We’d started loading at the dawning of the third moon. Triage overflowed after the fifth wave from the Kipstanian Crisis. We tried to get the word out to all survivors; transport off our doomed planet ended today.
There would be no more planet to doom.
Flashing a light in the evacuees’ eyes, I direct them to the three loading tents. Green equals “Go”, red “Stop”, and yellow “Caution.” The Kipstanian crisis made id-ing dangerous types easy. Red eyes never made it off the planet. Blue, Brown? Approved.
Then SHE came, one eye blue, one green.
I point. “Yellow tent.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2018)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (08/22/2018): In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes a yellow tent. Where is it and who does it belong to? Think of how the color adds to the story. Go where the prompt leads.
Microfiction Madness: (Based on the picture shown up top) Write a 100 word or less story based on the following photo and scenario. A stranger is staring at you. Why?
Wow, there is so much here, Liz! A planet in crisis, threats from a crisis, a third moon dawning. You make it all clear in so few words. Not sure if I sense hope from her, but something heroic is about to unfold.
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We can only hope!
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What an imaginative take on the prompt, Liz. Enjoyed it!
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Thanks, Molly!
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That is a very well done combining of the two prompts.
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Thanks!
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Oh, I liked this bit of mystery! There’s always someone who doesn’t quite fit in…..
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And therein lies our greatest hope…or our greatest threat…
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The yellow tent is for filling out forms until hell freezes over… or at least until “doomsday”.
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I could make snark comment about State-run offices. But I won’t. 😉
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This has me intrigued. Who is she? Assassin? Princess? Just a normal girl?
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Good guesses, all! And under what circumstances?
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Interesting…. Now I wonder what changes the eyes.
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Mwahahahaha!
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I’m sensing that it’s nothing evil or nefarious.
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Even this shadow doesn’t know….yet!
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