Michael Cirino & Amanda Glass

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Geronimo is a green grape, happily living with his family in a grape vineyard. One day, he stumbles across a horrible sight. His family is being slaughtered and turned into champagne by a toothsome but lumpy and deformed grape. She asks, “Are you thirsty?” As Geronimo watches in horror as his innocent parents are crushed in a wine press, while the villainous grape stands on an operating platform to control the wine press. The grape calls on her giant human minion to gather Geronimo and his fellow grapes, ready to create the next batch.

Geronimo and the other grapes are tossed into the wine press, and the minion begins to stir and mash them with the press. Geronimo cowers in a crevice in the press between its wooden slits, safe from the carnage, but seeing it all. The other grapes are mashed to bits and turned into a liquid before his very eyes. Geronimo has to quickly escape before he’s fermented as well. He slams himself against the wine press’ cork, creating a hole for him to escape through.

He falls to the floor, some of his family’s innards spilling out with him. The mysterious grape’s minion calls in more giants, saying, “Now it’s time for the tasting part of the tour.” Geronimo is further disturbed as the giants sniff tall glasses of grape blood, before putting it in their mouths and swishing it around before spitting it back out. Geronimo cannot understand these barbaric actions.

He shouts at the other grape, asking how she could do such a horrible thing. She reveals that she is Geraldine, Geronimo’s third cousin twice removed, a deformed grape who, from her angle on the vine, could see Geronimo, though he could not see her. Due to her disfigurement, she was mocked by their family and, seeking revenge, she created the winery.

Geronimo notices a forklift with crates of champagne bottles and a running furnace, and he forms a plan to stop her.  He operates the forklift, positioning the bottles near the furnace.  As they heat up, their corks fly off with such speed and with the correct trajectory to hit the support beam of Geraldine’s operating platform.  The evil grape falls into the wine press and is mashed along with her relatives.

Geronimo leaves the winery, a changed man after the horrors he’s witnessed.  He runs away from his past and retires in California, becoming a crotchety old raisin.

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The random objects that we used were: cork

adjectives were: thirsty, innocent, and toothsome.

Our random conflicts were: loss of loved ones, character vs. environment, escape, character vs. character.

Michael Cirino & Amanda Glass
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Geronimo is a green grape, happily living with his family in a grape vineyard. One day, he stumbles across a horrible sight. His family is being slaughtered and turned into champagne by a toothsome, green beast in a blouse. The beast asks, “Are you thirsty?” As Geronimo watches in horror as his innocent parents are crushed in the wine press. The beast calls on its giant minion to gather Geronimo and his fellow grapes, ready to create the next batch.

Geronimo and the other grapes are tossed into the wine press, and the minion begins to stir and mash them with the press. Geronimo cowers in a crevice in the press between its wooden slits, safe from the carnage, but seeing it all. The other grapes are mashed to bits and turned into a liquid before his very eyes. Geronimo has to quickly escape before he’s fermented as well. He slams himself against the wine press’ cork, creating a hole for him to escape through.

He falls to the floor, some of his family’s innards spilling out with him. The minion calls in more giants, saying, “Now it’s time for the tasting part of the tour.” Geronimo is further disturbed as the giants sniff tall glasses of grape blood, before putting it in their mouths and swishing it around before spitting it back out. Geronimo cannot understand these barbaric actions.

As he’s watching in shock, two red grapes patrolling around the wine press shout at him. They are the Green Beast’s guards. They tackle him and bring him to the Green Beast’s inner sanctum, a pool table. The Beast mocks Geronimo, “You may have escaped, but you’ve seen my evil plan, so I may as well tell you it all before you join your family.” The Beast reveals that she is Geraldine, Geronimo’s third cousin twice removed, a deformed grape who, from her angle on the vine, could see Geronimo, though he could not see her. Due to her disfigurement, she was mocked by their family and, seeking revenge, she created the winery.

Geronimo notices a shoelace on the pool table, that has a broken aglet, in the shape of a shiv. Distraught he lunges at her with it, but she is evasive and he misses. She laughs and grabs a gargantuan weapon: a pool stick, challenging him to a game of pool. Geraldine chooses stripes, magnificently knocking all but one into the pockets, leaving the 13 and 8 balls for her second turn. Geronimo runs with all his might at the cue ball, lacking the proper utensil for pool. The ball ricochets off the table before finally hitting its first solid: Geraldine. She is flattened against the cue ball as it rolls into the pocket. Geronimo warily peers into the pocket, and finds only light green mush smeared on the white ball inside. His nightmare is over. He knocks the solids and the 8 ball in easily without an opponent. The guards are impressed and release him. He frees what is left of his family, and retires in California, drying up in his old age, becoming a raisin.
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The random objects that we used were: cork, blouse, shoe lace, and pool stick

Our random adjectives were: evasive, thirsty, magnificent, innocent, and toothsome.

