My frozen tootsies have almost thawed thanks to two weeks of your sun-inspired sagas. One particular tale even left me with a sensation of the warm and fuzzy kind, you can find it thanks to Series of Adjustments’ blog here.
This week’s feline growl has told me of the prompt ‘Edge‘.
You have a two weeks to craft your stories of 400 words or less. Remember to pingback to this post, include the tag ‘Literary Lion’ so we can find all your stories in the WP reader, and of course give me a shoutout on Instagram and twitter.
Here is my edgy tale (with a photo inspired by this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge)…
Step Away.
I looked straight ahead. All I could see were the leaves whispering in the trees at the bottom of the ravine. His shadow lumbered into my peripheral. I felt the heat of his body as he eased closer. His toes grazed the edge with mine, causing the soil to melt away in tumbling crumbs.
“I always knew you would come here,” he said.
“I know” I replied. “When you step out it’s like flying.”
“I know” he replied.
Thank you so much for the recognition, I’m really glad you liked it! Another brilliant tale with so many questions behind it, great work!
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Have to agree with Laura here, your story was lovely. Click on the link people …
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It was deserved! And thank you too! 🙂
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Ah I loved your story too SOA! I’m glad Laura picked it out 🙂
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As ever, you set the bar high for who follow in your footsteps (over the edge?) Lots of open questions and possibilities here. Isn’t that the fun – show, don’t tell. Have re-read it four times now, and have a consistent reading in my mind – so I’m happy.
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Ah the ever repeated writing mantra, it makes my lip curl… True though, so I guess that is why. Thank you, I’m sure you’ll be flinging yourself over the borders with the best of them 😉
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Short and punchy. Do they know because they’ve been there before? Or is it what they’re telling themselves to make the step over easier? I’m intrigued and I like being intrigued 🙂
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Good story. I like how he knew she would come, makes it mysterious.
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Thank you! I was aiming for mysterious, so I’m glad it seems to be working!
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Short and sweet, leaves us wanting more! I have a feeling these two are thrill seekers… or perhaps (because I like to go dark) jumping off the edge is an addiction of some sort to distract them from a greater pain. Oh, I do love trying to figure out the story behind the story!
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Thanks! It’s interesting to hear the different interpretations, there’s always something I hadn’t thought of myself!
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Good story, lots of questions to leave to our imaginations!
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Oh creepy, sad, reads full of hurt to me.
Nothing springs to mind for me yet so I think I will sleep on it and hope for an idea 🙂
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Very interesting and scary story. It makes me think of his ghost welcoming her at the bottom of the ravine.
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Thanks! Great interpretation, you’re not far from my original idea when I was writing it.
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Hey Laura, stumbled upon this and decided to jump in and give it a shot – 400 words on the dot – hope you enjoy and thank you for the challenge:
https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/literary-lion-challenge-edge
love brett fish
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Sorry for my tardiness, I’ve been a little ‘I Smith Words’ neglectful this week. Thank you for joining in, I look forward to reading more 🙂
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My attempt. Am I late?
https://thisismyironlung.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/literary-lion-edge/
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It’s every fortnight now 🙂
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Perfect. I completely lost track of when the prompt was posted (and was clearly too lazy to look). Thanks.
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Not late at all, the same cannot be said for me however… I shall hurry on over to you now.
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Someone has been having too much fun recently.
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You can never have too much fun.
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I think your piece inspired me to be honest Laura! Thanks for the great read.
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Thank you Donna! 🙂
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I must be losing my brain cells because I couldn’t understand this in the first go. I reread this and I was like wow.
Great post Laura!
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Thanks, I’ll take that as a compliment and not that I wasn’t conveying it very well… I think, haha 🙂
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There is something about this that is all too familiar and inviting in its very haunted way.
My very belated contribution can be found here: http://wp.me/p3LEiB-9M
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