Monday, May 10, 2010

Description of a Room

There were two categories of dirty clothes in the room. In front of the closet were the clothes that had been worn only a few times and would be kept on for active duty; inside the closet lie the clothes that were retired from service - at least until next washing. A pile of socks sat to the left of his dresser. Atop the dresser, his alarm sat conveniently close to the bed; the snooze button well-worn. The rest of the dresser was piled with stacks of books, each with a bookmark nestled somewhere between the covers. The sheets of the bed were coming up from under the bottom-right corner of the mattress, and the blankets were half-hanging dilapidated off the side. Under the bed were assorted boxes, most half-full. The floor was, in general, filthy. Dust bunnies adorned the are where wall met floor like chintzy molding. A handful of insect carcasses dotted the hardwood floor. The walls were bare, excepting of course the hideous wallpaper the previous tenent had left behind. One of the bulbs in the ceiling light was burned out.
In the room lies a desk. The desk has atop it a ream of blank paper, pencils, charcoals, pastels, colored pencils, brushes, three rulers, a compass, four pen-holders, a quill, and a stick of chapstick left open. On the floor lies the crumpled-up corpses of used scraps of paper.

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