"Three Categories" ~ a five-minute #freewrite
Cassie rubbed at her eyes and groaned. She was so tired. She'd hardly had a wink of sleep the night before and now she had to get ready for work. On a Sunday, no less. What kind of depraved mad-man expected people to work on a Sunday?
Heaving herself out of bed, she stumbled down the hallway and into the kitchen.
"Good morning, contestant!"
Cassie jerked awake and leapt back. There was a man in the kitchen. Tall and skinny, as brown as an over-tanned leather Karen, with a shocking wave of white hair that tapered forward over his brows. As though she hadn't reacted with shock, the man threw back his head and laughed. "There are three categories for you to choose from."
Categories? What was this man on about... furthermore, who the hell was he and why was he in her kitchen?
"Pardon me?" She scurried against the wall opposite the man, wrenched open the cutlery drawer, and retrieved a large cleaver. "What the hell are you doing in my kitchen?"
"I am presenting you with your options, of course!" He spun about with a flourish, turning his back to her, and faced the upper cupboards. "Are you ready to hear the categories?"
"I'll give you one category and only one option," Cassie muttered. "Get out of my house."
"Please don't speak until after I've offered you your categories." The man shook his head, then whipped open one of the cupards. "Category number one! Oh, my, my. And what a category it is. Alfredo!"
"How is that a category? That's a food." Cassie flung her arms, and the cleaver, into the air. "Why am I entertaining this? Get out!"
"It is a food, indeed! Aren't you an observant one?" There was a smile in his voice as he reached for the next cupboard and pulled it open. "Category number twooooo... is a trip to New Zealand!"
"Travel sounds like an appropriate category. For a gameshow. That's on the telly and not in my kitchen."
"Food and travel!" The man exclaimed. "Are you ready to hear what lies behind CATegory number three?"
"Not particularly," she mumbled.
"Are you ready... for..." He opened another cupboard with such force he wrenched it from its hinges. Cassie winced. There went her bond. "A cat!"
In a flash of smoke the man disappeared, the cupboards closed themselves, the broken door of the broken cupboard mended itself, the knife flew out of her hand and returned itself to the drawer with a slam, and a small fluffy kitten appeared on the dining table.
"Aww!" Cassie instantly forgot the intrusion and ran over to the kitten, cuddling it against her chest. "Just what I've always wanted."
Hullooo! It's day 1529 of @mariannewest's five-minute #freewrite challenge. The prompt for today is -- three categories -- and the above is what I came up with after I fixed up my original five minutes of writing.
You can find today's challenge and join the Freewriteeeeerrrrrsssss!!!!! at the following link:
https://peakd.com/hive-161155/@mariannewest/day-1529-5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-prompt-three-categories
My original writing that took five minutes is below:
Until next time!
The third CATegory was a bit of a nice surprise.
How do you write those 5 minutes freewrites eludes me. Lol
It would take me an hour just to come up with an idea, I can't "just start writing" like that. And then another hour writing it. 😁
It's difficult! I find it hard to switch my brain off, or even turning it on, sometimes my mind is just blank, devoid of everything. And I have a lot of distractions around me. Sometimes I just write one sentence in that 5 minutes and give up. This one kind of just came out. Three categories! So in my head there was a gameshow host, and I have no idea how or why he ended up randomly in someone's kitchen, haha.
Usually in the 5 minutes I get some dialogue and a few sentences down. Then another 10-15mins just adding and enhancing things. I was actually a lot better at this when I very first started... now I try too hard and can't stop, haha. 😒
This was my very first one!
LOL, now I'm re-reading old ones. This one is great!!! 🤣
Sorry, babbling.
The kitchen thing was hilarious. It's how he left what was more intriguing. Reminds me of how a genie or a dwarf in some game appears while skilling, gives you options then disappesrs leaving behind some weird item in your inventory. 😂
I read the 2 you referred to, I don't think you're getting any "less good" at this.
But a neon orange sweater would beat all else any day. 🤣
Haha! It is like a videogame NPC and you've just fulfilled his quest objective!! that's great. 😂
hehehehe this is hilarious!!!! hmmm how many of these instances have happened and then just poof - the story rewrote itself and there we have something we wanted.
or found! LOL
ahaha by the way - i'm reading your story... and thoroughly enjoying it - but I got sick over the past few days and that has wormed its way into my reading time LOLOL
but I hope tonight or tomorrow I can get back to the other Kat story! hhahahaha
Haha! 😖 <-- that's me wincing in terror when you get to the bit that I have to hurriedly skip through because I'm too embarrassed I even wrote it, LOL! 😂🤣
😊 I hope you feel better soon!!!
Oh... You mean the part that I can't wait for???
Yes.nice..this one!!!
Can't wait
Cannot wait.
Hahahahahahahahahhahahaa
Haha!! 😖😆 Yes, that part!! 🤣