I read this from Matched, describing a "romantic meal out,"
and decided on this topic. Basically, come up with a paragraph or longer that completely captures how fucked up a society is. Bonus points if you make it sound positive.
I'll try...
(So yeah, social credit system, 70% self-employment tax while people who are friendly but don't work get free money, and people are put to death for having mean tweets)
The children stacked up their toy blocks, giggling happily. A girl leaned on her tippy toes with a mischievous smile, sticking a white block atop of the messy, haphazard tower. With a click of hard surface against hard surface, she fell onto the wet ground giggling, light brown pigtails jangling. She tugs at the next piece, though it is super stuck like all of the other ones.
In the playground that is the beach, two young boys chased each other around the lot, laughing all the while. The first boy, a mischievous little squirt with a buzz-cut, stumbles through the pale-tansand of the beach. "Can't get me," he shouts, even as he pushes himself up from a fall with tired arms, black hands contrasting the lightly-colored sand particles.
The other boy is right behind him though, his freckled cheeks in a big ol' smirk. The other boy brushes his shaggy mullet out of his face, and says "Iiii'm going to get you!"
"Nuh-uh!" the squirt says back.
The other boy's feet can be heard squelching much faster, toes easily finding traction in dark red mud as he runs right behind the stumbling kid.
A few other kids, a trio of toddlers times three, sit on their mother's laps. They are extremely hungry, but mom's a little distracted. Thankfully for them, they find some food mom squirreled away.
The pigtailed girl making her block tower was
finally able to tug free the next piece thanks to the toddlers.
A bunch of teenagers asleep on the many slides all around the vast playground get their buttcheeks played with like drums.
"Haven't they heard of beds?" a gremlin of a girl giggles to her similarly musically-inclined friends. All of them had callouses from playing so long!
"We're going to set a world record for longest buttdrumming, right guys?" the blond-haired six year old follows up behind his ten thousandth sibling, cheering her and rest of his siblings on.
The ten or so nod affirmatively, wiping the suuuper blistered palms off on their jeans, and the snoozing teenagers shorts, and anywhere they can get their
icky hands aaall clean! They shiver in disgust, prancing around but laughing at each other all the same in youthful camaraderie. The girl chortles especially loudly at the kids with white shirts now unfortunately stained yellow. Her dreadlocks bounce like rubber, thick, white balls strung like beads keeping the braids pretty.
The moist, large spheres had shiny, pretty rings and very red things inside of them, and made a funky, funny thudding against each other when she moved! It was funny!
A class clown of a brother joked that his oldest sibling "lent him a hand. But he would much rather his big sister lend him an ear."
His twin brother, no sense of humor - LOL! - gave him his olive-toned ear.
They paused, and looked at each other...
Laughter resounded in their plastic tunnel, an echoey part of the playset that was super fun to say "HELLO!, HeLLo! hello! hello.
hellooo...."
... It didn't actually make any echoes, but it was fun to pretend it was a cave! The pitter-patter of blood helped add to the ambiance, like dripping water! They were super adorable when they did it too!
The class clown left the tunnel and twin at top speed, holding a bunch of squiggly things in his hand.
"HAHA! ~ I GOT YOUR NOSE AND YOUR TOES AND EVERYTHING BELOWS!" he sang, jumping over a series of people sleeping face-first in the sand. A fleet of kids had arranged the naughty parents into an obstacle course.
"Giiive theeeem baaaack!" cried the twin. "Mooooom!" he calls out, sounding like he had gargled sticky slime. Must have been all of the liquid running down his face. He finds her.
"He stole my-" he sniffs "-he stole m-my ears... and my nose...-" he sniffs again, snot escaping his face "-and everyth-th-thing belows." A shuddering breath moves his tiny frame, followed by a minor fit of choking on all of the liquid pouring from every facial orifice.
"And-and-and..." he ashamedly starts "he-he-he-" a huge sniffle but the gushing doesn't stop "-made me wet myself." A big stain on his swim shorts is evident, and red liquid pours down the inside of his shorts.
"It's n-not my fault though. He stole everything belows," he says confidently.
He shuffles in the red mud.
"Mom?"
