Tag: Inspiration
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Not to Scale
That’s a heavy lizard, Elgwynne cackled as she scooped Estradamous off the plate on the covern scales. Estradamous hissed, clawed, and shrieked at being handled, preferring very much to be left in his own space. He spat fiery venom onto Elgwynne’s left cheek in annoyance, causing her artificial synthetic skin to melt away, revealing the…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Long and Winding Road
Lord Edward Ayr–Gray, an eccentric chap with a passion / compulsion/ obsession for 1930s bicycles, suddenly grew tired of the winding lanes he’d had built in the vast Yelby Estate. “Rip them all up!” he commanded Giles, his groundsman, one summer morning. “I want a square lane that runs around the edges of the estate,…
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Somehow Cosy
Radiant Sunset; Grounding reds, misty yellows… All somehow cosy. Image by Jplenio at Pixabay. Posted for Eugenia’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt Somehow Cosy.
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Precise Decoration
What are you doing voice A asked, within a distant echo; that’s not right, commented voice B, slightly ahead; leave him to it, voice C said from somewhere behind, he’s concentrating. Tom pulled his tongue back into his mouth and carefully carried the small, silver sugared bead in a tweezer, and then carefully and precisely…
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The Unicorn Challenge: The Portal
Callum finally completed trimming one side of the square arch on the main path in the gardens of Yelby Manor. He wished he’d started on the opposite side when he finished, after realising it was the trickier side of the two… then, he had to do the top. He decided to take a break, and…
The Mansionic Perspective 