My First Project

Yesterday, I was speaking to a friend of mine.  I told him about my new blog, and what I had hoped to accomplish through it.

I was ready to start writing on here, but had come face-to-face with the problem that prompted this project in the first place.  WRITER'S BLOCK.

I proceeded to ask him to give me a prompt that I could just write a short story on, but he was not able to come up with something on such short notice.  After talking for a few minutes, he gave me a brilliant idea.

A week or so beforehand, he had recommended a book to me called Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.  One of the characters in this book was a writer who went by the name of Kilgore Trout.  Mr. Trout wrote a ton of novels, and  the ideas behind them all were totally ridiculous.  In the book, all that was said about these novels were the title, and a very short description of the story.  My friend suggested that I take one of these fictional novels and turn it into a short story, and that is exactly what I decided to do.

I found a synopsis online on one of his books called The Smart Bunny. 

This is it!  "The leading character was a rabbit who lived like all the other wild rabbits, but who was as intelligent as Albert Einstein or William Shakespeare. It was a female rabbit. She was the only female leading character in any novel or story by Kilgore Trout.

She led a normal female rabbit's life, despite her ballooning intellect. She concluded that her mind was useless, that it was a sort of tumor, that it had no usefulness within the rabbit scheme of things.

So she went hippity-hop, hippity hop toward the city, to have the tumor removed. But a hunter named Dudley Farrow shot and killed her before she got there. Farrow skinned her and took out her guts, but then he and his wife Grace decided that they had better not eat her because of her unusually large head. They thought what she had thought when she was alive--that she must be diseased."

I certainly hope that you enjoy my take on this story.