h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Short Story - A3903950
Author: Warkve the madness - U1493641

My first Alternative Writing experience

How funny is that??

Just crude I'm afraid!

Not a hint of cleverness!

Ronbloggs

Not Clever? Not mean't to be... sorry. Just is what it is.

Suggestions?

Incidently I was told this was the place for stuff that doesn't match the Peer Review guidelines. Are you telling me don't like it (I know at least a dozen people who thought it was funny - perhaps not to your refined taste, but still funny. I could argue that breaking wind is a normal bodily function which has humourous undertones, but I would prefer not to go there), or are you telling me I can't have it here. In which case, what the bloody hell can you do on h2g2?

A concise piece of writing.

Very concise - I can imagine a few hundred word of story summarised in that.

Why the capital F, by the way?

Suggestions? Chapter 2: The vet was regarding him with what he could only conclude was distaste. "...leftover curried beans, Mr Silk?"

You can put it where you like! (I say, politely).

I was merely giving you the benefit of my personal opinion.

I am as broad minded as anyone else; but I am personally not keen on crudity for crudities sake!

Ron

Missed your last post, Warkve the madness! How did I not see that?

This is the place for writing that doesn't fit the Edited Guide guidelines; so welcome to the AWW .

It's also a workshop, so people will come along and give their opinions, as Ronbloggs did. (waves to Ronbloggs)

What got my interest was the amount of story contained in those thirteen words, I didn't find it funny as such but humour's very personal. I can, for instance, watch about two minutes of Mr Bean and no more.

Yes LLLWaz, you are right; the line does contain the seeds of a possible story. That would legitimise his one-liner!
Perhaps I was a little too hard on our colleague!

Ron

OK. I confess. Had I reacted immediately upon reading "Short Story" my post would have been much like RonB's... a dismissal out of hand. But, oddly perhaps, the d**med thing started a strange story-telling linkage and I made up my own short story leading to that as its conclusion.

Now, I'm not saying that makes it literature. I'm not even saying it justifies its existence! But hey, I have no doubt at all it qualifies as "Alternative" in the best sense.

Cheers LLL, Ron, et al...

And welcome, Warkve, to this demented little universe.

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Cheers Well... I'm relieved anyway

Besides I don't suppose any of you watched Doctor Who? Inadvertently this could be a Doctor Who story now

Some interesting ideas there anyway. I'll have to write a sequel - or you can all right sequels... or whatever. Anyway, all the best.

I think in to should be one word

Let me guess : Chips