For Experima: "A Lesson Learned" (582 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2009-01-10 14:27:00 EST
Experima & I decided to work on a story together. She gave me all the ideas & details and I just filled in the extra words.
I had a fun time with it, although I can hardly imagine our lovely Experima really acting in this manner. Anyhow, happy birthday dear...
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He heard a sigh and roused himself more to open his eyes. Various candles lit everything in the studio, the dull yellow light glimmering not quite far enough to illuminate hidden corners and crevices. It was sufficient however, just minimal brightness to allow him to make out the room. It was a studio all right, an artist's haven, but...
"Roger. Roger, you've been such a disappointment."
He struggled in the chair and tried to look around. From what he could see, thick leather straps held him in place, each one fastened by steel hooks. His head was secured tight, his hands tied up by his face as if to protect it. Glancing down as best he could, he saw that he was dressed in a black robe, sat in a chair of some sort.
"Trite, Roger. Trite and cliché."
"Who... who's there? Please..."
"Let us go for a short stroll, my dear," came the voice behind him again.
"Professor?"
"Oh, it's 'Professor' now? Just a few hours ago, you were calling me 'Maddie.' But I assume that was the wine talking."
"What, what are you..."
"Come now," she responded as she began wheeling the chair about the room deeper.
"Van Gogh, Roger. He was a master, but his work has become so commercialized. Watches and ties and silly trinkets. No one appreciates his layering, his brush strokes. Tyler surely didn't."
They stopped and the chair abruptly spun so that Roger was facing the remains of Tyler.
"I used pigmented wax, you see. I applied it over a series of days, each application melting off a bit more of his skin. Eventually he died, of course, but he learned. He learned more about the truth in that artist's suffering and madness than what he put forth in that comic strip he called a thesis."
"Ah... ah Jesus fuck! My god, Professor..."
"And Gretchen, hmmm... what a waste! While her study of Seurat was both ground-breaking and accurate, her own dive into pointillism was an atrocity. As you can plainly see here, I laced each needle with a particularly toxic ink when teaching her about precision and patience."
Roger wept as he was wheeled around the room.
"Dali? Salvador Dali? Oh, that couldn't be allowed! With the proper use of a meat grinder and some bracing tools, Nicholas found out how much of a bore the Surrealism movement was. Now, he did scream... which brings me back to you."
She whipped the chair around to face him finally. With her slender build and long blonde hair, she was fancy of many students in the graduate Art Department. But now, her beauty masked by a look of rage, Professor Madelyn Experima looked little more than the demonic creations in her studio.
"Munch!" she roared. "Edvard Munch? Of all the painting in all of history, you choose The Scream to try and emulate? How did you even make it out of your under-graduate degree?"
"I... I'm sorry..." wept Roger.
"Every year," she continued, "Every year I have one. One who just isn't cut out for the program. One who doesn't deserve to continue on in art! At least not as the artist, Roger... at least not as the artist..."
"Please," Roger begged as she brought the clippers over.
She sighed deeply as she began shaving his head. "No, it's better this way. And think; you'll live on as art! In the image of that which you so beloved."
His hair shaved off, the Professor shaved his eyebrows, too. She then began to affix the thin needles into his eyelids, prying and holding them open. Tears and blood droplets mixed freely, but he could barely turn his head, and to do so would cause blindness. Four. She placed four small needles into each eye.
"God, oh God..." sobbed Roger.
"You should feel some sense of justice here, young man!" she spat as she drew out thicker needles. "Had you been more driven and inspired, a more pure artist, you wouldn't be here."
Yanking his mouth open, she crammed an iron bar there. She used it long enough to insert ten thick needles, each one tasting bitter. Roger's tongue lolled at the needles and he almost vomited. The Professor pulled the iron bar out and let his mouth relax onto the points.
"The paralyzing agent should take effect almost immediately. Not that it will dull the pain any..."
"Munch!" she swore again and she hurled the iron bar across the room, the sound of breaking bones in the distance. "I hope you realize that I'll have to move on now. Four is my limit at a school."
Professor Experima strolled out of the room, but stopped by the door.
"You think about this. You think about how you've desecrated the graduate program here for others pursuing their MFA's. And maybe if you've thought hard enough, when I come back I won't staple gun your fingers to your skull."
The Professor flipped off the lights to her basement studio and slammed the door. Taking the steps, she shook out of hair and untucked her blouse. She felt slightly better but dreaded the task ahead; undergrad artist statements.
