Story Maker

A fiery tale, by Fred Stimpson

I began the day on June 27. as I began every other day since I can remember. The air was fresh and crisp, the sun burning brightly on this beautiful Winter day. As every other morning, I walked through the forest trees as tall as Scott Fisher counting at least 505 different kinds of birds chirping happily among the branches. I changed my course, deciding it was time for my daily blogging. Scurrying down to the forest clearing by around twilight, I ran into Satan happily sitting in the sun reading The Language of New Media. I called out to say hello and we began talking about moblogging.

Suddenly, the sun began to move behind the clouds, it began to softly drizzle, and I began to feel strange and all I could taste was propaganda. I exclaimed, holy crap sticks! There was a strange smell that filled the air. Was it virtual reality? Or maybe hypertext? Could it be fire? Satan and I took off running through the clearing, seeing Jenova, and Peggy Weil, and even Tracy Fullerton running for cover! damn right biatch, I gulped. What would become of us? What would become of all our homes? I thought fondly of my wearable media and nokia 3650, would they be lost forever? Rubbing my gluteous, thinking hard, I looked around trying to find the source of the awful smell that was steadily growing stronger. In all the commotion, I lost sight of Satan, but saw a crowd of gradstudents gathering in the distance.

By the time I arrived on the scene, the Ranger had poured database narrative and narratology all over the raging flames, putting out the fire. Relieved and smiling weakly, I found Satan, as well as my friends Brad Newman and Will Carter and bounced over to them knowing that the day was saved! We all thanked the Ranger over and over, and the sun again broke through the clouds as the last remaining puffs of smoke cleared. Satan grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me excitedly, insisting that we still had time to scamper off to develop the future and make the most of the beautiful day.
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Sure it's simple and crude like a bad Mablib, but nonetheless I did create my own story within a structure that provides little agency; and hell it made me laugh too!