laughingcoyote's Journal: Constrained Writing Exercise

Constrained writing exercise, as conceived by ShadowWrought.

This should be a fun and quick exercise. What follows below are ten words randomly generated, you must them all in your work, though not necessarily in the order in which they are listed (though you do get bonus points if you do;-). The limits on the writing is simple:

• For prose, no more than 5 paragraphs.

• For poetry, no more than 20 lines.

• For a play, TV script, or screenplay, no more than a single brief scene.

And the words are...

1. Spacecraft
2. Parasite
3. Refugee
4. Volcano
5. Boiler
6. Generator
7. Jam
8. Photograph
9. Boxer
10. Onion

My submission follows in a comment.

My entry:

[laughingcoyote]

As I look out the window from our departing, cobbled-together spacecraft, I can't stop thinking over the events of the past month. We knew it was coming, but we all hoped the wretched parasite race, known to most as "politicians", could find some way to ward off the coming disaster.

Now there's just us. Maybe a few others, if anyone else got a ship cobbled together in time. Every one of us a permanent refugee from a home that no longer exists. I still remember looking back at the surface of the planet as t

Re:My entry:

[Omnifarious]

Shades of "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury.

Re:My entry:

[Shadow Wrought]

Very well done. A great glimpse of a pretty sad dystopia. I hope the crew makes!