Our random conflicts were: slaying of a kinsman unrecognized, loss of loved ones, character vs. environment, escape, character vs. character.

The Prankster Prince

A Prince set to inherit the throne was socially awkward and did not show emotion very well. He wore a spotted suit, which was the norm for royalty in their futuristic period. The exception to his emotions was when he made pranks. Near his fathers 75^th birthday he took him to the barnyard, as he had an appreciation for animals. The visit is actually a prank. A cybernetic cow at the barnyard helps him rig a giant vat of milk on a hoverpad to tip over on his father as he enters the doorway. The act of japery goes afoul and the entire hoverpad and all falls down, crushing his father. He is detained at the barn. The trial is held on the scene of the crime. Too embarrassed to admit his prank had failed, prince could not properly explain what he had been doing with the vat of milk. Half way through the trial he burst into tears. “You’ve been out pranked” his father bellowed, rising out a platform in the ground. The king had been arranging a prank back at his son the whole time. The cow was his accomplice helping to arrange it with a robot copy of himself switched in at the last minute. He finally got his son to display emotion in public.

Story 1

Type of Story: Role Reversal

Logline: A robot tries to find his destiny after loss.

Seven Sentence Story: There was a robot created for fastening on tires. There was an explosion at his plant and it was just able to escape. It now had no purpose. It tried to do other things to fulfill its directive. It started unfastening tires on cars in the street, but this was not appreciated. Next it started to do the same to street signs, which fell in the street and made people angry. Finally it was able to find it could open door handles. It found work being appreciated as a doorman.

Character Description: The robot is a yellow-orange car plant assembly robot.

Location and Time Period: Present day in a crowded city.

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Story 2

Type of Story: Quest and Journey

Logline: A vagrant takes an opportunity to bring some excitement into his life with the discovery of a spaceshuttle.

Seven Sentence Story: There is a homeless man living among a junk pile. He discovers a discarded space shuttle hull in it. He has dreams of space exploration and vows to get it working. He looks around for an engine nearby, but there is no fuel source. He trades in his old pocket watch to another vagabond for a fuel tank. He is finally able to get it to fly, but the engine fails once he breaks the atmosphere. He looks out at space, finally fulfilling his wish before he falls to what is presumably his death.

Character Descriptions: A man in a tattered orange t-shirt and cargo pants. An old woman in a stained blue-grey shroud.

Location and Time Period: 22^nd century on a trash heap at the edge of a large city

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Story 3

Type of Story: Rags to Riches

Logline: A scuba diver finds a mysterious object that she must know more about.

Seven Sentence Story: There is a scuba diver who looks for rare items. She finds a mysterious black pearl one day at the bottom of the seabed. She is convinced it came from the city of Atlantis. She becomes rich selling it but still wants to know more.  She asks a marine biologist for help but he will not listen to her. Finally she goes to a geologist. She leads her to a specific trench. It was the Kraken all along.

Character Descriptions: Woman in bright blue diving suit. Scientists in lab coats.

Location and Time Period: Present day on the edge of the Mediterranean.

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Story 4

Type of Story: Brain vs. Brawn

Logline: A caveman and adventurer from the future fight over control of a time machine.

Seven Sentence Story: There is a seemingly normal caveman. One day he sees a flash of light and a time traveler from the future appears. The caveman is curious and goes inside the time machine. The man from the future hurries in after him. Seven Sentence Story: The future person tries to stop him but the caveman panics and he keeps pressing the buttons. Finally the caveman is trapped, the future person has the controls and they land on a cruise ship in the 23^rd century.

Character Description: Hairy caveman in animal skins. Slender man in padded jumpsuit and visor helmet.

Location and Time Period: Starts in Neolithic times on the plains and moves around.

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Story 5

Type of Story: Love Stories

Logline: A worm craves companionship and he finds love in a surprising twist.

Seven Sentence Story: There once was a worm who desired companionship. He found something wriggling into the garden one day, getting his curiosity.  It spit water at him almost drowning him. He was about to go deeper into the ground but he felt something go into the ground, so he pursued it. A trowel cut him in half. Later two new worms were created from him. It was not looking for a female worm but a genetic clone of course, because worms are hermaphrodites.

Character Description: A pinkish banded earth worm.

Location and Time Period: Present day in a garden.

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Story 6

Type of Story: Good versus Evil

Logline: A woman sees a suspicious supernatural being and takes matters into her own hands.

Seven Sentence Story: There is a woman who is paranoid of monsters, wearing a tinfoil hat and garlic everywhere. One day she sees a man acting suspiciously. He has glowing eyes and sheds black feathers. She follows him and tries to spy on him. She sees more suspicious behavior and a bladed tongue. She plans a trap and kills him. It was her guardian angel all along.

Character Description: The protagonist wears a pantsuit. The antagonist dresses in dark clothing with lightly glowing eves. Looks like it is hiding something under clothes from the back.

Location and Time Period: Present day in downtown Cleveland.