500 Club (7/5)
Hello to another Thursday and another 500 Club! The game is afoot!
How we do:
- Pick one of the two prompts below and write 500 words on it
- Post it to your blog.
- Give us the first line or two below along with a link to your blog so we can read the rest.
On to the prompts.
1. Wilson! Write a story about a castaway, whose only friend is an inanimate object. (This post might help fuel your creativity.) How did things ever come to this?
2. The liberation of X. Write a story about someone fleeing a cult. Not at all inspired by recent, totally insane events in the celebrity gossip columns. No, not at all.
Ha! The second one could be funny or ugly. That first one could be good. Reminds me of the Life of Pi…
That Darned Cat!
http://www.agincourtdb.com/2012/07/tulia.html
“Looks like rain.”
Robbie doesn’t answer.
Her face is upturned, her eyes scanning once-strange heavens. “Seems like there’s always more change of rain when the big one’s out.”
Robbie still doesn’t answer.
I tried to comment on your blog but my ipad was being dumb, so lemme just say here that I really enjoyed this, the sensory details were really sharp. I especially liked the oily farty smell of the planet.
I mean, I probably wouldn’t like it in real life, I’m not a member of the Dutch-Oven Fanclub, but it was a detail that really put me there.
Thanks! I appreciate the thought because I wondered over that word (for tonal reasons) for a good five minutes.
leaving the fold
“Ester, you must go to The Binding. You must. Jedidiah will be sorely vexed if you do not.”
Ester looked into Rahab’s eyes. She’d known Rehab all her life and, until 3 weeks ago, never spent more than a few hours outside her company. That was before she wander away from the group in town while they were buying supplies for the compound. Before she met Eddie. Before she saw how small and constricted her world was and how wide open the outside world could be. How open it would be for her. Read more…
Another good Flash piece, Dex. A step outside of what I’m used to reading from you, but still a great standard of writing.
Keep them coming!