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The Nasal Cavity
By acme
02 June 2008

Comedy prose.

I'm not too sure what to put here... erm, I like the idea of the four horsemen of the apoclypse; I've always thought theirs a rather nice family set up, of sorts.  I have written a number of stories about them, and have a bit of a soft spot for War.   

As far as the item below goes, it's just a mini-write, which will probably be developed into sketch at some point, or added into one of my other ongoing sagas here:

http://www.writing.com/main/portfolio.php?folder_id=1332705

I would love to relearn my native English, as writing on an American site, wonderful as it is, has cost me a great deal of double letters and 'u's.  Oh, and I'm very confused about 'tires' too.

Thanks to Phil for popping my review cherry and pointing me in the direction of 'where things are put' - it's appreciated, but as I haven't a clue how to get in touch with you, I'm saying thank you here Smile


Pestilence was sweating profusely.  However, it had nothing to do with the new strain of bird flu he was currently incubating. 


"He's gonna hit the roof when he wakes up,"  he whined, absentmindedly squeezing a pustule on his hand.


The other two men rolled their eyes and went back to their thought-intensive task.  The voluminous firey-headed man tried to delicately manipulate a polished piece of ivory bone into its corresponding socket.


"You've got it on backwards!  He's gonna go flippin' mental.  Face it: we're dead."


"Shut up, Pestilence."  The other, painfully thin man known as Famine shot at him. 

"That kind of attitude is not helping.  Besides, I don't remember you finding fault with the idea at the time."

The huge shoulders of War heaved with the steady build up of imaginative laughter, crescendoing in thunderous rapture.  Now it was the turn of Famine and Pestilence to roll their eyes, until their feisty friend let them share the joke.  "We're not dead!"  He explained between snorts, with tear filled eyes.  "His lordship is dead!"


Famine's nostrils flared with carefully controlled impatience.  "Yes.  Quite.  Now do you think you could be a dear, and pass me his femur?  I think I have the knee cap here."


"Oh, alright."  War passed the bone to Famine.  "No need to sulk because you lost."


"I did not lose."


"Ooh, you little liar - you know I won with the half strike on the split!"


Famine blushed, calculating his odds of getting through dinner without an argument on the finer points of the ten pin bowling rule book, but Pestilence was pointing a crooked finger at the 3D jigsaw of Death's cadaver.  He was coming round, and they hadn't finished rebuilding him yet.


War glanced under the dinner table and around the long dining room.  "Where's his head, then?" 


"Oh, gawd.  I think we left it in the gutter.  Make yourself useful, Pestilence and go and fetch it, there's a good sport."


"Unlike some..."  War muttered, while the spotty youth sidled out the front door to look for the skull/bowling ball.


Pestilence picked him up and carried him in to the others.  Two flaring pits of hell burned in the empty eye sockets of a very miffed Death and a muffled anger resonated throughout the house.

"When you've mmm-quite finished, Pestilence.  Could you remove your mmm-fingers from my eyes and mmm-nose?  I think we all need a little chat about personal space, and mmm-boundaries."

Reviews

Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 2nd June 2008
I enjoyed this, Acme. Some well paced banter that worked a gentle humour. 
 
It almost came through at one point: one of the horsemen sounded a little camp - perhaps you could have made a little more of this and given the others more of a definite 'voice.' 
 
Liked it. 
 
Phil. 
 
BTW: Comic prose is usually put in short stories. Doesn't really matter - but some get a little sniffy. This section is usually used for comic scripts.

Written by Turquoise-Tangerine (95 comments posted) 4th June 2008
Nice idea, mate. 
 
I thought some of the character discriptions could have been cut out to allow the reader to form his/her own opinion of how the riders would/could look. 
 
- The voluminous firey-headed man - 
- The other, painfully thin man - 
 
I enjoyed the casual asides of lines such as:- Asentmindedly squeezing a pustule on his hand.  
 
Generally enjoyable, 
Turk. 
 
 

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