Creative Experiments and More

Initially planned to spend the night at the reading room on campus. Change of plans. Returning back to hostel. Out of fuel. Broke. Hours of concentration on books without food was draining me. Losing my mind.

While bypassing the International Students Hostel, I had an idea. Search through the dustbin beside the hostel. These were desperate times. It was midnight and no one would notice. There might be a dollar bill mistakenly thrown away with some disposable cups or plates.

Stealthily, I scavenge the dustbin. I was about searching through an old handbag when I noticed there was a security personnel on duty. He was seated in a dark corner of the hostel, staring straight at me. I was startled and impulsively started walking towards him, the nerves in my brain racing hard for a sensible lie to offer this welcomed pair of eyes.

When I got to him, I…

A situational prompt this week;

Situation 1

Your character finds an old, disposable camera on the ground. They get the photos developed. What they see tells an unsettling story.

Situation 2 ☑️

The doorbell rings and your character answers it – finding nothing but an envelope with nothing on it. They open it and follow the instructions.

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Always be wary of strangers giving you instructions

You never know where they will lead you or to what

Found a blank envelope on your doorstep with instructions?

If I were you, I wouldn’t open that envelope or read the note inside

But if your curiosity gets ahead of your sensible thinking

Then do stop and contemplate what you’re about to do!

Does this fall in the realm of sanity or is something too outlandish?

Think carefully before you commit yourself to any harebrained scheme

Always remember that only…

Serena dropped off the old disposable camera at Walmart for developing, asking for the one-hour rush. The sixty minutes couldn’t pass soon enough; that’s how excited she was.

Finally, it was time! Opening the package, it lookO time, still held a certain charm as she quickly went through all the photos. It looked to Serena as if these were from a wedding reception. Yes, there was one with the bride in her beautiful white dress!

OMG! That’s her mother, but NOT her dad!

Inspired by Eugenia’s Moonwashed Weekly Challenge – Captivating &
Reena’s Exploration Challenge

When I found this disposable camera on the ground, I decided to get the photos developed at my local CVS Photo location.  They told me that the processing would only take a few hours and then I could come back and pick up the photos.  I went to pick up the developed pictures and the girl gave me a disturbing look, as all of these pictures were a bit unsettling.  She smiled at me and said, “Nice sex den.  It looks a lot like that bizarre place from the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman movie Eyes Wide Shut.”  I was totally embarrassed, as I had watched that movie about the underground sex group that were into all sorts of perversions, but I smiled back at her and told her that the camera was not mine and that I just got the pictures developed, but I am not responsible for the…

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #243 is a sentence starter this week and I am choosing situation two.

The doorbell rings and your character answers it – finding nothing but an envelope with nothing on it. They open it and follow the instructions.

Sarah heard the door sill clank, and peered out of the window. It was dark, and she could only see the outline of a person walking away. She wasn’t sure if it was a man or a woman – it could have been either.

Used the darkness of the hallway, she retrieved an envelope, but to read it, she needed some light. She sits at her computer desk, where she slowly opens the flap. Inside is one strip of plain paper.

St Ives car park, in one hour, alone – there is nothing else, no stamp or who it is from.

She thinks about what to do next: there…