User Reviews
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-01-16 17:56:17 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
ugh
Submitted by woolybob (user info) at 2009-01-16 17:09:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Sweet, sweet jesus. I tip my hat to you. If it twas a movie I would own it. Pure, tasteful genius. B E A U tiful!
Submitted by sage104 (user info) at 2009-01-13 12:37:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well I liked it.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2009-01-11 00:14:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
diary of a kaote - that series
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-11 00:11:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Nah, it's cool Crystle.
But... kaos krew???
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2009-01-11 00:03:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm not 13 anymore, crystle. :)
pic was taken on a mac at work, then i manipulated it so it was quite dark...my eyelashes are real too...i don't know why i look so freckly and false eyelashy, but it came out pretty interesting.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2009-01-10 23:47:30 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
no offense, experima (btw, you are decidedly older than your last pic here...)
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2009-01-10 23:41:02 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Ok, I couldn't finish this, but I'm slightly dissapointed in the quality. Seriously, how many times can you use repeatition? And the word choice 'minimal brightness' is a touch awkward
this just isn't anywhere in the same league as the first stories of yours 4 years ago - write more about your kaos krew (totally forgotten what you call them, but I'm sure you know)
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-01-10 23:25:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by NintendoCzar (user info) at 2009-01-10 21:50:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I can't say anything without sounding stalker-ish, so I'll just say this:
Experima, I want to kidnap you. There, that sounded okay.
Submitted by Mr.Plecko (user info) at 2009-01-10 20:31:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
sad, didn't read it, she will never fuck you.
Submitted by SilvrWolf (user info) at 2009-01-10 17:31:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Pretty cool, but so much more could've been done with this. I don't what it is... it just seemed forced and flat in some sections.
+2 anyway, though, just because I can.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-10 17:16:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
BOY! am i happy now, all i needed was a good reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
simple things and all that
im currently staring at a candle burning, through a pint glass, it looks wonderful
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:26:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hmmm...
would rreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! help?
perhaps a life affirming poem from your favourite uber user?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:25:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i dunno, im so bored. really bored, so bored im thinking of teaching animals how to use microwaves....again
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:22:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
wtf are you talking about, ei?
my comments on this?
the first thing i copied and pasted really made me lol.
the seocnd thing evened the rating to about where i thought it needed to be and offered a little bit of advice, i.e., kaos_king is the sloppiest self editor around.
that doesn't make his stories 'bad', though they usually aren't to my taste, it's just something he needs to address because it distracts the readers attention from the tale. heck, he'll admit as quick as anyone that he is a shitty proofreader.
the dig at bubba just happened to fit in nicely with my advice.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:15:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
scourgey whats up? has someone gotten your intraweb panties in a twist?
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:14:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
and, as usual, you need a good proofread.
i hear bubba offers editing services for people whose assholes he uber-tongues.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-10 16:10:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:46:37 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I was thinking the same thing too, but with a different rating.
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:36:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2009-01-10 19:29:27 GMT (#)
Ranking: 2
You.....you realize she's still not going to fuck you, right? '
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I was thinking the same thing but method filled in all the words
lol
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:47:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
This didn't do much for me, I know ubersite doesn't take kindly to longer posts, but I think immediately jumping into the "stroll" part with all that death and such without any kind of suspense or ambiguity to lead up to it kind of made it boring (for me).
"Tears and blood droplets mixed freely"
For whatever reason, the fact that it wasn't written as "droplets of blood" bothered me. Trivial, and purely aesthetic preference on my part I suppose, but true. There were other such descriptions that didn't tickle my fancy either, but I don't remember them.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:46:37 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I was thinking the same thing too, but with a different rating.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:36:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2009-01-10 19:29:27 GMT (#)
Ranking: 2
You.....you realize she's still not going to fuck you, right? '
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I was thinking the same thing but method filled in all the words
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:22:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
im bored!!
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-01-10 15:14:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2009-01-10 19:29:27 GMT (#)
Ranking: 2
You.....you realize she's still not going to fuck you, right?
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Fucking LOL
Happy Birthday Experima xxx
Submitted by JustARide (user info) at 2009-01-10 14:49:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2009-01-10 14:39:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
:)
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-10 14:31:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Haha, yes Method.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2009-01-10 14:29:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You.....you realize she's still not going to fuck you, right?