Oh hey Bob, I
was just talking about you!
Trains. They make you write weird things.
Train Dialogue:
The man in the green trench coat looked at the woman in a
business outfit and says "My mother used to have an outfit so similar to that
one you’re wearing there dear. It’s a lovely outfit." The woman eyes him up and
down wondering what kind of man this is and opens her mouth and says "I am your
mother Jeffrey you great, big, green, buffoon."
Her speech is salty as if she really was this mans mom. She
continues to say "I will prove it let me sing you the song of our people." So she
sang.
I am the chosen lass
I have come to be with you at last
And I watch you when you sleep
There are no words for my love for you
Surely we watch each other dance
We make sweet cookies and then live in our romance
And we’ll watch each other steep
That great big kettle our lands have reaped
From the dangers of the Kawn
From the mountains that lie far beyond
We are the angels of the south
We are the monsters with no words or a mouth
We have come to be a unit
We have come to see each other be forgotten
But when I watch you in youuuuurr sleep
You have the eyes of a man who loves to eat his sheep.
As she finished her song the odd looking man in the
green trench coat moved to the other side of the train car muttering under his
breath words like 'crazy woman' and 'psycho lady.' The woman sat back down and
continued reading her foreign newspaper.
Train Comic:
1st Panel: Train riding along the edge of a mountain.
2nd Panel: Top-down view of a boy laying on top of one of the train cars.
3rd Panel: Boy with straw in mouth looking up at the sky.
4th Panel: His view of the clouds changing shape.
5th Panel: Train and clouds in frame. Cloud looks like a plane and the boy says "Someday"
