Improv

In a drama class, students are asked to ramble nonsensical blabber for two minutes.

I turned my blabber into song lyrics.

Then I found that I could float and push off walls as a swimmer does in a freestyle flip turn.

Business Trip Dad

(set to the rocking background music of George and Jonathan)

My dad goes on business trips but always comes back with presents for each of us.

This time he brought me an antique penny gumball machine. Instead of gumballs, it was filled with old pennies.

I glimpsed an indian head cent, but also a 1902 lincoln cent, which, I thought, was impossible since the US Mint only began producing the new pennies in 1909.

Survived By

The helicopter turned and fired a rocket.
The rocket rocketed and swerved through the air, then struck a tank.
The tank burned and ejected many flaming victims, some of whom succumbed to the fire.
The victims crawled and included a torsoless girl who tottered on her hands.
The girl cried and clutched an ancient secret book of geometry.
The book rested and mouldered in a dripping cave for a thousand years.
The cave yawned and anticipated the arrival of more survivors.

Opportunity Costs

Machinegun Mike owns a karate dojo where every employee is named Mike. He also runs a punchcard sorting service from the dojo.

Good Neighbors

Gertrude Tidwell lost his timepiece in our backyard.

We learned of this fact when he leaped over our fence, bursting a giant elongated soap bubble (which burst radiantly in a slow-motion rainbow) to look for it amongst the ice plants.

Recent storms had impacted and broken the sewage pipes with mud which drained into the Stanford water treatment facility.

Pop Corn

Grace Jones broadcast an annoying message about me over the intercom system at a Best Buy using my cell phone, then she threw it on the ground.

Outside, she was confronted by the Vancouver Canucks for public intoxication.

In the Neighborhood

Friendly fish follow me.
I tickle a catfish under its chin.
Two Koi and a rainbow parrot fish leap out of the water into my arms, then, they all mimic my movements like dolphins levitating out of the water on their tails.

My shadow follows me.
I jump along a sidewalk next to a concrete wall.
Trying over and over to touch both feet to the wall as high as possible, I think of a game with this core mechanic, set to 1970's 'classic' rock with a backdrop of muscle cars.