January 20, 2012

Swag School 2

this is a part of my submission called swag school 2. let me know how the flow of the story seems and what i could do to make it better

The pirates were the first group to
go into the hallway. This group is made up of 4 members, Josh, Anthony, Dylan,
and Brendan. As Josh slowly opened the door, a zombie decided to stick his hand
through and fling the door open. Anthony quickly noticed that Josh was in
danger and chopped the zombie in half, the long way, with his trusty Katana.
The 4 boys glanced at each other, almost acknowledging that this wasn't going
to be easy. Josh stood up and continued on his journey out the door. As they
entered into the upper C hallway, they could see rooms with their doors wide
open. Brendan decided they should go inspect them to see what was going on. The
group walked over to the first room and creepily made their way into the room.
To their surprise the room was empty. They walked over to the next one and it
too was empty. All the rooms were empty. No bodies and no zombies either, just
the traces of a struggle and blood smears that stain the floor like red wine on
a white rug. Dylan spoke up and suggested that they go and check the academy.
Maybe some of the administrators had locked the doors and stayed safe. As soon
as they turned around to head back down the hallway, an entire fleet of zombies
had gathered on the other end. Both groups stood there for a second, as if they
were sizing each other up. Anthony looked down at his Katana and started to say
a prayer to the sword gods, Josh looked at Dylan and put it as simple as it
could be put: “Well dude, it’s time to sack up.” Josh and Dylan both loaded a
full clip into their semi-automatic AK-47's as Brendan began to start the motor
on his chainsaw. Anthony rose his head up from the bowing position, pointed his
sword at the line of zombies, and without hesitation charged right at the fleet
of flesh eating bastards. The zombies charged back towards him as Brendan
wasn't far behind. Josh and Dylan took slow steady steps as they began to fire
off round after round at the approaching line, being sure to make every shot
count. By the time the line had reached Anthony, it wasn't much of a line at
all. There were about 6 or 7 zombies left out of the roughly 30 that were
present at the start of this skirmish. Anthony swung his sword with masterful
precision, placing each of his blows in a fatal position on the zombies head or
neck. Brendan charged with reckless abandon and, well, let’s be honest, you
would too if you had a damn chainsaw. As the dust settled and the final body of
the zombie line fell to the ground, the boys looked at each other with an
entire new mindset on this day. It had turned into something they had only seen
in movies, and maybe even wrote about in their creative writing class, who
knows? But all 4 of them had begun to realize that this wasn’t some video game,
and that if they don’t make it out of the school alive it might be game over
for real.

2 comments:

  1. This would be a lot easier to read were it divided into paragraphs. I call reader abuse.

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  2. I agree with what Mr. Greene said. This paper had a better flow than the other opener that I had critiqued. This paper could have had better flow if it was divided into sections that seemed reasonable. I really liked the imagery with the guns and blood and the zombies. Overall, once this part is sectioned better I think that it will be a lot better.

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