Exquisite Corpse

My Kringlish kids--along with my Japanlish and Hong Konglish kids--are having trouble with verb shifts in their writing, so I had them do an epic round of exquisite corpse to see if they could maintain a consistent verb tense throughout a story.  They all got a different story starter and after 7 writers, they came up with some interesting stuff.  Here are just two for now.

Try to get to the end of this one...

My brother has never smelled very nice, but today he’s absolutely…

[1]neat and clean.  This morning my brother washed his hair, brushed his teeth, and sprayed a rosemary perfume.  Whenever he passed by me, I could smell a perfume and I couldn’t recognize him.  I asked him where he was going.

[2]“It’s none of your own business.  Beat it,” he said, as always.  I thought that his attitude would’ve changed along with his appearance, but no, I guess.  By my mischievous instinct told me to follow him straight away.  As he left off I dressed up like an old lady.  Covering my face up with make-up and sneakily ran to his way.

[3]He was walking quite fast.  I had no choice but to jog a little to catch up with him.  Sometimes he turned around to see if anyone was following him.  Fortunately, my brother didn’t recognize me in costume and continued to walk.

[4]I kept walking behind him without any sound.  Suddenly, my brother stopped but he didn’t turn around to check if there was anyone following him.  He said, “Who are you?  Why do you keep following me?  Do you want to kill me?  For what?”

[5]I answered, “Yeah you dirtbag!  I know everything you did for the past three months.”  I ran over him and tried to put handcuffs on his hand.  Then I discovered that he doesn’t have hands.  I was so shocked and he tried to talk to me.  “Kill me!  Kill me!  I want to burn myself and I am too scared to do so.”  He was begging me to put fire on him.  So I did!  But he came out to be a zombie since he was moving around with fire on him.

[6]He bit me and set me on fire.  “Great,” I thought, “I’m on fire and I’ll become a zombie soon.”  He decided that if he was going to become a zombie, he would be the greatest zombie that ever…lived.  No, lived isn’t the right word, is it.  Anyway, he knew that he had to…

[7]Kill everything that was walking alive.  Furious, or in madness, he ran after anything that is alive.  He didn’t even tired to bite them.  All he did was tearing apart bodies until the victim stopped making any noise.  After few years, on top of the burning city, he stood.  His nails grown like blade, he stabbed, tearing his last victim into pieces and cried, “Long live, king of blades!”

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“Oh my god,” she yelled at the top of her lungs…

[1]There was a big bear in front of her.  She quietly checked her bag to find some weapon to defend, but only thing she had was a pencil, books, and a cell phone.  Now she realized that the bear recognized her as enemy, or just an alive, moving flesh, she started to run away.  Even though she knew the bear will outrun her but that was the only thing that she could think of among what she could have done.

[2]So the bear ate her in one sitting.  Sadly, the mother bear forgot to save some for her babies, so she had to find some more food.  There were no other delicious looking campers around, so she decided to...

[3]begin a travel to the north mountain with her babies.  The mother bear said to her babies, “Sorry, babies, I couldn’t find food.  We have to go to another area to get the food.  Follow me…”  After a few days, they reached a new place and there were plentiful fruits and animals.

[4]The mother bear went straight for hunt while her cubs were left behind to collect some fruits.  Successful at hunting, the mother bear returned quick enough to find her babies eating fruits they have collected.

[5]Suddenly one of the baby bears burst into flames.  “What the hell,” the mother bear thought.  Clearly the fruit that the cubs collected were actually explosives.  She had to get away, but her babies followed as she ran away from them.

[6]She kept running and they still followed her.  Then another baby bears also burst into flames.  Her situation went more worse.  Still running she crushed with smooth and fell down.  After she saw that object she got really shocked.  It was a huge jelly bear!  “Oh my fuck,” but jelly bear stopped baby bears for her.  She realized that jelly bear is not an evil.

[7]But suddenly jelly bear’s face was changed and seemed very angry. “What’s wrong with you…?”  The jelly bear didn’t answer and began to eat baby bears.  Few minutes later, a jelly bear said, “Hmmmmm…I’m hungry.  I need more bears!”