9/11 Short Story

You spy with your possibly (or-possibly-not-so) little eye, a YOUNG MAN who happens to be asleep at the moment. The CLOCK that stands next to this man’s bed has just struck twelve, though whether it’s the night or the afternoon, the clock doesn’t bother with. It’s job is simply to tell the time and it feels that it’s doing that just fine enough for now. But the beams of sunlight shining through the window solve this problem for you. This young man should’ve been awake hours ago, it seems.

-Wake the boy up

It’s been made perfectly clear that this is a young man, though it will be said again for reinforcement, since you’ve shown you need it. There currently is a YOUNG MAN who just so happens to be asleep at the moment.

There, now let’s try that again.

But you give it a shot anyways.

The ALARM CLOCK will go off in around five minutes.

-Give this man a name

Chances are this man already has a name, though there’s no harm in guessing with those five minutes to burn.

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Bedraggled Raccoon

Although that’s got a nice ring to it, this man is by no means bedraggled and definitely not a raccoon! Do we need to go through the ‘young man’ talk again?

-Look around room

You take a closer look at what is in this young man’s room.

There is ONE (1) YOUNG MAN, currently asleep. There is ONE (1) BED There are TWO (2) WINDOWS, one currently open. There is ONE (1) DRESSER There is ONE (1) ALARM CLOCK, currently set to go off at 12:05 There is ONE (1) DOOR, presumably leading to the rest of the house.

-Alarm Clock: Go off

In all of your looking around, five minutes have passed, and the alarm is now shouting at everything and everyone that passes by the blunt, loud beeping emitting from its speaker.

The (now groggy) young man looks incredibly confused about the sudden beeping coming from beside