Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to write
down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration (quote,
website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind. These will
simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat, irradiate, test
or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if anything comes
of them.
H Trope:
auto-cannibalism
Current Event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-cannibalism
Kari leaned from
behind him while the movie in Forensics flickered on the screen in front of the
class, whispering in his ear, “You know, if you bite your fingernails, the
pieces will poke through your intestines and you’ll get a bleeding ulcer.”
“Shut up,” Mark
hissed back at her.
Mr. Stanton looked
up from the paper he was correcting and scowled at the two of them.
After class, Kari
tapped Mark on the shoulder and said, “You’re the one who asked me to bug you
about it.”
“Yeah, but…” he
stopped talking as a pair of freshmen boys ran like elementary kids down the
hall, cutting between him and Kari. It was a good thing, Mark decided. He’d
almost told her the real reason he wanted to stop biting his nails. Or horking
his snot or sucking the blood from a hangnail or any of the other instances of
him eating his own flesh and blood. It started out as accidental. He’d been
playing boot hockey over Christmas break and he’d been whanged in the nose and
gotten a fierce nosebleed. Swallowing the blood to keep from grossing everyone
out by spitting it on the ice had started something inside of him.
“‘Yeah, but’
what?” Kari asked when they pulled together again.
Mark shrugged and
said, “I’ll tell you at lunch.”
Inside, he heard
his Inner Voice say, “No you won’t. You
won’t tell anyone about me. You just keep feeding me and when I’m big enough,
I’ll come out and we’ll take over the world…”
Name Source:
Local, Minnesota
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