Monday, May 11, 2020

A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT


Bjorn is our host for Tuesday Prosery, and we are instructed
to write prosery not to exceed 144 words and including a quote
from the poem "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou.
   "his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream".
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Deadline approached for my next book, and my muse seemed on sabbatical. Since
I’d done my very best work in a getaway cottage deep in the woods, I booked it,
hoping it’s magic would work once more. Parking my old VW van by the door.
carrying my venerable Royal typewriter inside, I placed it on the beat-up desk.
Mysteries are my forte’. Tired but determined, I was soon happily typing a scenario
fit for mayhem and murder, lost in my creation of a forbidding haunted house.
Suddenly, without warning, a  shadow formed in the cabin corner. Dark and
foreboding, he drifted toward me and suddenly “his shadow shouts on a nightmare
scream”.  Kicking over my chair, I matched his scream with one of my own, gasping
for breath….and slowly realized I’d fallen asleep at my typewriter and fell into my
own Chapter One.   



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9 comments:

  1. Jade LiMay 11, 2020 at 2:05 PM

    A chilling concept of falling into one's created tale of terror. Excellent!

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  2. Linda Lee LybergMay 11, 2020 at 2:37 PM

    Delightful and scary Beverly!

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  3. Gillena CoxMay 11, 2020 at 2:49 PM

    Again the simpatico, i have cottage in the woods today too.
    Maybe we should do a collaboration sometime

    Be safe

    Much💟love

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  4. KerfeMay 11, 2020 at 4:10 PM

    That's a good beginning for a book!

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  5. judydykstrabrown.comMay 11, 2020 at 8:50 PM

    Ha. Wonderful ending!!!

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  6. sarahMay 11, 2020 at 11:01 PM

    And the moral of the story is: don't write horror stories in lonely cottages in the woods...great ending there.

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  7. Kim M. RussellMay 11, 2020 at 11:57 PM

    I love the Stephen King-like scenario, Bev: book deadline, cottage in the woods, and the ‘venerable Royal typewriter’. Right down to the beat-up desk. Excellent signposts for a scary story. I love the ending, the fall into Chapter One. ‘All work and no play…’

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  8. brudbergMay 12, 2020 at 11:10 AM

    Dreams can be very good for inspiration... I assume the chapters wrote themselves after such an encounter.

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  9. Mary HoodMay 12, 2020 at 11:29 AM

    Your own stories, fiction and not seem to play havoc in our dreams. Nice story!

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