David ([info]akirad) wrote in [info]write_away,
2006-09-18 11:34:00
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There's a new Sheriff in town... Picture Prompt #69

Hello! To demonstrate the flexibility and total kung-fu of the [info]write_away mods, [info]smeddley and I are swapping prompts for a while. So from now on I'm on the picture prompt and she is doing the Six Degrees of Separation Tuesday thing.

Okay, so to show how great my new reign will be, I'm already late. Oh well.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look at the following picture and write something/anything inspired by it. Even if that inspiration is off on a tangent, it doesnt matter - anything goes.


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Go to it!
Tags: feature: sunday picture prompt, user: akirad

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[info]akirad

September 18 2006, 13:12:56 UTC 5 years ago

I'm thinking you need to get away from the whole "it's a lump of rock" thing. Maybe something like...

A girl lives by the sea. One day she gets sick. Then she gets really sick. Convulsions and fever and the doctors are baffled. She slips into a coma and the doctors say, "there's nothing we can do but pray." So some people pray, while others go outside and smoke a lot.

Then, just as it looks like she's going to die, she suddenly wakes up. When she looks around, she thinks she's in heaven. She is in an empty hospital room and there are familiar voices, but all she can see are wisps of light, different colours and intensities, some dancing like fireflies, others shadowed and slow.

At first she is confused and scared. Where are all the people? The lights talk to her and she responds. They are the people she knows. She feels them touch her, their arms around her, their tears against her skin as they hold her. But she cannot see their forms, only the light that lives within them. And she realises - she can only see their souls.

As the days pass she leaves hospital and tries to slide back into her life. It's hard, not seeing anyone properly, it feels very lonely. Better than being dead maybe, but not much better. Gradually she gets use to the sense of isolation, and even finds beauty in the way the myriad people move in clusters of light, and how every light is unique, like a fingerprint.

One day she goes walking on the beach, and walks a long way down the coast. She comes to a bunch of rocks and sees a strange object. A cube of rock, sitting there. She's never noticed it before. She walks up to it and reaches out to touch its surface, when a voice startles her.

"Do you usually walk up and touch total strangers?" the cube says, and it takes a step back from her.
"You're... a person?"
"Yeees," the cube laughs nervously. "Are you, ah... feeling alright?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, it's just... I've just never seen anyone quite like you before."

It was then she noticed the cube was alive with red light.

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That sort of thing... :)



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[info]akirad

September 18 2006, 13:52:37 UTC 5 years ago

Bradbury stole all my ideas.

Like the one where they go back in time and step on a butterfly and it changes history? That was just a copy of my story where they go back in time and back over a dinosaur in their pickup and it changes history. Damn him!

[info]villaintagonist

5 years ago

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[info]akirad

5 years ago

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[info]copperbird

September 18 2006, 13:51:39 UTC 5 years ago

Gotta try to think of non rude rhymes for rock :)

[info]akirad

September 18 2006, 13:54:04 UTC 5 years ago

Just as well it wasnt a picture of a stick :)

[info]copperbird

September 18 2006, 15:42:37 UTC 5 years ago

Maybe it isn't a rock ... maybe it's a brick!

[info]akirad

5 years ago

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[info]citizenwind

September 18 2006, 13:36:52 UTC 5 years ago

so it's a lump of rock?

[info]akirad

September 18 2006, 13:54:55 UTC 5 years ago

alright! fine! it's a fucking lump of rock. everybody happy now?

[info]donttouchmyhat

September 18 2006, 14:17:46 UTC 5 years ago

Personally I get a very Arthur C. Clarke vibe about the thing.

[info]citizenwind

September 18 2006, 14:19:57 UTC 5 years ago

good. so it's a lump of rock.

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[info]akirad

5 years ago

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[info]tophet_perish

September 18 2006, 15:50:56 UTC 5 years ago

where'd you find a picture of a lupm of rock near the ocean?


just curious...

[info]akirad

September 19 2006, 13:26:06 UTC 5 years ago

it's just up the coast from where i live. i think if you click on the picture you'll see the rest of the set on flickr.

[info]smeddley

September 19 2006, 18:57:34 UTC 5 years ago

DUDE - you're driving on the wrong side of the road! Ahhhhh! ;)

Nice pics!

[info]royanrannedos

September 18 2006, 22:51:05 UTC 5 years ago

ATTENTION ALL ANTS:

PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED

[info]akirad

September 19 2006, 13:26:29 UTC 5 years ago

thats what i was thinking! fossilized mini-borg cube.

[info]royanrannedos

September 19 2006, 16:22:00 UTC 5 years ago

Ants to Borg: And?

[info]royanrannedos

September 18 2006, 22:52:53 UTC 5 years ago

I think that I shall never see
a cube so brick-like, by the sea
And cube and Cuba start with C.
and now they're throwing stuff at me
for writing this bad poetry.

[info]smeddley

September 19 2006, 18:58:09 UTC 5 years ago

*gigglesnort*

Very clever!

[info]royanrannedos

September 19 2006, 19:59:46 UTC 5 years ago

Arrrr, thankee mate! Yew might talk like a pirate bucko, but ya sure don't look it. (referencing your entertaining story.)

[info]smeddley

5 years ago

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[info]akirad

September 19 2006, 13:27:04 UTC 5 years ago

i think it rocks.

no pun intended.

[info]dynastic_queen

September 19 2006, 07:39:22 UTC 5 years ago

Gawd. At first glance, it looked like Spam! Canned meat by the sea. Wow.
Glad to know it's a rock.

[info]akirad

September 19 2006, 13:28:06 UTC 5 years ago

lol. yeah, it looks like the stuff the walls were made of in that freaky "film studio" in Videodrome. If you've ever seen that movie, that is.

[info]zippitgood

September 23 2006, 00:39:35 UTC 5 years ago

Alone by the sea,
for ever and eternity.
I pray and sit and hope
my eternity does not fling me away
into the swirls of foam.
Oh, eternity, eternity
leave me be.
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