For this week's Six Sentence Story in the SSC&B world, I had way too many thoughts: Is it out of character when the one who's afraid of the dark suddenly gets overly curious about the only light in the hallway—or is it just that her curiosity wins over her fear... does reality bend in the café when everyone is off on their own adventure and accidentally bump into each other... does the author lead the character or the character lead the author, and why am I so inclined to find boxes... is a change in the narrator's voice considered poor writing, like the overuse of filler words—or am I simply overthinking it as I sip my pitch-black coffee... the prompt word... it is balloon, I must use it for sure... think I should go downstairs...
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There is more than one room in the Six Sentence Café & Bistro
"What a curious place," Aurelia told herself as she wandered around the small nook the light had led her to, dragging her fingers across the binders that covered every wall before continuing, "I bet if I screamed, nobody would hear me."
But before she got to testing the theory, a monstrous one caught her eye—a bright red binder so thick and heavy that she teetered backwards, almost falling over a box while trying to pull it out of its slot in the wall.
"Writing poetry is an art not made for the faint of heart; one needs to capitalize every line and use the power of em dashes, colons, semicolons, and ellipses to create breathing and emotion in the line breaks," she read aloud while feeling the hairs on the back of her neck prickle.
"I don't need no goddamned rules," she muttered with a yawn so big it was overtaking her disappointed expression, as she slid the said binder across the floor as far away from her as possible before shifting her attention to the box.
And well, one might say that the contents of said box were even more underwhelming: not a single balloon in sight, just a pile of blank sheets of already-yellowing paper—a frankly ridiculous amount of it, if I may say so myself.
"Ahh, I should head downstairs," she said to herself as her salivary glands got far too excited for cake and coffee to stay in the the overwhelmingly boring room.
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Cake and coffee sounds good.
Yea, it sounds so good.
Hahaha, very droll… some boring things in that bit of that place. Still, it’s always good to go to get stuff in that wonderful Café! Hope to see you soon…
I hope to see you too soon and I was laughing myself too while writing this, like a lunatic in the corner of the room… I think I trolled Aurelia a bit too much. Thank you!
I used to use what I described as aggressive punctuation in my poetry- sometimes I republish it in its original form. As I wrote it- in my mind- the punctuation was equally as important as the words…
I sometimes tend to think the same way, that the line breaks and punctuation are just as important… And it always makes me overthink and read the poem too many times until I can’t decide… But sometimes I think it’s also a trap and it’s better to put the energy into wording instead.
“…does reality bend in the café when everyone is off on their own adventure”
(“well. duh!” lol ttm)
the beauty part of the SSC&B is that we (individual writers/characters) have the luxury of doing just that (wandering off, tardy rabbit or otherwise) and… this may seem weird, but as I currently write for the tall, thin man (and Lou*) somehow knowing there are other ‘real’ people in the building…adds something as I look for the storyline
*for the record, Lou is one of those characters I’m here only as stenographer
For some reason I knew you would react this way to this specific question! The moment I decided to include it in the intro I knew you’d be like, well duh! lol.
The intro is part of my drafting, but with some things removed and better worded perhaps…