Friday, October 24, 2008

Writing Exercise

A CIA Agent disguises himself as a polar bear and infiltrates the polar bear's secret society. He soon discovers a race of polar bear living as the society's elite, a group that stand on their hind legs and wear clothes. Seeing an opportunity to shed his cumbersome polar bear disguise and exchange it for a more comfortable, human-like disguise and spy on the leaders of the society instead of the underlings, the CIA agent takes up the disguise of the polar bear elite. He quickly discovers that the elite group was merely a means to flush out spies and the polar bears tear off his arms. He is sent back to Langley and given a job as an armless janitor. Realizing they missed a great opportunity, the polar bears arrive at Langley and skin the janitor in a bathroom, with one polar bear donning the skin as a disguise to infiltrate the CIA. The polar bear lives out the rest of his life as a janitor for the CIA. At the age of 70 he's given a golden watch that he immediately pawns to help pay for his expensive chemotherapy but is not able to raise the money. He is put down by a group of drunken hunters mistaking the wintery streets of their neighborhood for the Arctic and mistaking all its children for arctic foxes and all its adults for polar bears. Two others are killed in the shooting spree and one more was injured. The hunters are arrested but released on a technicality (in Virginia the government changed the classification of non-government personel to animals in order to help legalize wire-tapping and one of the hunters moonlighted as a mail sorter, therefore making it a case of a hunters shooting a bunch of arctic foxes and a polar bear). They are killed when the polar bears, armed with a cursory knowledge of local Langley neighborhoods, kill a handful of people before they're tranquilized and sent to the zoo.