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A Series of Scripts

04-19-2006, 01:27 AM#1
johnfn
I think that the more you put into reading and thinking about this, the more you'll get out of it.




A Series of Scripts

To the finder of these scripts:

I believe these papers mean more then what appears on the surface.

After nine to ten years of searching, I have compiled the following series of scripts in no particular order. I don't have enough time to sort them for you. In fact, I'm going to die in about ten minutes. I can hear the grinding machines, comming closer. focused on their own survival above anyone elses . and maybe this is just my fate , where my life focused on me, im going to die to someone focused on them. bitter irony but deserved, even though they told me. i haven't waited, but now, . i ask : read. understand? i dont undrst d but jut dn i nr w o rg .


*

As a child, we take everything for granted. As we progress into adulthood and we take on more years, we start to appreciate everything that we once thought nothing of, but this appreciation comes at a price. The price is, of course, that we start to worry. I would have given anything to be like the kid in the video. All he was doing was rolling in the grass, but his simple childlike innocence showed that he had no worries, and no fears.

Sometimes when I think back to watching that clip, I consider myself to be the opposite of that child. I have never had his grass or his sky, and I look nothing like the youth portrayed in the frames.

But more importantly, I have never lived without worries.


*

Data log 206.21A

Quole has been excavated

Raw material return rate: 96.796% (Up 0.024)
Mortality count 6 (5 unidentifiable, 1 aged 86.54, a white male)
Total excavations: 15.269.291b (Up 3.204.126, 4.730.709 still required)


*


After the war, everything changed. Without a central government to guide us, the nation that was once so great split into minor factions, constantly fighting for the top, and to get to the top you need the best materials. The only way for us to stop the fighting was to have the dominating faction - a paradox.

Yet even murder is justifiable by circumstance.


*

There used to be an old man here. Sitting on his rockingchair, he'd talk about times when the sky was blue and the ground green. His eyes would mist over and he'd seem to be somewhere else. But there is no old man. There is no rocking chair, and there hasn't been blue in the sky or green in the ground as long as I've lived.

Everything was taken.


*


It's not done, but I'll continue working on it. It's just that right now it's ridiculously late (for me) and I just wanted to show that I do still write sometimes. (Surprise!)



I tried to post this a while ago, but it wouldn't post for some reason. So, you're seeing it now
04-19-2006, 03:15 AM#2
Undead_Lives
I like it. You told the story not through direct writing, but through portions that paint a picture in someone's head. It's a really neat idea.
The only thing I don't like about it is how you said at the beginning "I'm going to die in about ten minutes". I don't know what it is about that sentence, but I think "I'm going to die very soon" sounds much better.
Also, I think you should mention the reason why he is compiling the scripts. A quick "It is necessary for you to know, you don't have to understand anything else but that." could do.
Anyways, that's my feedback.
04-25-2006, 11:10 PM#3
Ignitedstar
This is good. Let it keep going. It's was such a good introduction.