{"id":126,"date":"2009-10-06T03:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msmichetti.edublogs.org\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-10-06T03:21:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T07:21:26","slug":"dead-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/dead-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Design Journal assignment required us, among other things, to write a 55-word story, in the spirit of\u00a0 55 Fiction<\/a>. Frank didn’t say so directly, but I imagine this has something to do with the importance of story-telling in design<\/a>. And what better way to understand the important elements of a story than to whittle it down to its bare-bones elements. It reminds me a little bit of Angry Alien Productions’ 30-Second Bunnies<\/a>, in that only the basics remain, and yet the story still functions. Here is my first ever 55-word story.<\/em><\/p>\n


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Dead Giveaway <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDark-Field Lighting 2<\/a> by Kyle May
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\u201cSweetheart,\u201d he gushes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhiskey, darling?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlways.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The waiter pauses. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJameson. On rocks, for him.\u201d Sipping wine, she fumbles in her purse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pocket vibration. \u201cSweetheart, I’ve gotta. . . Hello?\u201d He rises. Impatient ice melts into Jameson; she fumbles in her purse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Only after paramedics remove the motionless body, the waiter remembers crimson nails, fumbling in her purse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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