nyneofuturists:

It’s Twitter Plays CCVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a NEWSROOM.

Here are your plays starting with @Jeremy_Gable who should have been chosen by DC over Orson Scott Card.

(Lights up on Daily Planet. A sign reads “Casual Friday”. SUPERMAN enters, sits at desk, starts working. Everyone freaks out. Bows) #tp206

— Jeremy Gable (@Jeremy_Gable) April 2, 2013

Editor: Press time. Need your copy. Op-Ed: It’s not true yet, give me an hour. E: Why? You think anyone’s gonna read it? O: … Here. #tp206

— Sam Swift Shuker (@s_swift_shuker) April 2, 2013

@nyneofuturists Year 2020. Lights up on Newsroom. Pause. Wind whistles. Tumbleweed rolls through. Pause. Blackout. #tp206

— michael rock (@michaelrock) April 2, 2013

@nyneofuturists #tp206 “Good evening. Nothing interesting happened today. We’ll do the weather and then we’ll let you get to bed.”

— Tim McMackin (@timothymcmackin) April 2, 2013

Rosco smoke fills newsroom as smoking writers in large thick glasses & wide colorful ties pound typewriters.Enter BOSS.”Copy!”FIN#tp206

— Dan D. (@fakewindow) April 2, 2013

A: So we’ve decided to downsize the entire newsroom & only use wire stories because nothing interesting happens in this city anyway. #tp206

— Heather Morrow (@theatrejunkiehm) April 2, 2013

MAN: Big enough for the kids’ room?WOMAN: So many little cubbies for them!REALTOR: In olden times this was a newsroom.M&W: A what?#tp206

— Chris Barlow (@iamchrisbarlow) April 3, 2013

[NEWSROOM IN THE AGE OF INTERNET] *long silence* Reporter: Did you read the story about the…? Other Reporter: Yup. *more silence* #tp206

— Catherine B Smith (@catherineblakes) April 3, 2013

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