© Ayr/Gray
A magical new weekly writing opportunity from me – Jenne Gray – and him – C. E. Ayr.
Visit this blog every Friday, read an amazing story from each of us, and then post your own even better effort in the comments below.
Or on your own blog and stick the link down in the comments.
The rules are:
Maximum of 250 words.
Based on photo prompt above.
That’s it.
Tales from Glasgow 
And here’s C. E. Ayr, with explanation attched:
https://ceayr.com/2023/05/11/lights-out-unicorn-challenge/
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Succinct and very tense with a good wee twist. Revenge murder always feels sad though.
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Gone all nostalgic this week. https://sixcrookedhighways.com/2023/05/12/a-bracing-tale/
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And here’s mine:
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I said I would contribute… sometime. Because occasionally I worry WordPress will have changed too much for me to fathom out how it works if don’t keep my hand in. 🙂 Well done you two. https://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/the-spectator-unicorn-challenge-12-5-23/
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What a pleasure to see you here, Sandra, and your story is everything I hoped for. Thanks for joining us.
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[…] This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge. […]
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… (damn, thought I could leave this off without being noticed), except there, looming in an upstory window (like Riff Raff in that scene in RHPS when the song… ‘there’s a light’ plays…) is ceayr ‘the Baleful’
(damn, appears that I didn’t use up my morning supply of words. That’s what I get for trying a ‘one-take post’ (sorry jenne)
https://wakefielddoctrine.com/2023/05/12/fading-form-fridae-the-wakefield-doctrine/
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It’s only me!
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And here’s mine: https://theelephantstrunk.org/2023/05/13/the-long-and-winding-road/
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[…] The Unicorn Challenge posts a picture each Friday and dares us to write an amazing story with a maximum of 250 words. I read nothing in the rules about a minimum number of words so I wrote nothing and will let the pictures tell my fantasy. […]
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Fear
She hated walking the last hundred yards from the bus stop on the main road to her house.
Between the pools of light was the threat of darkness, something she had feared since early childhood. These days, though, the threat did not consist of strange ectoplasmic creatures sliding menacingly out from under the wardrobe or through the crack beneath the door. Today’s threats, in her anxiety-riddled mind, were muggers, rapists, murderers.
She chided herself. She would not let her mental state take control. She was being ridiculous. Clenching her fists, she walked steadily onwards.
She never reached home.
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Fear very deftly shown in this story, Angela, right from the childhood monsters through to the narrator’s anxiety-ridden mind of the present day.
And a good – if scary – twist at the end.
Thanks so much for taking part. I hope we’ll see you again next week.
PS I copied your story onto this week’s prompt page as well, so that the others could see it. Didn’t want them to moiss it.
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Thanks, Jenne. It can take me a while to think of something so I won’t post every week but I enjoy the challenge.
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