Sentence by sentence, Foshay Learning Center Room 13 students work together in teams to develop a story from the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s famous novel The Metamorphosis. Students were given one minute each to write a sentence, then pass it to their peers to continue the story. The result was a hilarious combination of wit and imagination.

This is what they came up with…

Group 8:
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. He knew this was a dream because he had this one before. He rose all sweaty from his dream. He was terrified. Although, after he realized he was awake it was all better. He then rose from his bed to brush his teeth and saw himself in the mirror. He was a praying mantis. He then began to scream in horror. His worst nightmare had become a reality, and he didn’t comprehend what was going on. He learned from the movie “Inception” that to wake from a dream he had to have a feeling he was falling. In an attempt to wake himself from what he thought was a dream, he tried it. As he fell and only hurt himself from the impact, he realized it was his reality.

Group 9: Eduardo Bodillo, Eduardo Morin, Steven Phan, Jonathan, Rogelio
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. He was an ugly spider with no feet. He started to roll around the bed trying to find a cure. As he rolled, there was a giant dog sniffing around. The giant dog was sniffing for leftover food. As he was looking for leftover food, he found a cave which led to a secret path. The secret path led to a room where Chuck Norris was at. Then Chuck Norris just so happened to start turning into a spider too. He then talked to Chuck Norris in a spider-like language and found out the steps to curing his transformation. First, he had to eat ten flies. Second, he had to speak to the Messiah who was at the top of a hill. He started heading toward the hill where there was a palace. When he opened the door he found the cure, which was milk.

Group Slugg
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. Then he jumped out of bed and ran to go find Raid. Raid instantly screamed after seeing Gregor in only boxers. He told him, “Are you crazy?! Put on some clothes!” After that, they got out the house and went on a mission – to find who was the one making his bed transform. Then they found a big insect in the middle of the front yard, and he got scared and screamed and ran. They went and bought some insect repellent so they wouldn’t have to worry about the insects and find out who was doing this. Later, they found out it was Gergor’s ex-girlfriend trying to get revenge because Gregor had cheated on her with the girl next door. He was furious and told her to get a life. Overall, she was very disappointed in what had happened.

Group: Ana Ordonez, Iris Maldonado
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. A balloon floated around the room and then popped. His head started aching, his veins popping, blood dripping, and his head inflated. As a cockroach, Gregor ran to the kitchen and then fell into a pickle jar. All of a sudden, a huge rat crawls in from nowhere and it starts barking. After hours of struggling, he finally makes his way out. He walks out of his house. People start staring at him, and a bus squishes him into another bus. He later disappears and finds himself tangled with an octopus. He then saw a toad and jumped on its back, then found himself getting a taste of it. Later, he sleeps and faints. He awakens and finds himself in a needle bathtub, and then he starts to feel drowsy. When he fell asleep and woke up, he found himself almost falling through the hole of the bathtub into the drain.

Group: Sagrario, Joe, Kimian, Lucia
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. So, he went to the bathroom, but he couldn’t go because he couldn’t reach it. Cursing under his breath, he decided to go into the kitchen. He climbed the refrigerator door and jumped into a big box of Cheerios but encountered Fruit Loops instead. He was very disappointed. So, he committed suicide by drowning in the milk from the bowl. Unfortunately, he survived his milky demise and leaped from the bowl. He murmured to himself about this one commercial he had seen about Jenny Craig. So, he decided to take a field trip to the mall. At the mall, he found gorgeous, glittery high heels. So, he wore them until a lady came and put them on and squished him.

Group 5: Stephanie Melava, Jocelyn Castra, Edward Gonzalez, Travis Philips, Mario Arquello
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. He didn’t know how to react. All he could do was scream. Gregor walked outside to find a wizard performing magic on his house and saw a big spider. I don’t know what happened, but he died. Then, he was reincarnated into a beaver. The beaver didn’t have a family, so he decided to go to a family of giraffes, and the giraffes ate him. The giraffes smiled with gratitude. Suddenly, the beaver burst out of the giraffe and said, “Thou shall not eat me!” The giraffe chuckled saying, “Fool, GET IN MY BELLY! >;D” He woke up again to realize it was all just a big dream.

Group: Leslee Perez, Jessica Sanabria, Roberto Recinos, Carlos Segovia
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. When he became an insect, he became a spider. He was terrified and jumped out the window. As a spider, he dreamed of being president of all spiders. He wanted to be the main hauncho. ;D His favorite food was mint chocolate chip ice cream with little flies, but he wanted something else on his ice cream. Was it cockroaches or ants? He got it. He wanted to eat a rate. He wandered through the grass, and in the end flies and mint chocolate chip ice cream ate him. The ice cream and flies bonded together and made a monster and got revenge. MUAHAHA! After he got eaten his body parts were still moving and he was beating up the flies and the mint chocolate chip inside. He ate him and little ants started to grow inside of him. He then went to heaven and became a god! But finally, he woke up and noticed he had dream of waking up! >.< Group: Jasmine Taylor, Pauline Welcome, Darwin Chavez, Roderick Richard, Sarady Merghani
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. He looked in the mirror to see the red hourglass on his small stomach, not being able to wipe it away. Then while tripping over his candy wrapper, he fell off the nightstand. While lying on the floor a spider crawled into his ear and ate his brain. Just when the spider was finished, Gregor jumped out of bed! He woke from his dream dazed and awaken, alive yet shaken!! Afraid to go back to bed, he told his brother about the dream. His brother laughed and slapped him across his face. And in his bed at 12;00 a.m., he lays and stares at the ceiling slowly fading into the dark. When morning comes, the bug pops out and tries to eat him. Except this time, he catches the bug. So he ended up dying as a bug. A big, black, ugly bug.

Group 6:
As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into an insect. He has a strange craving for… marshmallows. This odd craving was driving him made, so he went to his kitchen to make smores and found his roommate, Steve, staring incredulously at the sorry excuse for food he had in his hand. He asked, “What the hell is that?’ “It’s s’mores, man,” he said. At this point, the “dude” was lost. He was like a monkey in a jungle just swinging from branch to branch. Ahhh, Chihuahua. From there he lost his craving for s’mores. Not it was bananas. He found himself fighting a monkey for bananas, and the monkey tried to eat him. Then he woke up in his bed next to Steve. He woke up to see his friends face, eyes shut, lightly kissing his cheeks, Gregory woke up, stared at Steven, and blushed. “Why?” Gregor asked. “Because I wanted to lay next to you, soaking up the beauty that is your face,” Steven said.