This month, the Literary Magazine arm of the Paw Print gave Sonoma Academy students a challenge to create two sentence stories about horror and satire. Here are the winners and some honorable mentions as selected by our team!
Satire Winner: I stare in shock at the children’s mangled, shredded corpses. Wondering why I ever thought chainsaw piñata was a good idea for 4th graders. (Luke Boatright)
Horror Winner: I’m sorry sir, but unfortunately we had to cancel your brain surgery. The growth in your brain has developed a heartbeat, so I suggest you start thinking of names. (Sarika Satish)
Honorable Mentions:
You stride through the whiteout, white snow crunching beneath a pair of heavy boots. At the sound you pause, your bare socks soaking through in the thick snow. (Lola Pavlak)
Thump! They all died. (Atticus Katz)
You walk into class on June 7th and tell your students to review chapters 6 and 7. (David Hyde)
My eyes opened. What was behind them as I slept stared right at me. (Tamar Knuth)
Eventually, the pieces of bacon went quiet, no longer begging me to stop chomping into their juicy fat. Then, the edible wore off, and I couldn’t recognize my son’s remains from my daughters. (Luke Boatright)
I knew the spiralling of the cochlea matched those of the shells on the horrible, slimy creatures who terrorised our garden at night. I couldn’t bear to see Mama eaten alive by those things—her ashes; her tomatoes—so I coloured my head the same as the bloody juice which now runs from her torn, growing hearts. (Anja K. Nielsen)
That was a great community meeting presentation on how we can be more inclusive; what does P.S stand for today? PROBLEMATIC STEREOTYPES??!! (Connor Kempiak)
