Round 5: A Tea Party for Automatons
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governmentcontrolledcatsIt's time for the fifth round of Government Controlled Cats!
The Prompts:
Please note, the format has changed from the previous round. All rounds will have different formats.
The Format: A children's story.
The Format's Length: 1-500 words of original fiction. Please note that entries are not required to use the words from their prompt's title and summary.
A Quick Reminder of How to Enter and Entry Rules: Five comments, containing one prompt each, will be added to this prompt post. In order to submit an entry, REPLY with a comment to your selected prompt comment. Each entry must be in the specified format and be submitted as a REPLY comment to the prompt comment. Do not comment with your entry as a reply to other entries; only comment with your entry as a reply to the original prompt comment.
Participants can submit up to three entries per round to the prompt(s) of their choice. If participants are not signed into Dreamwidth, Livejournal or openID, please include a preferred name/handle at the top of the entry comment, otherwise the entry will be considered to be written by 'anonymous.'
Submissions are due by 11:59PM United States East Coast Time on Thursday, September 15th, 2011. If you're not on United States East Coast Time, you may find the World Clock to be handy. Refer to 'New York' for current United States East Coast Time.
Have fun!
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The Prompts:
Sock: Powerpoint presentations have been banned and the government controls personality quizzes.
Fear: Carpets have been banned and the government controls dustbusters.
Will: Fear has been banned and the government controls banana slugs.
Ninja: Cubicles have been banned and the government controls guinea pigs.
Tackle: File cabinets have been banned and the government controls numbers.
The Format: A children's story.
The Format's Length: 1-500 words of original fiction. Please note that entries are not required to use the words from their prompt's title and summary.
A Quick Reminder of How to Enter and Entry Rules: Five comments, containing one prompt each, will be added to this prompt post. In order to submit an entry, REPLY with a comment to your selected prompt comment. Each entry must be in the specified format and be submitted as a REPLY comment to the prompt comment. Do not comment with your entry as a reply to other entries; only comment with your entry as a reply to the original prompt comment.
Participants can submit up to three entries per round to the prompt(s) of their choice. If participants are not signed into Dreamwidth, Livejournal or openID, please include a preferred name/handle at the top of the entry comment, otherwise the entry will be considered to be written by 'anonymous.'
Submissions are due by 11:59PM United States East Coast Time on Thursday, September 15th, 2011. If you're not on United States East Coast Time, you may find the World Clock to be handy. Refer to 'New York' for current United States East Coast Time.
Have fun!
Re: Prompt 5
Date: 2011-09-02 04:02 am (UTC)Casey had never imagined that math class could be better than anything at all. But it was heaps better than Propaganda classes. In Propaganda, they had to sit and listen to a man say how good the Government was, and how they had made everybody more free by taking away the school secretary, and how nobody was being oppressed by having to do math anymore.
He didn’t understand what was so good about it. He still had to do his homework, except now he had to say how good the government was, even though his mum and dad thought it was evil. And now his mum made him do secret math classes that he wasn’t supposed to tell anybody about in case they got into trouble.
Josie had reported her parents for making her do secret math classes, and he hadn’t seen Josie or her parents since. The government man had said that her parents were now enemies of the state, and Josie had gone to a new home with better parents.
Casey had asked if he could write to Josie, and they had said no, he couldn’t. His mum and dad had said that it was because they couldn’t write the addresses on envelopes anymore. Even the government people weren’t allowed to anymore. Even the Minister for Finance had been arrested when he had tried to talk about the economy. All the new Minister for Finance would talk about was how good apples tasted. Casey didn’t like apples.
He fiddled with his ID card, and made the note in his pocket rustle. He froze, and then very carefully took his hand out of his pocket. Jason had given him a very secret note for his parents, and if the government man caught him with it, his parents and Jason’s parents would be taken away too. It had a rough map to the location of a hidden filing cabinet, which had the names and (non-approved) phone numbers of the resistance high command on it.
The government man would give him a big reward if he turned the map in. It would have lollies and even a copy of the special approved computer game in it. Only really good kids were allowed the special approved computer game. But he bet himself he wouldn’t be allowed to skip propaganda class. That was the thing he wanted most. It wasn’t worth it otherwise.
He made up his mind. Long live the revolution! Numbers ruled! Filing cabinets were the pathways to greatness! All they had to do make this country the best in the world was to ban plastic!
Re: Prompt 5
Date: 2011-09-03 11:42 am (UTC)Re: Prompt 5
Date: 2011-09-04 12:11 am (UTC)