This week, we are going to play the prompt game: classic lit edition. The following dialogue is from T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Wasteland”. The rules of the prompt game go like this: write a short story using the dialogue! Then, post it to your blog tagged #andrezel and I will reblog it here! Or you can submit it to my Ask Box. Whatever works for you. This edition of the prompt game ends Sunday, Oct. 7 at 11 pm CDT, when I will post my short story. Happy writing!
Character 1: My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Character 2: …
Character 1: Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
Character 2: …
Character 1: What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
Character 2: …
Character 1: I never know what you are thinking. Think.
Character 2: I think we are in rats’ alley, where the dead men lost their bones.
Character 1: What is that noise?
Character 2: The wind under the door.
Character 1: What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?
Character 2: Nothing again nothing.
Character 1: Do you know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember nothing?
Character 2: I remember: those are pearls that were his eyes.
Character 1: Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?
Character 2: …
Character 1: What shall I do now? What shall I do? Shall I rush out as I am, and walk the street with my hair down, so. What shall we do tomorrow? What shall we ever do?
Character 2: The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four. And we shall play a game of chess, pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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