Stephen King, is that you?

The bomb. One of those where I don’t want to do a sequel because it’s too good to try to follow.

My god! I think I’m flattered! But honestly, I wrote this as a stand-alone story, so I’d LOVE to see where it could go from there.

Anywhoo, as a bit of backstory (that I forgot to do earlier), I came up with this idea when I encountered that brown de-icer for the first time. I thought some jerk had driven over campus with a leaky whatsit. In trying to figure out what the disgusting stuff was, I imagined this (or something similar).
That said. I think I used ‘brown’ too much and now it bothers me. (THAT said, I just realized I can fill my 1024 limit exactly by changing one of the words to ‘brown.’ I’m extremely tempted to go ahead and change all of them because I can… but I won’t.)

With regards to content, the way you treat it so casually, looking at it on face value rather than going into exactly what it is makes it all the more chilling – I think the repetition of ‘brown’ is a technique to enforce the scale of this goop, rather than a lack of vocabulary, so I wouldn’t worry about that.

I would like to see some clearer paragraphing here, for ease of reading and for tension building.

But good work, keep it up! MH :)