About the challenge: Each Tuesday I will provide a photo prompt. Your mission, if you choose to accept the challenge, is to tell a story in 280 characters or less. When you write your tale, be sure to let me know in the comments with a link to your tale.
A final note: if you need help tracking the number of characters in your story, there is a nifty online tool that will count for you at charactercountonline.com .
I will do a roundup each Tuesday, along with providing a new prompt. And if for some reason I missed your entry in the Roundup, as I have occasionally done, please let me know. I want to be sure to include your tale.
Finally, have fun!
And REMEMBER…you have 280 characters (spaces and punctuation included), to tell your tale…and a week to do it. I can’t wait to see what you create this week.
Twittering Tale #76 – The Roundup
Starting us off…
Stranded
“Are you kidding me?! Out of gas?!”
“‘Fraid so. I’ll walk back to that service station. Lock the doors ‘til I get back.”
Hours passed. An eerie mist loomed. Sue had dozed off, startled awake by frogs, the size of wolves, peering at her.
“Ribitt…my favorite. Lady fingers.”
(272 Characters)
From Michael at Morpethroad:
The pond scum committee was called to order.
A change of image was required.
They were over the bad rap they received.
Something needed to be done.
Suddenly scum left and right leapt into action.
A leg, a fin, a strangely shaped head.
The scum was changing.
A vision of beauty was born.
From Reena at ReInventions:
Reflections
“The artist is not at peace with himself.”
“What makes you that?”
“The ugliness captured shows his discomfort with the world, and throwing back the revulsion at them. It is a secret desire for the world to be swallowed by this muck.”
(231 characters)
From Fandango at This, That, and the Other:
Muffins
“I can’t believe you dropped the whole bucketful into that puddle,” Beth scolded her sister.
“I’m sorry,” Ann said, tears running down her cheeks, “but that thunderclap scared me.”
“It took me hours to fill that bucket. How’s mom gonna make blueberry muffins without blueberries?”
(278 characters)
From Jane at Jane Dougherty Writes:
Who said frogs have stopped evolving?
Once it was every tadpole for himself, wriggling to probable death in a bird’s gullet or a kid’s jamjar. All that changed when thousands of tadpoles united and superfrog was spawned—the golden age of pondlife was about to begin.
From Willow at WillowDot21:
SATAN’S SPAWN.
Satan shouted, who had moved his bucket. Silence, Uriel has been clearing up had he moved it? Satan was getting annoyed, where was his spawn.
Uriel smiled as two little boys wandered off into the sun set carrying a bucket of black smelly spawn. Uriel loved making children happy.
(279 characters)
From Jan at Strange Goings On in the Shed:
Something stirred within the mass of writhing bodies. He felt their hunger and cunning. They called to him but he ignored their siren call. The enemy was on the rise. This darkness was foretold. The Shaman whispered words of binding, vowing to imprison the nightmare throng.
(277 characters)
From Hayley at The Story Files:
Spawn
It’s strange to think that my fondest memories as a child was going out each spring and collecting frog spawn. It just seemed so natural and innocent. It probably started my career too! I’m now head frog and toad keeper at the zoo.
From Francine at Woman Walks Dog:
Breaking News
Scientists have reason to believe that an extinct amphibian, last recorded in 1503, a Giant Toadasaurus has spawned in a local framer’s muddy pool, for reasons unknown. Farmer Jo King told reporters ” Locals can’t wait for this weird and wonderful Hatching to happen .”
From Isabel at Poetry, Fiction, and Photography:
Who’s the Monster Now?
Getting lost in the marsh wasn’t great for our friendship. There was a lot of finger pointing. We were about to bite each other’s heads off when the swamp monster appeared. It took one look at us and dived right back under water.
(230 characters)
Well, that was thoroughly entertaining, everyone! Some of you had a creepy or scary tale to tell, some philosophical, some quite funny and one…blueberries! I have to agree the photo did look a bit like peeled blueberries when I had a second look. Great stories, but I think I’ve had my fill of frogs….you’re welcome! This week, a tall stairwell and a little girl in a photo by Min An at Pexels.com. Is she playing a game of hide and seek? Perhaps she is a ghost, or just a flower girl in her auntie’s wedding. There are a few stories here I think. Thanks to everyone who wrote a story last week. Hope to see you at the roundup. 🙂
Twittering Tale #77 – 26 March 2018
Maybe Next Time
“She’s a lovely girl; smart, polite, well-mannered. Mr. and Mrs. Harding, shall I fetch her?”
“Anna Harding,” Anna mused, straightening her dress, smiling.
“Emily dear,” Miss Sedgewick called, “please come down.”
Anna sighed, “maybe next time,” as she watched Emily skip happily by.
(279 Characters)
~kat
March 27th, 2018 at 1:02 am
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March 27th, 2018 at 3:12 am
I love this photo Kat lots of stories there 💜
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:21 am
Thanks Willow. I thought so too. 😊
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:02 am
Oh, that’s sad, Kat!
