Atmo – Assignment 1.5

I have a great story to tell you. It began long ago before the world was full of hate and distrust. Well it was long before humans. Atmo who was an entity without mass had been growing tired of floating from universe to universe, planet to planet when it came across Earth. At this time there was only early life and so it decided it might as well see where this life goes, like he had done many times before.

After patiently waiting, humans evolved. However, Atmo hadn’t remained patient. Many years had passed and the entity had grown isolated, desolate, and resented the creatures for taking so long. Atmo had planned on providing the newly formed beings with love, forethought and compassion but it changed its mind after a couple hundred million years had gone by. Waiting.

As the first humans were beginning to develop and expand the population, Atmo made a visit late one evening. Atmo floated up the river to a small enclosure that housed the new creatures. It walked up the beach and gazed down upon their sleeping faces only to be reminded of the innocence that it had wanted from the beginning.

So now Atmo was torn about what to do with the creatures. He had planned on killing them and then moving onto the next planet but that had also grown tired for him. What would another planet get Atmo? Atmo was about to attempt something it had never done before with any other life forces.

Atmo decided not to kill this creature but instead to instill it with both love and hate, forethought and impulse, compassion and resentment. It created the good and the bad in all human beings because Atmo wanted to watch the creatures kill themselves. Atmo did sometimes laughed to itself and wondered if the creatures wished it would take the story back (King 10).

Storytelling is something I feel I do a lot in my day to day yet hadn’t really realized that when I asked a few friends and family to listen. Most were surprised by the content as it is totally different from the usual stories I tell. One commented that it was just weird and obviously fictional. I explained a bit about what the class was about and a few things fell into place in terms of what King and Chamberlin were discussing in terms of stories becoming part of our lives. I certainly felt very passionate towards Atmo and its desire to destroy the human creature while my listeners were not quite as caught up in the story, at least that is what it felt like.

However, I was just surprised that I came up with a story that made some sense related to how evil came about. I struggled with that. It took me some time to even consider what I might write about but then I just managed to sit down and wrote it in about 20 minutes. Once it began flowing, it became like a story that filled itself in and worked itself out. I barely had to put much thought into it however, I do admit, one listener did make the ending better with regards to wanting to watch the creatures kill themselves. This tells me that ideas for stories are always great when bounced off others.

Works Cited

King, Thomas. The Truth about Stories. New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011. Print.

 

 

 

 

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