Twitter/Facebook Prompt Week
Sunday prompts
Just a heads up that this week I am doing a Twitter/Facebook prompt with a twist. I’m providing an image and asking followers for three prompt words to go with it. I will publish the stories I write around those words here in Fiction in 50. I would love you to read and enjoy them, but you signed on for a single story three times a week (plus Sunday’s post). Feel free to read or ignore these extra offerings.
I received four prompts today in relation to this image. Here are the four stories I wrote.
Benevolence
Shelby’s breath stopped as she saw her toddler caught in the luminous beam emanating from a strange sky-ship.
Life was hard on the prairie, with little to offer her child but a life of work. As a tricycle gently descended toward Joshua, she breathed out silent thanks for the gift.
Twitter prompt from @ChristyKimmerly: luminous, prairie, gift
Well Read
With growth hormone deficiency, Adam, at eight, looked like a four-year-old. Children his age ignored him and those he resembled, bored him. Lonely, he read. A lot!
When the spaceship arrived, he saw it as his portal to the stars. Riding the beam, he set off on a grand adventure.
Twitter prompt from @KieraLawley: portal, stars, adventure
Tenacity
Anna, having lost so much, thought it might end her, as a beam of light drew her only child through the air to a waiting spaceship. But she was a survivor.
Running full tilt, she jumped into the beam, grabbing hold of Toby, determined to take this journey with him.
Twitter prompt from @imagestoby: survivor, journey, end
Home
Kenny sat alone in the vast field. Abandoned by an unknown parent, he had been adopted by the farmers who had found him out there three years ago.
The boy often sat there, as if waiting. Today, he watched in awe as the spaceship he barely remembered returned for him.
Facebook prompt from Laura Gannon: awe, unknown, alone
I hope you enjoyed these four stories. Hopefully there will be more tomorrow, if I receive prompts from the next image. As always, I love feedback, as well as reader prompts (comment button below). If you haven’t subscribed already, click on the subscribe button to receive my tiny stories direct to your inbox.
As you can see, I had fallen behind in my emails... I love the first story. We seem to have come to view a visit from an alien ship with beams of light projecting down to the earth as something negative. Science fiction, conspiracy theories, watching too much Twilight Zone as a child, whatever. To have this image turned into a story of benevolence is wonderful!! It stills warms my heart.
My first thought at seeing the picture was "There's a rapture for tricycles? Nice use of the words presented to you.