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:21 am
I know. 😢 I know someone, now grown, who lived through this sort of heartache. She has carried the burden of feeling that she is never good enough to this day.
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:30 am
I can’t imagine what it would do to a kid’s self-esteem. Being abandoned is bad enough.
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March 27th, 2018 at 11:07 am
My friend eventually met her birth family. They were a disappointment (I’m being kind)…her birth mother claiming she wished abortion had been legal when my friend was born. The people who eventually adopted her were horrible as well. She is coming around to believing in herself, but it has taken years. I believe the extended families we create are the lifelines that save us when our birth families fail us. There is something to be said for finding your “tribe” in this life.
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March 27th, 2018 at 3:39 pm
I hate to say this, but your friend is not a good advertisement for the pro-lifers. What happened to all the rallying round so that no child is left unloved?
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March 27th, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Oh those pro-lifers only care about children before they’re born.
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March 27th, 2018 at 3:47 pm
🙂 Now that is the kind of cynicism I expect of myself.
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March 27th, 2018 at 3:49 pm
It’s not cynicism…here, it is pretty much the reality. 😊
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:21 pm
Here the right to a termination isn’t an issue, but for the kids that are born and end up in care, the state takes an attitude I find just wrong. They believe that a child is best with its biological mother, so the door should always be left open for a mother to ask for her child back. Fine, except that unless a mother signs away her right on a child, that child can never be adopted. It can rot in an orphanage, go from one foster family to another until it reaches 16 and then it’s let loose in the world, alone. I just think it’s wrong, when there are so many couples wanting to adopt.
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:30 pm
That is a tough situation. Parents here must also sign over their rights here, which leaves the child in limbo. My issue with the religious right pro-lifers is that they want to outlaw abortion, as well as birth control. Abstinence is the only thing they deem appropriate to teach in our schools. Girls and women are responsible for the pregnancy. Policy makers on the right don’t want men to have to pay for maternity insurance, so their solution is a surcharge on women, who happen to get pregnant. So far we’ve kept that law at bay…but one more thing…birth control and maternity care not covered by insurance…viagra covered. 😡
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:41 pm
It’s just another instance of the patriarchy covering its back. It’s ALWAYS the woman’s fault. She’s the one who ‘leads him on’ she’s the one who ‘puts herself at risk’ so logically she’s the one who takes the blame, and picks up the tab.
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:42 pm
Yep.
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:24 am
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March 27th, 2018 at 4:25 am
Hi Kat,
Back here after a couple of weeks.
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:05 am
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:09 am
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March 27th, 2018 at 6:11 am
Hey! Here is mine: https://elysianandcynosure.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/overlooking-good-times/
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March 27th, 2018 at 8:05 am
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March 27th, 2018 at 12:18 pm
Sarah was learning about gravity in school. She’d had fun dropping items from her room off the railing, counting the seconds. The bird feather took FOR-EVER. Her favorite stuffed bunny bounced on its ears and made her laugh. She wondered if her baby brother would bounce. “SARAH!”
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March 27th, 2018 at 12:52 pm
Haha!!!!
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March 28th, 2018 at 1:35 am
Hi Kat,
My entry’s here
Have a great week ahead!
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March 28th, 2018 at 3:18 am
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March 28th, 2018 at 3:26 am
Here’s mine https://isabelcaves.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/twittering-tale-twos-a-crowd/
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March 28th, 2018 at 8:55 am
Hi, lots of great stories here! This one’s mine; https://thestoryfiles.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/on-the-stairs-twitteringtales/ Thanks for the prompt.
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March 28th, 2018 at 11:05 am
Another Magnificent round of Creativity.. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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March 28th, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Yes indeed Dorna! 😊
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March 28th, 2018 at 4:58 pm
An image infused with menace Kat, lovely!
I’ve posted my offering:
https://strangegoingsonintheshed.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/sangfroid-twittering-tale-77-26-march-2018/
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March 30th, 2018 at 1:27 pm
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March 30th, 2018 at 1:30 pm
francineangelcakes 30th March 2018
the photo of the little girl took me along a sad path Kat.
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March 30th, 2018 at 6:52 pm
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April 1st, 2018 at 2:52 am
Participating after a longish hiatus Kat, here’s my entry for the week: https://jagahdilmein.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/asthma-attack-atozchallenge-blogchatteratoz/
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April 1st, 2018 at 2:22 pm
I’m so glad you did. Your tale is a good one! 🙂
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April 3rd, 2018 at 12:31 am
Thank you so much Kat.
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April 3rd, 2018 at 8:49 am
My pleasure! 😊
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April 3rd, 2018 at 12:06 am
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April 3rd, 2018 at 10:14 am
That’s a heartbreaking tale, Kat!
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April 3rd, 2018 at 10:51 am
So sorry…sometimes I give in to the dark side. This week’s tale has a humorous note to it. Such is life! 🙂
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April 3rd, 2018 at 12:01 pm
Sometimes it’s hard to ignore the lure of a tragic story. There’s no need to be sorry. There’s a certain kind of beauty in tragic endings too.
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