Ruffus the mischievous zombie

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Twitchy Racoon

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This is a bit of a short story I am writing for fun, please give me your thoughts and tell me what I should correct.
Thankies

"BLARGghgarhg!" said Ruffus, my pet zombie, as I took away his chewtoy, a recently deceased raccoon he found one night. "Thats enough Ruffus, lets play some ball." I said in a demanding voice. "Gagahahgrgag" mumbled Rufus as he reluctantly got up. The forty year old zombie's green skin shimmered disturbingly in the sun-light, it scared the shit out of me. "Catch!" I shouted as I gently tossed him the ball. Ruffus followed the ball with his eyes but did not move, the ball hit him on the head, the large metallic collar on his neck let out a beep as ruffus become to be more aware. "Wareeregrg" he said as he took a step back in confusion. I let out a sigh of frustration, Ruffus was the slowest zombie on the block, he couldn't even run. "Come on boy, pass it." I said as kindly as I could. Ruffus slowly grabbed the ball and lazily threw it.

I caught the ball with my jaw hanging in awe, this was the first time Ruffus ever returned the ball. "Good boy." I said lovingly "Catch this one." I threw it even harder than before to see just how much he actually learned, Ruffus caught it with ease, his collar began to beep like crazy. He smiled, showing green rotting teeth, I smiled in return, I was actually enjoying playing with Ruffus. "Thats what I'm talking about, now throw it as hard as you can." With a rather loud grunt, Ruffus threw the ball with an incredible force, it hissed as it flashed towards me. I gasped as I dodged the ball by a single hair, that throw was inhuman, . "RArarahgrgRAFAGh!" Screamed Ruffus triumphantly, at his terrifyingly powerful throw. Suddenlly, I hear a loud thunk behind me followed by Ruffus smashing into the floor with a thud. I stared confusingly at the uncounsciouos zombie, the ball laid on his stomach, I turned around, a large bump was molded onto the side of my dad's car. "Uh oh" I whispered to myself. "Bllllurghr...." mumbleded Ruffus, I helped him up. "You okay Ru-" My hair stood up, there lied Ruffus's broken collar, several meters away from the zombie's neck. I looked at Ruffus, a blank expression was glued to his face.

To be continued....
 

Kpt._Rob

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Well... It's something. You spelled "threw" and "throw" wrong a couple times. There is a difference betwen "through" and "threw". Other than that, well, there's really not enough to see where you're going with it doesn't really have a premise so much as a gimick (pet zombie), which, actually has been done before. That was the entire gimick of the film Fido, and it was sort of implied at the end of Shawn of the Dead. Also, the fact that it's all jumbled into one big paragraph makes it kind of difficult to read.

Overall I'd say you've got something to work with, but you're going to need to actually take it somewhere, and you're going to need to start breaking up your paragraphs into much more managable chunks.
 

Twitchy Racoon

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Kpt._Rob said:
Well... It's something. You spelled "threw" and "throw" wrong a couple times. There is a difference betwen "through" and "threw". Other than that, well, there's really not enough to see where you're going with it doesn't really have a premise so much as a gimick (pet zombie), which, actually has been done before. That was the entire gimick of the film Fido, and it was sort of implied at the end of Shawn of the Dead. Also, the fact that it's all jumbled into one big paragraph makes it kind of difficult to read.

Overall I'd say you've got something to work with, but you're going to need to actually take it somewhere, and you're going to need to start breaking up your paragraphs into much more managable chunks.
Yeah Fido was my main inspiration, ill get down to correcting soon enough....
 

p3t3r

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wait is the zombies name Fido or ruffus. also i had a bit of trouble understanding it explain it a bit better and separate into paragraphs

right now i would give in a 2 to be completely honest
 

Twitchy Racoon

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p3t3r said:
wait is the zombies name Fido or ruffus. also i had a bit of trouble understanding it explain it a bit better and separate into paragraphs

right now i would give in a 2 to be completely honest
there I edited it, now what do you think?
 

swolf

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Other than minor typos (example: "deamding" instead of "demanding" and the random name change from "Ruffus" to "Fido" ...sorry, I'm a grammar nazi and that stuck out to me like a neon sign, things like that stick out to me before I even read the words around it...it's like a sixth sense.) It seems like an interesting read. I am working on a story but have trouble focusing on it. Either too busy or wasting too much time here.
 

p3t3r

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Twitchy Racoon said:
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p3t3r said:
wait is the zombies name Fido or ruffus. also i had a bit of trouble understanding it explain it a bit better and separate into paragraphs

right now i would give in a 2 to be completely honest
there I edited it, now what do you think?
well there are still some grammer mistakes and it is a bit crazy that it would bounce off his car and hit him square in the throat with enough force to break it off. it should be longer before i can pass any real judgment