Chapters @ MindSay

And continuing on from entry 32 - here is the scene from Stand By Me that inspired the section below from chapter 42 of Fire Of Glory.

 

I only realised today that I'm the one playing the FoG role of Lard Ass.

Tee hee... Oh well. :)

 

 

"Okay, you all know the rules. This is a NU-NH contest, no hands or forks allowed - 'kay?"

He took out a whistle. "Oh my mark..."

"Three... Two... One..." He blew it hard, and everyone set off.

SPLAT! LuigiGirl buried her face into the pie below her.

Everyone else did likewise, forgetting all possible table-manners, munching like pigs that’d just finished dieting.

Dixie was the first to finish hers first. "Done!" She called, and a Koopa threw another pie down onto the table in front of her.

"Done!" Andrew called, only seconds after Dixie.

"Done!" LuigiGirl called afterwards, as another pie was set in front of her.

A few moments later, everyone was onto their third pies, their faces covered with thick berry-filling.

"Good, huh?" Dixie asked, in-between mouthfuls.

"Nothin' better!" LuigiGirl exclaimed.

"Done!" Dixie announced, onto her fourth.

Andrew glared at her, plunging his face right into the centre of his pie, almost swallowing the whole contents of the dish in one go. "Done!"

"Done!" LuigiGirl called afterwards.

The contest ran steady for the next several minutes, Dixie leading with nine pies, Andrew on seven, LuigiGirl on six, Mack, Donovan, Edward and Zed on five.

"Take it easy Dixie!" Koopinator warned.

"Done!" LuigiGirl called. "He's right, take it easy, eh?" She said, before yet another pie was set in front of her.

Dixie ignored them both. "Done!" She yelled, before shoving her face into her tenth pie.

A few moments later, she began choking, coughing and spluttering loudly.

She grabbed her glass, and chugged the whole pint of 'water' down in one go.

LuigiGirl raised her head, glancing awkwardly at her partner. "Done!" She called. "Geez, we told ya to-"

Dixie stopped, bringing her head up.

"Oh..." She groaned, clutching her stomach. "Suddenly I... I don't feel so good..."

"Are you okay?" LuigiGirl asked, beginning to slightly panic.

Dixie slowly stood up from her chair, her stomach growling rabidly, like a wild dog.

Andrew pulled his head free from his ninth pie.

"Hey-hey, what's up? Has poor little Dixie got a tummy ache? Pah, you'll never make it as far as me!" He mocked.

"Keep eatin' those pies, Bandwidth! It was great to have you quiet for more than three seconds!" LuigiGirl growled.

"Pah." Andrew said again, sneering at Dixie. "She's a wuss, never will beat the almighty Bandwidth at eating contests!"

"Andrew..." Dixie coughed. "You better shut up... Or I'll-"

Dixie gasped, her eyes rolling backwards in fear.

She opened her mouth to finish her sentence - but a cascading waterfall of purple vomit erupted from her throat, tumbling from her mouth, and drenching Andrew in a purple sticky mess.

Dixie didn't stop, she continued breathing fire for around two minutes - by this time, Andrew had almost drowned in the purple sea, and the floor had somehow flooded too.

Dixie coughed hard, before closing her eyes, and tumbling backwards, landing with a hard thump on the floor.

 

As I mentioned in post 30 - I downloaded the film Stand By Me today, over Limewire.

 

Emily and I are working on a novel together, entitled "Fire Of Glory."

It's actually a slight work of fan fiction, and thus, the reason why we posted it on FFN.

You can find it right here.

 

 

Two scenes from this film inspired two scenes in Fire Of Glory. The events themselves are indeed familiar - but because it's only fan fiction, we have no need for charges being filed. :)

 

An event in chapter 91 is inspired by a song by The Click Five, Just The Girl.

An event in chapter 25 is inspired by an episode of Dexter's Labratory.

The whole of chapter 45, I got the idea from watching a clip from Balls Of Steel.

 

 

The video above inspired this scene from chapter 38:

 

 

Dixie stopped, a look of fear spread over her face.

"Err... LG... What's that?!" She gasped, pointing at her partner's neck.

"What's what?"

"Oh... Crap!" Dixie gasped. "Don't tell me..."

"What?"

Dixie tugged her right arm out of the murky water. Several black, slimy creatures were affixed to her skin.

Dixie screamed, wading furiously towards the bank.

"Leeches!" She yelped, attempting to pull them off.

LuigiGirl's jaw dropped. "First Piranhas, now these little buggers!?" She yelled. "We've gotta get some help!"

"No!" Dixie hissed, holding out her arm for LuigiGirl to grab onto.

"Quick, get out!" She whispered, attempting to tug the blood-sucking creatures from her arms.

LuigiGirl took her hand, being pulled violently out of the water. "Get 'em off!" She cried, in fear.

"Don't panic!" Dixie said, although she was indeed panicking herself. "They'll release their grip if you just relax your arm."

"Relax!?" LuigiGirl asked. "How can I RELAX!?"

"LG...!" Dixie hissed. "Stop yelling!"

"Sorry." LuigiGirl sighed, watching the black parasites squirm along her arm. "It feels disgusting."

"I know..." Dixie winced, tugging the final one from her wrist. Both girls were now covered with red bite marks, most of them bleeding.

 

 

My blog puts all of the pieces out there. Anyone who is interested in just the posting, hopefully, finds the point to why it's there. If they are interested in the person then it's up to them to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

 

Aren't most people like that? There are the ones who brag or put the other kind of facade up so as to misdirect the impression. I guess I'm too insecure . . . I know the truth, that I'm just a guy who has to study harder, practice more . . . and take the hammering of not hitting a home run every time . . .

 

So, I don't respect those who have the benefit of resources earned or inherited  . .  if they use any of it to congratulate themselves . . . after all, I have served in combat, been given a son's responsibility, a lover's trust and a man's respect . . . everything else is account balances and no measure of a man . . . and I've wasted a life not having the privlege of being a father . . .

 

I enjoy making you happy . . . want you in my arms, favorite music in the back ground . . . something good to eat later . . . taste your kisses . . . taste you . . . all that I want . . .

 

G.

P.S. You reached out . . . don't leave now . . .

 

 

Tenses...
I have written, I wrote, I write, I am going to write, I will write later, I am writing...

Okay so I've put half a chapter completely in past tense. (Believe me that's an achievement to get it right.) But do people prefer past tense or present tense? With present tense you end up with too many 'occasnioally' and 'practically' words which get annoying after a while.

Especially in action it is better to have it in present tense, but I have that bit in past tense. I think we discussed this in class before. Where you don't change tense mid chapter, but you can for each different chapter. Blah, I really don't know. At the moment I'll keep it in past tense, but I keep on changing it without thinking. Not good.

"No one with your passion could ever come up empty-handed."

 

Standing in Chapters, I told The Drummer everything I believed to be true, right before I left him for the Buddhism section.

There is something about the way he laughs at me when I fuck up that makes me want to kiss him. His kisses still make my tummy tingle.

And such are the oddities of life that just as I had given up on love, I was proven wrong.