blues washed away by sunny skies – yet green monsters raise such lovely shades emerald envy deceives us in bejewelled predominance shadowing true happiness https://scvincent.com/2019/03/28/thursday-photo-prompt-bright-writephoto/
Shadowing
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #80
Without much ado, I present this week’s challenge, as posting has already been delayed a little. PROMPT #80 Exploration Challenge #80 FOR THE NEW ENTRANTS There is no restriction on the length or format of the piece. Write a post on your blog, and link it up here with a pingback, or copy-paste the blog … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #80
Tale Weaver – #216 – Fairy Tale – The Evil/Dark side
An interesting prompt by Michael ….
Image: Pixabay
This week consider a fairy tale from the perspective of the evil step-mother, the wicked witch, the dark prince or any other bad/evil character you might be familiar with.
What might be their motivation, were they always the way they are depicted?
Do they have any redeeming qualities?
Go where the prompt leads you, have fun and don’t cast any spells that might backfire on you.
Link your tales using the linking tool below and limit your responses to 600 words max.
Damned
There was a celebration in the deep, dark woods – their Master, the Devil had taken birth in the human world. His first masterful act was to kill his mother – she died during childbirth. His father, in a state of shock, refused to see the child, and uttered the words – “Oh, May he … Continue reading Damned
The Dangers of Apotheosis
“I’m Cinderella’s wicked stepmother,” the horribly stern, unyielding woman explained to the journalist who interviewed her. It’s my place in folklore to represent mankind’s dark side, in government and authority in general. I’m what happens when people abandon all notions of a rightly ordered system of governance and allow their lives to be taken over by a Frankensteinian counterfeit, with my apologies to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.”
“Continue, please,” said the interviewer.
“It all started with Adam and Eve’s Apple, or was it a pomegranate?” she went on. “Pandora’s Box and Prometheus explain it so well too. Mankind has always been quite the sucker for power, a need to reconfigure the world in his own image and likeness. I, as Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, represent the way in which the world is understood when mankind abandons all responsibility for his actions. Her ugly stepsisters, of course, represent the malevolent fruits of…
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Time Traveller
“I’m very excited to be interviewing a time traveller. It is a first for me and the channel. Tell us, Mr. Jeevan, what did you see on your journey to different eras in time?” “Quite a lot, but I was disappointed when I tried to connect the dots between different eras. Life is not static. … Continue reading Time Traveller
Do You See the Colors of The Current?
Do you see the colors of the current? …… as I see it — by HRR Gorman
The young man lay on the dock, chin tucked nicely in his fingers at the edge of the wood. “What’s it look like, under the ocean?”
A mermaid held onto the buoy just off the edge of the dock, anchoring herself in place. “The water distorts the comings and goings of light in a different way from the air. The deeper I plunge into the ocean, the darker everything seems, the stranger the colors.” She held out a hand. “Would you like to see?”
The man shook his head. “Nah. I couldn’t breathe under there.”
The mermaid chuckled, put the hand up to her mouth to hide her giggle.
“Maybe you do have all the colors in the universe, but I bet we got something you don’t.” He turned around, grabbed something out of a pocket, and showed it to her.
Her eyes widened. “Oh! It’s so yellow!”
The man…
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JSW Prompt 3-25-2019
Feel free to join in and respond to the prompt. Please try to keep your response between 200 – 250 word (recommended, not law). You can write a story, poem, essay, anything which strikes your fancy! Link your work back to this post so people can read it.
Picture by csknotts 2019
Unglued
puzzles of life remain unsolved – as I watch unglued pieces fall patterns and designs don’t work without a medium https://athling2001.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/jsw-prompt-3-25-2019/
Flash Fiction: The Machine of Life
PHOTO PROMPT© Sandra Crook For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here
“You have to be kidding me!”
The fates needed an upgrade but this bordered insanity. A few threads at a time allowed them the opportunity to monitor the mortal souls. Now they were to dish destiny on an industrial scale? “Population explosion” the given excuse.
She rolled her eyes. Nothing a little war or two wouldn’t fix. The plague? STDs and other nasty diseases? Builds character. No wonder the union organised a strike, fate worked over time. The webs between souls more complicated. The machines of life rumbled as they processed thread.
“What happens if there is a jam?”
“ Cut the threads amass.”
Set in the same story world as an earlier Flash Fiction: Thread!
