Grief is a Winding Road; Regret, an Endless Labyrinth

[normsherman]

Of all the ghosts that endlessly chase him, it is theirs alone he cannot turn to face.

It’s been almost 13 years now since the tragedy that took his wife and 8-year old daughter, and while Pacman hadn’t been home the night the gas stove caught fire, he imagines it all as if he had been. He imagines their screams drowning out in flame and he imagines their baleful disembodied eyes watching him-- his infidelity-- from the dark corner of a strange woman’s room.

Pacman swallows another handful of yellow pills, and chases them down with a pineapple.

[ROU Killing Time]

Wokka Wokka Wokka... Nyu nyu nyu nyu nyuuuuu!

:thumbs:

[ROU Killing Time]

I'd change one line (the first "imagines") to "he hears their screams" to avoid the double imagine use.

[unseentangerine]

I'd change one line (the first "imagines") to "he hears their screams" to avoid the double imagine use.

That's a 103 word drabble. I think that he really meant to convey a continuation of one thought across two sentences. In which case the use of two of the same word is most appropriate.

[ROU Killing Time]

I'd change one line (the first "imagines") to "he hears their screams" to avoid the double imagine use.

That's a 103 word drabble. I think that he really meant to convey a continuation of one thought across two sentences. In which case the use of two of the same word is most appropriate.

Oh I quite agree it's allowable, although personally, when I only have 100 words to work with, I have a tendency to try and use as many unique words as possible.
#tongueincheek

[normsherman]

I think that he really meant to convey a continuation of one thought across two sentences. In which case the use of two of the same word is most appropriate.

Haha, yah that was the idea (going by the ol "3 times and it's intentional" doctrine'). Intensity through repetition or whatever.

Had a weird dream about catching Inky and Blinky's disembodied eyes watching you before fleeing into the darkness back to base and decided that was probably the creepiest part to the whole Pacman mythos.

[ROU Killing Time]

nyu.nyu,nyu,nyu...

please insert another quarter...

[AbbawithanI]

Drowning himself in bad fruit cocktails, no doubt, whose cherry syrupyness has soured over these many quartered years. Love it!

[MonsieurMoustache]

Well, there was a game concept I didn't think was all that weird until Norm Sherman found a way for it to make sense. It's great to have you posting here, Norm, I love your drabble work.

[pondspider]

... It's great to have you posting here, Norm, I love your drabble work.

Yeah... Welcome to the forum, Norm

[strawman]

He used to hang out here a lot.
But it came down to producing the stories or not.

[Chairman Goodchild]

Pills will chase away the ghosts, but only for awhile. They always come back, harder and stronger than ever before. Then you run out of pills, and you can't get anymore, and those ghosts are right behind you, breathing down your neck. They're all you think about.

Then, finally, finally you can get more pills. You just tease yourself with them, you don't want to pop them too fast, because as much as you need them, you have to pace yourself or you'll run out again. Then you find yourself propped up against a wall somewhere, just staring at one until you can't help yourself anymore. Then you take it, and that rush just kicks in, it's like you're invincible.

But here's the thing: those pills don't work so well anymore. You keep on taking them, and they keep on working less and less. Then, one day, they don't work at all. But you can't stop taking them.

If it sounds like I know what I'm talking about, I do. And in the end, what do I have to show for it?





A high score of 350,000.

[strawman]

Player channeling inner lab rat.