life serial
About | Email | Twitter | Goodreads | Last.fm Flickr | Ask | Archive | RSS

Matthew Allard is an author, freelance writer, and Internet geek. Some of his stories were inspired by illustrations from Ian Dingman and made into a book called To Slow Down The Time.

This is his blog.

I decided to do a quick stream of consciousness thing. I think somewhere in here there is something usable for something later on. Or, there isn’t. It doesn’t matter. The point was to just start writing and continue writing non-stop for a period of time. I should have continued on longer, but my options get sorta slim. Ah, well.

—

The fire started in a small attic apartment. It started from a cigarette. It burned the whole building down.

“Smoking kills,” Damon said. He set his cup of noodles on the coffee table. He lit a cigarette and exhaled its bluish smoke. He changed the television channel. He clicked the remote. The picture swapped with each click. A woman was riding a horse through a meadow, a greedy wind blowing her auburn hair here, there, everywhere. A cop was shoving a man’s face against a brick wall. A couple of teenagers were dangerously close to kissing.

“Stop, stop, stop stop stop,” Clay said. “I saw this one. She’s a vampire, dude.”

Damon changed the channel.

“Dude!”

“You said you already saw it.”

“I wanted to see it again, dumbass. Vampire babes are the best.”

Damon said, “Zombie babes are better.”

The TV flipped through a basketball game, then a lizard sneaking up on some sort of iridescent insect.

“What is riboflavin?” a woman on Jeopardy answered, her square podium lit up hot white.

The channel changed. The channel changed. The channel changed. The channel changed. The channel changed. The channel, it changed. Damon changed the channel. The channel changed on its own. The TV was possessed. Suddenly a bright red laser shot out of the old screen and melted the two boys into twin piles of adolescent goo. The end!

  1. dgaflife said: this was really cool!
  2. lifeserial posted this