Now I know in my last post I talked about posting a story, but there is a bit you should know about it first before I put it here. Nick and I were working on our books a couple weeks ago and we decided to do a writing exercise. I picked one out that said something along the lines of: "Write a gruesome ending to a story. Just a random story and only write the ending to it." We modified it a bit and wrote a gruesome ending to a short premise, which went like this: A man is sent out to get milk for his kid by his wife, and now he is heading back home after getting the milk. Well we started writing, and 10 minutes later, this happened:
(Note: If you aren't a fan of overly gory things, you probably shouldn't read this)
"Jacob looked up at the sky and squinted. Something was hovering up above, following him. He cradled the milk like he did his young daughter and picked up the pace. Suddenly, a massive weight slammed into his back, sending him sprawling milk-first into the ground. The container exploded, spreading the white liquid every which way. Jacob groaned and looked around. Red was beginning to seep into the pool of milk, tainting it pink. Blood. His blood.
It felt like spears had impaled
him. The thing above him shifted, and he craned his head to see a massive eagle
glaring hungrily at him, the size of a bus. He opened his mouth to scream, and
the eagle opened its beak with a triumphant cry before slamming down with one
deft peck and stabbing Jacob through the head with the sharpened tip.
Jacob's body gave a little twitch,
spasmed, and went still. Blood gushed from the massive wound as the eagle
spread its wings and began to haul the lifeless body up into the air, bits of
brain leaving a trail so gruesome not even Hanzel and Gretel would follow it.
The chicks would feast well tonight. The milk continued to spread, and in the
distance, a baby began to cry."
And it's fine to read again if you skipped the story.
Look, I said it was gruesome. Was I lying blog? I don't know if you're squeamish or not, my guess is not, since you're just an extension of my brain first and foremost, and a digital entity that probably doesn't care much for humans second and aftmost (I don't think that's a thing). Either way, I hope you liked it.
And in space news, scientists were able to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole 6 billion, yes BILLION lightyears away, with a lightyear being 6 trillion miles. 6 trillion times 6 billion equals...a lot of miles. That's far, really far. To top it off, the black hole was spinning at 50% the speed of light. That's fast (186,000 miles a second), really fast. It's pretty cool looking too. The purple things are the galaxy that the black hole is in, and actually the light comes from the massive energy coming out of the black hole (the object is called a quasar). The reason there appears to be more than one of them is because light is being twisted by a large galaxy in front of it (gravitational lensing), quadrupling up the image so you see it multiple times. Nifty, right? Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that. If you agree blog, here's a link to check it out: Cool Space Link to Click On
Well I think that about wraps up this edition of me talking to a blog by typing and not speaking the entire time. Yup. Fun stuff. Have a good night blog.
Sincerely, Your Sober Master, Andrew
I did skip the story, sorry. Self abuse is a weird affliction, eh? Take a bad situation and add shame. Take a good situation and turn it to shame. Who is this monster inside us?
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