99 word #prompt : Rattling on and on
Carrot Ranch January 5, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a rattling sound. It can be an intimidating sound of protest, a disorienting loud sound, a musical expression or a gentle baby’s toy. Go where the prompt leads you.
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He spoke 12 languages and read texts in 4 so old that no one knew how the words were spoken. His face scowled like a bureaucrat obsessed by one misspelled word in a 100 page document.
To everyone else in the class, he rattled on and on.
“More advancements are made in a benevolent dictatorship, however the next dictator might be a tyrant. The basic problem is people. Someone somewhere wants someone else’s something.”
The class rattled with laughter.
“Once, universities admitted only those individuals willing and able to learn,” he said.
I smiled, an older student nodding agreement.
I did like this response, well done and slightly topical I would think. Potential dictators I was thinking…
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My favorite professor was quirky, unlikeable, and had more knowledge in his little finger than anyone I’ve met. He once walked into class and talked for 20 minutes about how US colleges weren’t as good as European high schools and in how many ways he wasn’t a babysitter (not those exact words, but I’m condensing a 20 minute tirade). 🙂
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I worked with a teacher who once called his senior class sponges as they absorbed everything and gave nothing back. The students were not impressed
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That’s a powerful use of the word rattle, making it a verb that describes the laughter. And after I left my idealistic response (at the ranch) that people might not be the downfall, you give me a story to exemplify your point! Yes. And this line actually says a lot: “Someone somewhere wants someone else’s something.” With German Short-haired Pointers, we call it the Rule of Mine — what’s mine is mine; what’s yours is mine. Great writing!
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Thanks. 🙂
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