Have everything happen suddenly

(With thanks to Elmore Leonard)

Suddenly, the room went deathly quiet. Then, just as suddenly, the doctor spoke.
‘I’m suddenly not so sure about this,’ he said, suddenly. Just as he was saying this, he caught a sudden movement out of the corner of his eye. He span round just in time to see the sudden arrival of an unexpected figure. It was the soldier from the day before, suddenly limping in with blood on his hands. Suddenly, the doctor understood what had happened.
‘I feel suddenly... cold...’ the soldier suddenly whispered before suddenly collapsing. With quick, sudden movements of his expert but suddenly shaking hands, the doctor suddenly began to tend to the man’s wounds.
‘Nurse,’ he suddenly barked, ‘I need bandages and morphine. And make it sudden.’ Before he could suddenly save him, though, the soldier was suddenly dying in his arms. The doctor suddenly leaned in to hear his sudden last words.
‘Tell my wife...’ the soldier suddenly rasped, his breathing suddenly urgent and sudden. ‘Tell my wife... I suddenly... love her.’

20 comments:

  1. What a sudden turn of events this was!

    :-)

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  2. Reading the word "sudden" so many times broke my brain, causing me to read it as "sodden", making the passage even more bizarre.

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  3. Best line: "And make it sudden."

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  4. Augh! I suddenly can't take it anymore! D8

    That was truly and suddenly very disgusting.

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  5. eMonkey: Me too! Weird. And I LOL'd at "He span round."

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  6. Suddenly it all makes sense! Thank you!

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  7. I sudden deep rumble suddenly burst from throat.

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  8. I'm dyslexic. The sudden repetition of the word sudden suddenly made me sick to my stomach.
    I suddenly realized it was worth it. Thanks for the sudden, if somewhat painful, laugh.

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  9. Bit of an overkill; but will certainly stop me from using 'suddenly' for some time.

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  10. Set the story in the Sudan.
    At a sudoku tournament.
    Call principle characters Susan. Suhan. Sue

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  11. NO! Please make this stop, I can't take it!
    Furthemore, I suddenly cannot think of any synonyms for sudden!

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  12. I used to abuse the word suddenly when I wrote stories as a kid! Then suddenly I stopped using it quite so much.

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  13. Suddenly I think that writing "suddenly" is good in sudden occasions, where thinks suddenly happen. What an odd and unique writing exercise!

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  14. most things in my life have happend suddenly..
    I guess writing a story 'bout my life would be suddenly bad!

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  15. Oh man, sudden doesn't look like a word anymore.

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  16. I was browsing the internet after school when suddenly, I stumbled around this blog. It was such a sudden, amusing break from work that I suddenly found myself still reading and commenting at 4:30 am.
    Suddenly, I realized that I'm still not done with my homework! So I must suddenly leave. Bye!

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  17. The word "sudden" suddenly has no meaning anymore. The suddenly endless repetitions of it made it suddenly become just a sudden, meaningless jumble of sudden syllables.

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  18. i suddenly cannot see the word sudden as anything but a meaningless collection of syllables

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  19. I want to know how someone limps suddenly.

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