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seperis ([personal profile] seperis) wrote2009-11-30 05:48 pm
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Child's essay for class for Thanksgiving.

...no, really. Just. Um. {} are my additions

What I Am Thankful For {by Child}

On thanksgiving I had said I was thankful for my loving mother. I was thankful for my three cousins {Niece, Niece Two, and Nephew}. But last I am thankful for my whole family and this glorious country of America.

free right


It was a cold Dec 7, 2012. In a post-apocalyptic world, dead bodies had lined the streets in black body bags. Cars were abandoned. I was in the middle of 100s of infected people with a bomb. But let me back up to when it all started. At midnight on January 1, 2012, a mass zombie outbreak had happened because a mutated meteor had hit the earth. The people in {unknown word} had died but kept walking to be {unknown word}

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Child: What do you think?
Me: So it's genetic, huh?
Child: *bemused*

He's gone to type and finish it.

So. Apparently, destroying the world in fiction is like, a gene or something. Or maybe it was too much Torchwood?

*bewildered*

ETA: Second draft is lingering lovingly on the details of the rotting corpses. I may never sleep again.

ETA 2: Holy God, he thinks he's writing a children's book.

[identity profile] lainy122.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahahahhaha! Man, I wish Australia had Thanksgiving, so that I could sit back and pretend that someone, somewhere in my country could write something like this.

I think I will have to be content with the fact that it happened in your country, on the other side of the world. :D

Your child is truly epic. Let no one tell you otherwise.

[identity profile] anitac588.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
LOL at ETA2!!!
New generations, Jenn, new generations. :D

[identity profile] mz-bstone.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
*DIES LAUGHING*

Awesome.

Could he be the Gaiman of the pre-teen set?

B

[identity profile] cpt-untouchable.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
I just literally flailed with glee. *rolls around*

[identity profile] nimnod.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Bwaha. That's *wonderful*
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[personal profile] abbylee 2009-12-01 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm mostly just loving his narrative VOICE. <3 <3 <3

[identity profile] burntcopper.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
er, if you're in the UK market it is. half the 8-12 fiction in my school library was like that. Admittedly a lot of it was post-nuclear due to being written in the 80s.

[identity profile] grey-bard.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
A children's book? Don't knock it, not entirely impossible! Remember, lots of kids are bloodthirsty little things and most adult authors won't cater to it properly, so when an author does... See Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine for potential fame and fortune in your kid's future.

Yeah, I know. Mindboggling, but yours can't be the the only kid who likes apocafic.

[identity profile] out-there.livejournal.com 2009-12-01 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly, it's a gene thing. (Having said that, this entire post totally made me giggle. Of course your kid would use "write about thanksgiving" to write about the zombie apocalypse. Of course.)

[identity profile] everagaby.livejournal.com 2009-12-02 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
IT BEGINS

First apocafic, then you're only scant months away from finding him tirelessly editing together footage from Evil Dead 1-3 to the dulcet tones of the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive".

At least he's dedicated a place to you in his post-zombie apocalyptic regime?

[identity profile] khyrra.livejournal.com 2009-12-02 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
You seriously have the most awesome kid, ever.

[identity profile] iteari.livejournal.com 2009-12-02 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Is this a bad moment to go awww?
ext_97775: (And hopefully before you get attacked.)

[identity profile] renuki.livejournal.com 2009-12-03 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
...If that his idea of a children book, imagine what his idea of a horror story would be like. O_O

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