Date: 13 October 2020
Written For: Swinburne University (LIT10003 Reading and Writing Genre Texts)
Format: Writing Exercise
Genre: Cult Fiction, Fantasy
Word Count: 384
Author’s Note: From week 2 onwards in Reading and Writing Genre Texts, each week we were given a genre and a prompt and told to write 300 word stories and put them online on Canvas for discussion. Mine are speed drafts that I’ve touched up a little bit, so they’re less refined than they could have been, and most exceeded the word count. Because I’m a fantasy nerd, I combined the weekly genre with fantasy unless the genre was already fantastical or if fantasy was incompatible with the story I thought of.
For week 10, the genre was cult fiction, and the prompt was “confuse”. Hopefully how I executed on it isn’t too confusing. It was inspired by Pinocchio’s “I don’t know where he’s not” scene from Shrek 3.
Sam Huffer 