I’m grateful for the re-run this week and my thanks to Rochelle and Sandra. Things have been quite difficult the last few weeks, hopefully returning to something resembling normality. Thanks again to Adam Ickes for the photo.
Another photo prompt this week for the wonderful group of writers, who make up the Friday Fictioneers Family. Mother Hen Rochelle Wisoff-Fields takes charge every week, posting the photo – this week courtesy of Adam Ickes – and urging us all to ‘write what we see’. This is what I saw…
Copyright – Adam Ickes
Genre: Horror
Word Count: 100
The Entertainment
Silence as the numbers are called. Nervous boys go to their allotted place, although challenged, no-one refuses. My number is called last. For one brief moment, as I join the other ninety-nine, I consider the challenge. My mother is ill and Mary’s pregnant, but The Glory will change everything, forever.
Outside, we line up shoulder to shoulder. The General reads the rules of ‘The Entertainment’.
You will walk until only one remains; to him will be awarded The Glory – anything he wants for the rest of his…
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Feels like this one could go far. I’d certainly read more. Did you do anything else with it?
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Thank you Graham. I did consider going further with this but got a bit bogged down. However, I have recently gone back to it and now the re-run this week seems quite spooky. Appreciated your comments.
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It’s a great idea to expand on.
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Dear Dee,
This does seem rather spooky. I don’t get the impression that The Entertainment has anything to do with actual entertainment. It has a rather Twilight Zone-ish feel that left me wanting to know more.
I hope things are settling down for you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle
Thank you. It has been quite a trying time one way and another. I haven’t been able to write much at all, though picked up this story and thought I could take it further. Thank you for your kind comments.
Best wishes
Dee
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Oh, I love this. Very dystopian and Hunger Games
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Thank you Neil, you’ve made my day!
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Great story Dee – very sci-fi with a Hunger Games feel to it. A real inhumanity in treating children that way – the sign of tyranny of course. Nice write 🙂
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Thank you Lynn, the original post was back in 2014 and a first for me in a sci-fi/ horror genre. 🙂
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A great read, Dee 🙂
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Hi Dee, great story. Can see them wandering out over the bridge and beginning their journey. Best, Iain
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Hi Iain, thank for reading and following. Pleased you liked the story. Best wishes, Dee
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Puts me in mind of The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman).
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Thanks Adam, and for your photo which I’ve always liked 😀
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Ooh.. I wonder what happens next?
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Thanks for reading, thinking about doing something with this story to take it further, have to work on it. Dee
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It sounds so desperately tragic. Well done, Dee.
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Thank you Sandra, I had forgotten how tragic it was until I re-read it this time.
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The menace in this story permeates every word. Awfully good.
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Thank you Liz, glad you liked it.
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Seems to me you have much more to say!
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Think maybe you’re right….
Thanks for reading.
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A bridge too far methinks. Brilliant.
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Yes, funny how there aren’t many ‘happy’ tales this week.
Thank you for reading.
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I got that dystopian, Hunger-Games-feel, too. When children’s lives are wasted for entertainement, can a society sink lower? Great story.
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Thank you Gabriele. A change of genre for me and not too sure just where it came from, but glad you liked it. Dee
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Yes, I agree, this is a story that cannot be stopped with 100 words.
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