Here is your weekly Visual Dare! You can use this photo in one of two ways:
* incorporate it into your current Work In Progress - literally, or figuratively
* use it as a 100 word flash fiction to get the brain going in a different creative direction.
Use the link tool below to submit the post from your blog, OR - if you don't have a blog - leave it in the comments below.
Here's your dare:
Went somewhere dark on this one.
ReplyDeleteMommy said the books would help him escape. But she didn’t say which book held the key. The monster pulled into the driveway as he opened the first book. He had just learned to read, and many of the words were big and scary. The monster’s feet tromped up the front walk. Mommy said the books would help him escape. He turned the pages faster, hoping that the magic would be strong enough to help him understand the words. The monster turned the doorknob. It had to be in one of these. Mommy said the books would help him escape.
This is creeptastic. Oh goodness, I am in absolute terror for the little guy!
DeleteThanks. Me too! ;)
DeleteMy head is whirling about the kind of monster it is... great words!
DeleteOhhhh... I am so nervous for the little sweetheart!!
ReplyDeleteAngela, thank you for a fantastic Visual Dare. I posted on my blog....
I so want to rescue him!! I love this, it builds the tension beautifully - and I absolutely want to know what happens to him...
ReplyDeleteDark indeed - very atmospheric and "hooking".
DeleteIt depends on what he finds in the books...
DeleteAnd thanks for the nice comments!
Mum’s gone to the shops and my sister Tracy is with her boyfriend. Told me to go play. I’m bored. I got these books out to look at the pictures. Not mine. Don’t understand them. I’ll try hard cos I want to read really bad, I do. Not many pictures. Funny words. “Hand” I got. We did “hand” in school.
ReplyDeleteTry another. Not much better, no dogs in it. Try “say the sound”, that’s what Miss Pearson said. So I point and say but I still don’t understand.
Great – mum’s back!
“Mum! Mum! What’s an orgasm?”
WHOOPS. Mom's gotta think fast on this one!! Lesson in a snapshot....those blindside moments are always the ones that make a parent shake their head and go "Huh? How did we get here?" :)
DeleteI’m waiting for my Daddy. He’s a soldier. When he’s not here, I look after Mummy cos Daddy said I’m a big boy now.
ReplyDeleteMummy is crying: big fat tears and her eyes are red balloons. Her voice sounds funny. Nobody notices when I take a pile of books. I stack them carefully on the porch. I look at each of the books, but they make no sense. Mummy says the strange black pictures in lines are words that tell a story. But I make up my own stories. I don't need words.
Daddy will be home, soon, won't he?
OK - in tears now ... good enough reaction? Fine piece, thank you.
DeleteHeartbreak in a hundred words. O my goodness. *sniiiiiiiiiiiiiff*
DeleteWell done! Thanks for joining in on the flash fiction fun!
Thank you many times over, and for many reasons.
DeleteAlways so great to see the myriad directions these photos take people. And don't forget - I've got the link tool now as well, so those of you with blogs can post and link through to here --- that way we get to read your responses, AND people can click through to check out your own home on the interwebz!
ReplyDeleteNext photo coming this Wednesday!
These all came out beautifully. I am so humbled by the comments people are leaving at my blog post sharing my words from the Visual Dare. Thank you all!
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