Day 160 Writing Short Stories

Tale

As any tale goes, at least the good ones, there is always a tragedy, obstacles, and then salvation. This one is no different from that. This one has heroes and dragons and all the whatnots that make a story a real one. It was just that he hadn’t written it yet. He could see it, act it, but it was never as it should be. The princess never acted as she was supposed to. The dragon refused to eat anything. And the hero was a pain in the ass brat who preferred to run away rather than face any obstacles. He had tried to make them behave, but they always did what they wanted.

He sighed and let the princess ride the dragon for the thousandth time. She grinned at him, calling him the wizard. He liked that, and the riding the dragon part looked actually nice.

“Okay, have it your way. I make you the protagonist,” he said.

Language

Maailman kaikkeus kostuu pienistä ihanista asioista. Se on niin harmi, että meillä ei ole enää aikaa sen ihmettelyyn.

Lucky Break

The world looked bleak and small over the counter. The endless lines and the requests for coffee and pastries made her heart ache. The repetition and the dull eyes of the queuers, who barely took their focus off their phones, made her question the whole world part. Yet the bills were there, and you had to work.

When she got home, there was her project waiting for her. The one she was tinkering with. It was supposed to measure the cosmic background radiation. But it was different from those they used in the labs. She wanted her machine to alter the radiation. Maybe with tampering, she could figure out the whole Big Bang thing and answer how it all began. They hadn’t let her do so in the lab. So she had quit. It had been a mistake. She saw it now, but she still had her machine and one day it would work. She only had to figure out what was going on with the whole radiation part and the Big Bang thing.

She settled at her work desk, drawing the machine out from under the sheet she had covered it with.

The prompts are from the book A Year of Creative Writing Prompts.

I found writing hard today. My head feels sticky and unmotivated. I wanted to finish the last piece, but I had no energy for it. I wanted her to discover a hidden universe, but writing such a scene would have demanded more words, and I think I’m fresh out of words.

Thank you for reading! I wish you all the words you can muster to make your day divine ❤