What are you Writing now?

rubber soul · 01-30-2018, 03:21 AM

You know, at my old writing site *chorus of groans* we had a thread called 'write a story in a sentence'. We had another one that challenged you to write a story in exactly 100 words. My favorite was write a story with mostly dialogue. The OP would give a prompt and you'd write a quick story with all dialogue, maybe with a narrative set up. One prompt wanted you to write abut being in the middle of something important and being asked to do something trivial. He also asked for sarcasm. This is what I came up with.

Quote:

Dr. Howard was in the middle of a heart operation when he was interrupted by the hospital administrator. This administrator had access to every part of the hospital no matter what time, or what was being done.

"Excuse me Dr. Howard. Can you sign this form?" The administrator seemed rather insistent.

"Not now. Can't you see I'm in the middle of an operation?"

"But Dr. Howard, I cannot permit you to operate on this patient until you sign this form."

"Well, I'd say it's a little late now, wouldn't you?"

"Nevertheless. I need you to sign this form."

"I can't sign it now. I'm holding this man's heart. Scalpel."

"Don't give him that scalpel, nurse."

"Do you want this man to die?" The doctor was becoming a bit incredulous.

"No. I want you to sign this form."

"Nurse, hold this." Doctor Howard grudgingly went to the administrator. "Where do I sign?"

"Right here, in triplicate. Do you need a pen?"

"No I can sign it in blood."

And with that, Dr. Howard signed his name with his finger, still covered with the patient's blood.