What kind of wicked turns did our stories take this week as the shoe was plucked from the heroes and put on the other foot? No Cinderellas here my dear.
Dex Raven – “The Ones That Got Away”
Beach Bum – “Washing Away My Sins”
Joyce Juzwik – “Talk Isn’t Cheap”
Carmen Seitan – “The Shadows That Bind”
Glenn Ricafrente – “Wild Heart”
Mike Young – “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Ert Rth – “Troll”
To play off last week’s prompt by Miss Aldin, we’re going to tackle fairy tales again.
I want you to remember your fair tale lore, your scariest of scary bed time stories, those monsters, oh so maligned monsters, who go bump in the night. Remember the typical tropes of good little children lost in the forest in perilous fright of witches, wolves and wild wonderlings? Where step-mothers are evil and hags are cannibals? Babies stolen and switch during the night?
Are your toes tingling, your spine wriggling? Remember all those horrible things? Yes? Well throw it out the window, the baby with the wash.
This week I want you to write a story where the monster is the protagonist. Maligned, misunderstood, quirky or funny. A love story, a comedy, or still yet a scary morality tale, make what you want of it.
Also, to play on the wicked aspect, I want you to use the famous Ray Bradbury title “Something Wicked This Way Comes” as a line in your story.
Genre: Fairy tale/mixed
Word Limit: 1200
Cue: Take your typical fairy tale villain or monster and make them the protagonist. Must use “something wicked this way comes” as a line in the story.
Deadline: Thursday April 19th, 9:00 AM EST
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