Deus Ex Machina Stories

Here are some stories from my students written while playing Deus Ex Machina (see previous post). All stories are published "as is". I made no changes to grammar, spelling, etc. (keep in mind that they had to write quickly, and didn't have time to proof read). The underlined portions are the parts I told them they had to put in their stories (again, see previous post)

1. When I woke up this morning there was no sign of my trousers. It was very late last night, I think, I was drunk. In the morning I went into the bathroom and washed my face. After that I looked out of the window, and suddenly I saw a angry polar bear running away with my trousers in his mouth.

When I came back into the bedroom a man stand there witha plate of brownies in his hands. I wondered, but I was so hungry, that I eat one, they tasted very well (edit: this should have said "The brownies tasted sooo good!"). Suddenly the man wanted to kiss me, because he thought I am his girl friend. I hit him and ran away down the street. During I was running down the street, without my trousers, I met a good friend and told him what happened this morning. I said: "It is hard to believe, but this story about the strange man and the angry polar bear is absolutely true."

My friend laughed at me and went away. I walked on and suddenly a cute little chihuahua ran to me and bit me in my leg (edit: this should have read "The cute little chihuahua barked all night"). It hurt so much. But the funniest thing about this was that I suddenly saw the angry polar bear, who had stolen my trousers. So I caught him and killed him with my high-heels, now I was happy to have my trousers again.

Note: I really like the changes this group made to my text... it's more important for them to have fun writing than for them to worry about using my cue cards verbatim.

2. Yesterday we went to the zoo. Suddenly a black cat with green eyes crossed our way. The cat stopped and looked at us. We ran away because we were frightened of the eyes of the cat. We were looking for a hiding place, when we saw a treehouse. So we climbed up the tree and hid in the tree house. We stayed there until midnight when suddenly the cat looked through the window. The cat looked so scary in the pale moonlight that we ran away again. At a bench we stopped and found a bag with brownies. We were so lucky and ate them immediately. The brownies were sooo good! The funniest thing about it was that the brownies were black with green chocolate chips. One of us had eaten too many brownies and so his stomach exploded and he was dead. And that was the last time anyone ever saw him.