Flow
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Jericho Antares
FAKKU Writer
Trying to formulate a story as quickly as possible to test rushed cohesion. Comments appreciated, welcomed, and encouraged. Now then it is 12:47 right now here in Illinois and I'm gonna get going on this....
(The piece is inspired by this song)Flow
"People are shaped by the world. Every now and again, though, the world is shaped by the people."
-'Viking' Graham
Week 1
A dark room is a common setting. The man in his twenties hunched over a computer screen is a fitting image for such a setting. On the screen was a mass of switches and dials each tuned with painstaking precision for the perfect sound. The sound the ragged-looking man had been looking months for. It was something he had never heard before.
The sound of change.
Finally pleased with the music that danced into his large white headphones he smiled and shut down his computer with a sigh. Tomorrow the much harder work began.
He pulled on a hoodie and denim jeans with groggy eyes and grabbed his MP3 player from the desk. The white headphones went on over his head and he stepped out into the morning rush hour of the city.
Shoulders smashed into him ruthlessly, the product of walking down the center of the street. He ignored the people he passed by and put on the song, the MP3 player's volume turned to the maximum. Annoyed businessmen on their cellphones glared at the audible music as they passed by him, but he paid them no mind. He kept walking.
Week 2
Three young faces sat around a table in front of a coffee shop, each of them looking at the man in the white headphones and then to their own MP3 players that now had the song. The download complete, they put on their own pairs of white headphones and struck out in different directions, walking down the center of the street head on with the volume maxed.
Week 8
It wasn't uncommon to see a pair of white headphones on both sides of just about any street. So many groups met and operated autonomously that no one even knew who started it anymore. The white headphone-clad groups simply spread, and the song was rampant on the net. Somewhere along the way its uploader also added lyrics.
The lyrics were shaped by the song. The lyrics spoke of change.
Week 13
The first arrest was made for disturbing the peace, a man with white headphones being shoved into a police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. The pedestrians all around look on silently. Some with satisfaction, others with distaste.
Sales of white headphones of all styles skyrocket in major producers.
Week 29
A full-scale crackdown has begun in the city, with police raids frequent. Conservative media stations warn of the spread of the song to other cities, along with the prophecy of a nationwide movement.
Liberal media tags the groups as extremists taking their movement too far using the wrong methods. The prominent figures of the movement have transcended media spin, and are issued arrest warrants. They become the most wanted people in the city.
Week 35
Officer shot and killed in a raid of a movement figure. Flow Movement marked as a terrorist cell. Sale of white headphones restricted in Executive Order citing Homeland Security as the purpose.
Flow Movement cells active in all major cities.
Week 46
Small-scale gunfights erupting in major cities between flow movement and police. White headphones marked as reason to fire on sight.
Police raids of residences in search of white headphones spike.
President urged to declare state of emergency.
Week 52
National Guard deployed to all cities on the east coast. Flow Movement goes silent as martial law is established.
Week 53
M1A2 Abrams tank destroyed by home-made plastic explosive. Flow Movement claims responsibility for action. Neighborhoods infamous for Flow support quarantined and raided.
The last active mirror to acquire the song is shut down by the government. Search engines screened for use of the song's name.
Year 4
A man with a long beard and bags under his eyes sits across the room from the former president, whose hand are bound in front of him. A smile creeps across his face and chuckles, then leaves the room.
I realized as I was writing this that I reverted to more of a newspaper headline type of narration and decided to kinda jump back at the end. I honestly think I miffed this exercise, but I can only say I'll try harder when I get some rest and clear my head.
EDIT: Total write time around 15-20 minutes.
(The piece is inspired by this song)Flow
"People are shaped by the world. Every now and again, though, the world is shaped by the people."
-'Viking' Graham
Week 1
A dark room is a common setting. The man in his twenties hunched over a computer screen is a fitting image for such a setting. On the screen was a mass of switches and dials each tuned with painstaking precision for the perfect sound. The sound the ragged-looking man had been looking months for. It was something he had never heard before.
The sound of change.
Finally pleased with the music that danced into his large white headphones he smiled and shut down his computer with a sigh. Tomorrow the much harder work began.
He pulled on a hoodie and denim jeans with groggy eyes and grabbed his MP3 player from the desk. The white headphones went on over his head and he stepped out into the morning rush hour of the city.
Shoulders smashed into him ruthlessly, the product of walking down the center of the street. He ignored the people he passed by and put on the song, the MP3 player's volume turned to the maximum. Annoyed businessmen on their cellphones glared at the audible music as they passed by him, but he paid them no mind. He kept walking.
Week 2
Three young faces sat around a table in front of a coffee shop, each of them looking at the man in the white headphones and then to their own MP3 players that now had the song. The download complete, they put on their own pairs of white headphones and struck out in different directions, walking down the center of the street head on with the volume maxed.
Week 8
It wasn't uncommon to see a pair of white headphones on both sides of just about any street. So many groups met and operated autonomously that no one even knew who started it anymore. The white headphone-clad groups simply spread, and the song was rampant on the net. Somewhere along the way its uploader also added lyrics.
The lyrics were shaped by the song. The lyrics spoke of change.
Week 13
The first arrest was made for disturbing the peace, a man with white headphones being shoved into a police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. The pedestrians all around look on silently. Some with satisfaction, others with distaste.
Sales of white headphones of all styles skyrocket in major producers.
Week 29
A full-scale crackdown has begun in the city, with police raids frequent. Conservative media stations warn of the spread of the song to other cities, along with the prophecy of a nationwide movement.
Liberal media tags the groups as extremists taking their movement too far using the wrong methods. The prominent figures of the movement have transcended media spin, and are issued arrest warrants. They become the most wanted people in the city.
Week 35
Officer shot and killed in a raid of a movement figure. Flow Movement marked as a terrorist cell. Sale of white headphones restricted in Executive Order citing Homeland Security as the purpose.
Flow Movement cells active in all major cities.
Week 46
Small-scale gunfights erupting in major cities between flow movement and police. White headphones marked as reason to fire on sight.
Police raids of residences in search of white headphones spike.
President urged to declare state of emergency.
Week 52
National Guard deployed to all cities on the east coast. Flow Movement goes silent as martial law is established.
Week 53
M1A2 Abrams tank destroyed by home-made plastic explosive. Flow Movement claims responsibility for action. Neighborhoods infamous for Flow support quarantined and raided.
The last active mirror to acquire the song is shut down by the government. Search engines screened for use of the song's name.
Year 4
A man with a long beard and bags under his eyes sits across the room from the former president, whose hand are bound in front of him. A smile creeps across his face and chuckles, then leaves the room.
I realized as I was writing this that I reverted to more of a newspaper headline type of narration and decided to kinda jump back at the end. I honestly think I miffed this exercise, but I can only say I'll try harder when I get some rest and clear my head.
EDIT: Total write time around 15-20 minutes.
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Xenon
FAKKU Writer
It obviously speaks a lot about an idea and how it changes to a trend if popularly felt. Then the evolution begins and forms it into a movement and into a rebellion searching for the change desired. Things go violent with a controlling government in an attempt to suppress such a diagnosed threat and silencing is the goal. In the end, the man waits long an hard after surviving to enact final vengeance, as it were.
Not too bad a rhetoric through storytelling due to chronological changes, if a bit drastic and dystopian. Still impressed in the speed finished. Pretty nice.
Not too bad a rhetoric through storytelling due to chronological changes, if a bit drastic and dystopian. Still impressed in the speed finished. Pretty nice.
