Yes I wrote down yet another creative snippet. This time the snippet was for the online prompt from Writer’s Digest magazine.
PROMPT: You wake up one morning and find yourself inside a Looney Tunes cartoon with a burning desire to hunt down a certain Bugs Bunny, no matter the cost. What happens next?
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Bugs!
My eyes bulged, my skin crawled, my tongue drooled and my feet shook. My reality had dematerialized- transported into a cartoon madness where the knee high crowd cheered at the antics of a furry, long-eared rodent that had dropped a heavy ACME block on the head of a pudgy doofus with a shotgun in hand. Or was it instead a facade of a hellish Serling episode where everything goes astray in the end?
My head was a hurricane. It was in an unreal world! An Oz where Alice fell down the rabbit hole only to reappear holding a half eaten carrot between its fingers like Groucho Marks. Bugs? That sly wabbit with a trickster’s smirk and a cagey twinkle in its eye. No matter how fast it would run, I had to snatch it because my gut was now screaming for meat, rabbit chow.
But that stinky vermin read my head and knew, somehow, that I was aiming to catch it and eat it barbecue style. I reached left and it flashed right. I took a step forward and it swirl behind and flicked my ear. I hid behind a tree only to watch it walked up to me (bolt) and give me two slaps per cheek before it dived into his hole on the ground.
I even shoved a handful of TNT sticks down its escape hatch, sparked each one, turned around and covered my ears. Bang! To my painful surprise, the smarty pants had dropped the explosive down the back of my floppy pants and left me a smoldered heap of coals. I turned tomato red and steam blew out both my nostrils and ear vents. I tried everything but nothing worked. In the end I chased Bugs up and down the grassy slops. That darn wabbit, I yelped. (Fudd)
[end]
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These are some reviews from pro writers:
Good job, Carlos! This was an excellent story, and you described your character’s thoughts and emotions really well. Keep up the good work!
– Katia Snow
I enjoyed this piece of work. I think you did a good job mixing in details/imagery with action.
-Aura Lord
This is very clever, Carlos. It reads with the flow of a Tex Avery cartoon, not giving the reader (me) a chance to stop and think. I like it!
-Jim Smith
This reads like a very tight, almost minimalist interpretation of a Bugs cartoon. Well done.
-John Reap
A concise descriptive story that sailed along at high speed. Wow, enjoyed this.
– anonymous
I love this!
-Scott Wein
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