Creative Adventures — 28

Imagine You Can Digest Anything Without Any Side Effects

In this exercise, imagine that you can digest anything that you want without any side effects. In other words, you can eat anything and everything.

Please respond to the following questions:

1. As you have this super-power, you can eat anything you want without the risk of getting fat or nauseous. What would you like to eat? Create an indulgence menu for yourself.
2. It is against our biology to consume anything that could shut down our internal organs. However, you can eat and digest anything you like (such as steel, iron, wood, etc.) without offending your taste buds. How would you use this power? Create a story of how and when you use this power.
3. Imagine that there is a bomb that is about to go off in Times Square in New York. There are thousands of people for new year’s eve celebrations. There is not enough time to safely evacuate the square. You decide that you will eat the bomb. What happens next? How do you act like a hero? Describe unpleasant side effects you could suffer. Write down your thriller fiction.
4. You become famous for your power. Your nickname is “The Iron Stomach”. You resolve all matters by eating them. Make a list of five possible emergency situations that you are called for. Choose one of these instances and write a story about it. How do you solve the problem and save the situation?
5. World governments want to tackle the problem of ocean pollution using your power. You will eat up the plastic ending up in the world’s oceans. Come up with a plan.
6. You will face off your antagonist in this story. Who is your antagonist? A power-hungry third-world dictator who is about to kill millions of people or a billionaire polluting the world and devastating entire ecosystems? Write a story of how you end up eating the antagonist. Remember: If you have enemies, you can always eat them.
7. Since your stomach is a disposal system immune to harm, it has become the most powerful weapon in the world. Write a story about the unexpected consequences and side effects of this power.
8. Building on the above, write another story about a moral dilemma you face. To eat or not to eat? That is the question.

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