Hortense de Montigny by

1. The 3 E’s: Entertainment, Education, Escapism

Laurie goes down the street and sees a green bin in the middle of the road, she blinks twice to make sure what she is seeing is real. She switched roads to come closer to it, and I recognised her from the opposite side of the street. “Come with me to the school cafeteria, I’ll show you around”, I told her, and she immediately got frightened. We went around the campus, near the blue bins and around the green bushes, when suddenly… BAM. A paint ball machine in the middle of the green area plops open and creates a horrible attack sound. Laurie runs inside and screams “this isn’t good”, and I answered “what’s not good? I love paintball machines!” To be fair, this was a scary situation as paint was swooshing and aiming at all students around the campus.

At school, bins are really useful. School is key to the development of society. To create a peaceful and equal world, we need to begin to interact with each other in society. This large and scary world is in need of joy. People around the world have always been in need of joy and happiness. All together as people, we benefit from each other and rely on each other to make the Earth a better place. The end of world wars and hunger depends on this.

2. A story based on someone from my school: (Hortense, Folosade, Judith, Citlali)

Lydia used to choose a striped long sleeved shirt out of the closet every morning, pretending as though she didn’t care about what she wore. This carelessness also reflected a sense of superiority in comparison to me, as though she had better things to do.

CHARACTERS:

Old gross manager
Work at the coffeeshop
Escape room
4AM discussion: opening so early
Casey flirts with Aisha
Escape room: welcome to your worst nightmare

3. One paragraph summary of horror story:

Act 1

Coffee shop
Opening shift
4 am, discussion on how much they hate opening how early it is
Casey comes out and flirts with Ayesha
Arabella comes in and insults Ayesha
Lydia doing her job, eating muffin
All windows close “Hello, welcome. You’ve all been selected to participate in the escape room. Your safe words are….One of you will escape. Best of luck”

Act 2

Ovens turn on
Lights flicker
Things fall
Sink turns on
Knifes come out
Girls start freaking out
Casey consoles them
Casey goes to freezer. To fix lights and gets suck
“You’ve been cold to people your whole life, now the tables have turned”
Girl gets second degree burn from water
“People have always said you’re hot headed, now you really are -dark evil laugh-
Lydia reaches for the muffin stress eating, realized it went bad and hallucinates

Act 3

Girls try to figure out who he is, asks questions, tries to figure out where the sound is coming from
Vector proposed sacrifice, 2 of you can get out Casey gets to chose who
Casey choses Arabella. She comes into freezer, freezer locks. They look up. They see 2 deranged girls looking over them with strings. They find out they were controlling it the whole time.

4. Six Word Novel:

"Wasn't lust, think about you everyday."

5. Reflection on the day:
The class was very interesting and since it was hands-on, I was able to get a grasp of what it consisted of. What was most interesting to me was the fact that everybody was able to share their stories and make a contribution to the group project. It elevated the story's purpose as everyone aimed to show a particular emotion. In addition, working with words and creating a story based on previous words used was very new to me; but made me realise the importance of letting go. In this case, losing the control over sentences, and hence the story, reflected my thoughts and immediate emotions at that moment.

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