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**SPOILER ALERT!**
**The following work of fiction contains major spoilers from the endings of both "Life, the Universe, and Everything" and "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.**
The Challenge: Add one more paragraph to the ending of the last book I read.
The Set Up: Arthur and Fenchurch have traveled the galaxy to a planet that has God's Final Message to His Creation written on it. They stumble upon Marvin the Robot, but he's traveled time so much that his circuits are about to die. Arthur and Fenchurch drag Marvin to The Message so he can see it before he dies. The message? "We apologize for the inconvenience."
The Actual Last Paragraphs:
"I think," he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, "I feel good about it."
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings.
My Last Paragraph(s):
When Arthur and Fenchurch returned to the entrance of the Great Red Plain, they returned the scooter, and surprisingly managed to sell Marvin for scrap metal; presumably to build more scooters for the non-devouts that wished to make the return journey. Arthur debated if they should have done something a bit more ceremonial with Marvin's body, perhaps bury it with some sort of funeral service, but then again, he never very much cared for the robot; and he certainly never cared much for Arthur. Marvin probably would have done the same exact thing, if the situation was reversed.
Fenchurch seemed a bit appalled by Arthur's cold regard for a robot she somehow managed to bond with during their tiring trip. So, before they left the scooter return stall Arthur did give a pathetic eulogy about Marvin. Nothing terribly exciting: he was arrogant, condescending, whiny, depressing, and downright gloomy, but he did manage to keep the murderous residents of Krikkit from destroying the galaxy, nay, the whole universe, so that was something.
Fenchurch nodded that Arthur did well, and tucked herself under his arm as they walked out of the burning plains.
"Alright, so, now what should we do?" Arthur said as he adjusted the Electronic Thumb Ford had given him before departing.
Fenchurch shrugged. "I could go for meeting a few new people. That was rather nice. Any ideas?"
"Well," said Arthur, "There was this one flying house party. I wonder if it's still going."
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The Elevator 5
"As I said, we're not entirely sure where they are. All we know is that they're stuck." Phoebe explained once more to a hysterical Olga into the phone. "Please calm down, Olga. Everything will be fine."
"We...we must call the police! Or the National Guard! And the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, everyone! We need help!" Olga cried hysterically on the other line.
Again, Phoebe held the phone away from her ear, looking over at Gerald as helplessly as Phoebe Heyerdahl could look. Gerald just shook his head and patted her on the shoulder sympathetically. With a little smile of gratitude, Phoebe held the phone back to her ear and spoke into it
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The Elevator 2
"HEY! LET US OUT! OPEN THE DOORS!"
"HELP US!"
For what seemed like hours, they pounded their fists against the elevator doors, seemingly unheard by the outside world. Somehow they didn't notice the "Out Of Order" sign posted near the elevator, and as a result, faced its malfunction of getting stuck between the first and second floor. And no one seemed to hear their cries for help.
Arnold stopped pounding on the doors since his hands were beginning to hurt, and went over to the key pad, trying out the emergency phone. Holding it to his ear, and clicking on the hang-up pad, he was dismayed to find that the phone was also dead.
"LET US OUT D
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The Elevator 3
How much time had passed? An hour? Two hours? By now Helga wasn't even sure how long it had been. All she knew was that she and Arnold hadn't spoken a word for the past...who-knows-how-long. She wasn't sure if Arnold had the time on him, and wasn't even sure if she should ask. If she did that, it would mean breaking the silence, and then TALKING to him. Now granted, deep down she loved nothing more than to hear his sweet angelic voice floating to her ears, but in this kind of circumstance, that wasn't the best idea.
Well, he wouldn't exactly call her out on her secret if she simply asked what time it was. Asking "Hey what time is it?" didn't
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So this is a bit different than my other challenges. My buddy Phfylburt challenged me to "write the next paragraph for the last book you read," so, in other words, extend the ending of the book by a paragraph. Me being me, I couldn't neatly wrap everything up in one paragraph after chopping the clean edge off of the original work, so it's 6 brief paragraphs. It was tricky to try to wrap up something that was already concluded, but that's the nature of writing CHALLENGES, I guess, right?
Either way, it's a super short and sweet prompt, but it was all that I had time for.
Anyway, as can be expected from this challenge, there are spoilers. The book I continued is "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Some of what I wrote does elude to the ending of the previous book "Life, the Universe, and Everything" as well.
Technically speaking, SL&TFATF didn't end with the sentence "Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings." There was an epilogue to the story that I TECHNICALLY should have continued off from. However, the epilogue was completely disconnected and unrelated to the rest of the story (maybe a set up for the fifth book "Mostly Harmless"?), and concluded with the line "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." How do you continue anything off of that!? Let alone one last paragraph? So, I just went with the last line(s) of the actual plot....
Either way, it's a super short and sweet prompt, but it was all that I had time for.
Anyway, as can be expected from this challenge, there are spoilers. The book I continued is "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Some of what I wrote does elude to the ending of the previous book "Life, the Universe, and Everything" as well.
Technically speaking, SL&TFATF didn't end with the sentence "Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings." There was an epilogue to the story that I TECHNICALLY should have continued off from. However, the epilogue was completely disconnected and unrelated to the rest of the story (maybe a set up for the fifth book "Mostly Harmless"?), and concluded with the line "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." How do you continue anything off of that!? Let alone one last paragraph? So, I just went with the last line(s) of the actual plot....
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