Games from Tenmoth Electron by bens pens

Games

1. Music Soothes the Savage Beast

You had to go like round the room around the room like you were some maniac and then the person who was on the stereo would play a piece of classical music and drop the stylus on the record. Then you just acted all floaty or calmly or kitten-y or serenely or...anyway it was called Music Soothes the Savage Beast.





2. Magic Powder

I would be a magician and my sister would be my assistant and I used this Brut33 talc dispenser for smoke and one day I was making my sister disappear in this puff of scented talcum powder when I squeezed the thing too hard and a load of it went all over her face and in her mouth. I had to make her promise not to tell mum or dad as I knew I'd be in trouble.





3.Torture

The game was called torture. I would sit opposite my sister cross-legged and we would take turns pinching each other and the the other person wasn't allowed to wince. If you winced you lost.





4. Typewriter

My cousin used to play typewriter with me. I'd have to lie on the floor and she’d pin my arms down with her knees and then she'd type on my belly and she’d say ‘TYPEWRITER! TYPEWRITER! TYPEWRITER!’ and I'd just lie there screaming and then she’d slap me round the ear and say ‘ping’.





5. Get Lost

My grandmother’s sister’s er pile I guess. A little mansion and a huge amount of ground around it near a nuclear power station in Bradford. Hills and trees and ponds and quite neglected. And when me and my sister and my 2 cousins would get together we’d say in unison ‘GET LOST’ but it was a singing thing and then we’d all run off in different directions. Maybe they just did it to lose me I don’t know.





6. Suffocation

We used to put pillows over each other’s faces and see how long you could go with a pillow over your face.





7. Firemen

It was a girl. I used to live on the same street as her. My friend was Lisa. Her and her brother are about 2 years apart and the youngest Charlotte about 5 years younger. One day they we playing. It was really sunny and their mother was sunbathing outside. Her brother said ‘I know. Let’s play firemen.’ So they got their sister Charlotte. And they opened the window and said ‘FIRE! FIRE! LOOK OUT BELOW!’ and threw her out the window. She landed on her mother who was sunbathing in the garden.

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