Mackenzie Loomis- More than 10 people a year
- Mackenzie Loomis- More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.
- The machine falls on them, because they aggressively shake it to get their snack to fall.
- They jump out the way, fall, laughing hard. "That*s, what happened to my life: I just wanted a bit of happiness and then the whole thing collapsed." He turns quiet
- every time the sky flashes purple. The colour overwhelms him with a feeling of exhaustion, and it is hard enough to keep his eyes open. He couldn't remember his name and leant on
- a nearby verbiage sprouting a few flowers of speech. Purple haze pummeled his occular orbs, and like squeezed grapes they exuded sweet utterances. Similitudes oozed up and
- in metaphoric oxymorons they twisted the meaning of the Haiku. Poetry on Folding Story Glittered in transcendent beauty leaving each line or verse more vividly imprinted on the mi
- nds of its reader. Shakespeare himself would have appreciarted the glittering monuments to the poetic art form he would see on FoildingStory. Iambic pentameter was a play thing in
- a buffoons wattle house. sumer indeed is a comen and so is wynter. alack for my lack of a quack in this black flack! But my bombs were away, where they went, I can't say. They migh
- -t have detonated somewhere over the lonely ocean and startled a fish, but that was hardly the effect I had anticipated. So I gave up bomb-making and took up flower arrangement.
- But, no. Then it was underwater basketweaving. Finally, paint-by-number. Ultimately, I rocked to & fro on my front porch,watching the world go by& wondering if I'd imagined it all.
- Started
- 2016-10-12 16:09:26
- Finished
- 2018-10-12 20:55:48
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Woab Oct 13 2018 @ 14:56
Fascinating line by Slim, and the Prof's ending was winsome.
SlimWhitman Oct 21 2018 @ 05:21
Why thankyou! I don't remember exactly what prompted my line. I think I was stimulated by the imagery of lolarose's fold and just went with it.