How long until this beautiful contest ends?
Pharaoh wrote:
I just wish the second paragraph wasn't so long. Anyway, here's my entry. Ending was rushed more than I wanted, because it wasn't going to fit your two-paragraph max.His mind had been gone a long time ago. It wasn’t the kind of thing you found surprising in a man of such age and stature. Sure, he seemed like a decent fellow at first. At one point in his life, he’d been married with children. His intellect took over and as more creations came about, he struggled to find the perfect thing. A creature capable of speech, motion, and even its own thought. He dove deeper into insanity, abandoned by his family when hope was lost that he might ever return. Two sons and his wife, gone in the blink of an eye, and he didn’t even notice. He lived and breathed work, never stopping unless his body forced him to. So many times had he just fallen asleep mid-step during a project. The man’s age was catching up to him fast, and now his grey hairs were withering out of his very head. “This day,” he declared to himself, “will be the one.” He hadn’t said those words in so long, one couldn’t doubt it. He pulled out a master plan from so long ago, something that he had put away because it had been impossible to offer any result. That is, until this day, when his mind had so far gone it didn’t matter anyway. He tried everything to find parts for his creation, but it was an impossible feat. All had been used before in failed attempts. Anger quickly overtook him, and he began to bash about what he had already crafted, sending bits shattering upon impact of the floor.
That is, until he saw the birdcage. His wife had kept so many birds, and was such a sweet lady about it. He felt a surge of joy, and his work began. The birdcage was a sturdy midsection. Breaking off bits of metal from other robots, he smoothed the various shades of gold and began to bend them into curves. He bolted these together in an awkward fashion. The belly became the small, square birdcage, and he formed a back out of scrap parts bolted together in rough shades of copper and honey. The head was of a different make, having been an old shell skull before and needing only a few bolts around the neck to hold it in place. Ears were cut of leather over holes in the sides of the head. The creature’s face resembled that of an earless cat that had been smoothed and rounded. Its body was that of a just-below-medium dog. He gave it two fine eyes; both were a beady black, but the left one would light up a bright gold when the owner turned said light on. The front paws were similar to those of a feline, and the back paws were bigger and more canine. The legs were made of a mix of black wires, grey wires, and long metallic pieces. The front right leg even had a few green wires and a red wire. Down the back, like a visible spine, ran the cooling tube full of an odd bluish material that bubbled at random. Finally, he filled the hollow shell with a tangled mess of wiring and mechanics. Bolting on the final bit of metal where a tail should have been, but wasn’t, he looked at his creation and was proud. He tried everything to wake the creature, but it was all of no use. It lay dead and motionless on the table. Eventually he grew in anger again, and sent the precious creation flying across the room and into a corner. By chance, a corner with a faulty power outlet. A single spark was all it took. Anger and age play the villain here, though, and the man was dead on the floor within an hour. Heart attacks have never been kind. His wife and sons found him two days later when they brought him the usual week supply of food to keep him alive. As they took him away, a small creature went unnoticed hiding in the corner, its one eye lit up with chance life…
Pharaoh wrote:
I just wish the second paragraph wasn't so long. Anyway, here's my entry. Ending was rushed more than I wanted, because it wasn't going to fit your two-paragraph max.His mind had been gone a long time ago. It wasn’t the kind of thing you found surprising in a man of such age and stature. Sure, he seemed like a decent fellow at first. At one point in his life, he’d been married with children. His intellect took over and as more creations came about, he struggled to find the perfect thing. A creature capable of speech, motion, and even its own thought. He dove deeper into insanity, abandoned by his family when hope was lost that he might ever return. Two sons and his wife, gone in the blink of an eye, and he didn’t even notice. He lived and breathed work, never stopping unless his body forced him to. So many times had he just fallen asleep mid-step during a project. The man’s age was catching up to him fast, and now his grey hairs were withering out of his very head. “This day,” he declared to himself, “will be the one.” He hadn’t said those words in so long, one couldn’t doubt it. He pulled out a master plan from so long ago, something that he had put away because it had been impossible to offer any result. That is, until this day, when his mind had so far gone it didn’t matter anyway. He tried everything to find parts for his creation, but it was an impossible feat. All had been used before in failed attempts. Anger quickly overtook him, and he began to bash about what he had already crafted, sending bits shattering upon impact of the floor.
That is, until he saw the birdcage. His wife had kept so many birds, and was such a sweet lady about it. He felt a surge of joy, and his work began. The birdcage was a sturdy midsection. Breaking off bits of metal from other robots, he smoothed the various shades of gold and began to bend them into curves. He bolted these together in an awkward fashion. The belly became the small, square birdcage, and he formed a back out of scrap parts bolted together in rough shades of copper and honey. The head was of a different make, having been an old shell skull before and needing only a few bolts around the neck to hold it in place. Ears were cut of leather over holes in the sides of the head. The creature’s face resembled that of an earless cat that had been smoothed and rounded. Its body was that of a just-below-medium dog. He gave it two fine eyes; both were a beady black, but the left one would light up a bright gold when the owner turned said light on. The front paws were similar to those of a feline, and the back paws were bigger and more canine. The legs were made of a mix of black wires, grey wires, and long metallic pieces. The front right leg even had a few green wires and a red wire. Down the back, like a visible spine, ran the cooling tube full of an odd bluish material that bubbled at random. Finally, he filled the hollow shell with a tangled mess of wiring and mechanics. Bolting on the final bit of metal where a tail should have been, but wasn’t, he looked at his creation and was proud. He tried everything to wake the creature, but it was all of no use. It lay dead and motionless on the table. Eventually he grew in anger again, and sent the precious creation flying across the room and into a corner. By chance, a corner with a faulty power outlet. A single spark was all it took. Anger and age play the villain here, though, and the man was dead on the floor within an hour. Heart attacks have never been kind. His wife and sons found him two days later when they brought him the usual week supply of food to keep him alive. As they took him away, a small creature went unnoticed hiding in the corner, its one eye lit up with chance life…
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