The Four Horsemen at IHOP.
Jul. 5th, 2006 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ghostdriveAs you can probably infer from the subject line, this post is about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at an IHOP. Before anyone thinks I've gone crazy, here's what I'm talking about:
Last fall, in one of my classes (the one that caused me to have a minor hysterical fit, if you can remember that post), there was this boy who told us about this short story he wanted to write using the before mentioned concept. The Four Horsemen, having tired of doing whatever it was they were doing in this particular story, decided that they had the munchies and IHOP seemed like the place to go. The rest of the story pretty much revolved around them having some random conversation while fellow diners attempting to ignore that they were, in fact, dining in the presence of Death (plus his comrades).
What I particularly liked about his story is that each of the Horsemen had personality traits/characteristics related to what they represented. For instance, Famine ate and ate and ate without getting full; Pestilence was a super stinky individual that no one wanted to sit near (thus all tables around them were unoccupied); and Death was constantly at risk of killing people (accidentally, of course, since he was off the clock) through his touch. As for War... I don't really remember correctly, but I think he spoke very loudly due to him being partially deaf.
I'm unsure if he ever actually wrote the story (I think he was more interested in taking part in Del Mar's poetry slams), but seriously it would have been the most AWESOME THING EVER.
Last fall, in one of my classes (the one that caused me to have a minor hysterical fit, if you can remember that post), there was this boy who told us about this short story he wanted to write using the before mentioned concept. The Four Horsemen, having tired of doing whatever it was they were doing in this particular story, decided that they had the munchies and IHOP seemed like the place to go. The rest of the story pretty much revolved around them having some random conversation while fellow diners attempting to ignore that they were, in fact, dining in the presence of Death (plus his comrades).
What I particularly liked about his story is that each of the Horsemen had personality traits/characteristics related to what they represented. For instance, Famine ate and ate and ate without getting full; Pestilence was a super stinky individual that no one wanted to sit near (thus all tables around them were unoccupied); and Death was constantly at risk of killing people (accidentally, of course, since he was off the clock) through his touch. As for War... I don't really remember correctly, but I think he spoke very loudly due to him being partially deaf.
I'm unsure if he ever actually wrote the story (I think he was more interested in taking part in Del Mar's poetry slams), but seriously it would have been the most AWESOME THING EVER.
