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The late morning was clear and crisp as Sawyer Roth stepped
out of the travel hostel. Suddenly, an overpowering smell of roses assailed his
nostrils, followed by a taste like sour milk. He clasped his hands over his
mouth. After all, it wouldn’t do for a civilized man to vomit on the street in the
sight of the good folk out for a cool lunchtime stroll.
Sawyer hurried to the lavatory. After many miserable moments
of seemingly endless sickness spewing from deep within him, he collapsed against
the toilet, trying to bring the dry heaves under control. A halo began to form
around his vision, and Sawyer knew that a skull-splitting headache would follow
as it had every time since the first moment that he had breathed in the cloying
scent of roses at five years old.
Sawyer explained to the sweet hostel-keeper that he was experiencing
a migraine headache and wondered if she could provide him with a private room
where he could pull the curtains and ride it out. He promised that he would pay
extra, but the grandmotherly Desideria Ferrari wouldn’t hear of it. She rang for
her assistant to take over at the desk, then hustled Sawyer into the rickety
elevator and took him to a cozy little flat on the fourth floor.
“I have this room ready for my grandchildren when they come
visit,” Signora Ferrari explained. “You call if anything you need, Signore. Tea,
food, I fix for you. Ay, povoretto! The migraine headaches are un fardello
terribile. I pray you rest well and dream them away. Nel nome del padre e del
figlio e dello spirito santo. Amen.”
“Grazie Signora,” Sawyer responded, grimacing. “Perhaps you
could bring me a glass of water so I can take my medicine and I would
appreciate if you might fix me a pot of weak tea and leave it for me to drink
throughout the day. Molte grazie per la vostra gentilezza.”
Desideria brought Sawyer some water and he swallowed his
tablets.
“Rubbish setback this is,” he sighed. “I’ve not been back to
jolly old Crouch End since I left at eighteen. Hopefully, this is the nadir of
this trip. I wished to be off to the London museum to see that glorious new
Renaissance art display. Well, I’ve had to inure these rotten headaches putting
a dent in me best-laid plans from the time I was a knee-high nipper so it’s not
as if it’s taken me by surprise.”
“Eh, the art has been around since the Renaissance, no? It
will be there tomorrow or the next day. You rest now, dolce figlio di Dio.”
The touch of the kindly old woman’s fingers on his temples
soothed Sawyer, and he drifted off to sleep. She pulled the door closed quietly
and made the sign of the cross before leaving.
The Cerenarian Sea is part of H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands.
It appears in his story Celephais, first publication The Rainbow, May 1922.
“Seventeen” is a power-pop song released in 1988 by Winger.
The line “I like my girls a little bit older” comes from the
song “Your Love,” released in 1986 by The Outfield.
Prompts Used
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/wordle-207-2/
Strong
Setback
Milk
Cool
Deep
Inure- to grow accustomed to something undesirable
Nadir- the lowest point
Man
Hands
Sight
Touch
Lover
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/first-line-friday-september-25th-2020/
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/tale-weaver-294-epic-fail-24th-september/
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/photo-challenge-333/
https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/plot-twist-story-prompts-divine-act
For today's prompt, have something unexpected and
uncontrollable happen.
Write about a character who smells something familiar and is
instantly taken back to the first moment they smelled it.
This piece was submitted to https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
on 27 September 2020 for the above prompt. It was also inspired by the
following prompt.
Write about a character who’s obsessed with an era they
never lived through.
Translations
Povoretto = poor fellow
un fardello terribile = a terrible burden
Nel nome del padre e del figlio e dello spirito santo. = in
the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
Molte grazie per la vostra gentilezza. = many thanks for
your kindness
Frozen Crimes Blog Hop Prompt: Whom would you want to be stuck with during a blizzard, and what would you do?
My Answer:
Go ahead, roll your eyes. But I would like to be stuck with Stephen King, and we would write. His wife could be there too. I promise I wouldn't Annie Wilkes him. Although I may bear a physical resemblance to Kathy Bates, I am mostly harmless.
Kathy Bates could be there too. She seems like a cool person.
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When disasters strike around every corner, is it possible to have a happily-ever-after?
BLURB: Beth and Donovan are expecting their first child. Life
couldn’t get any better…until a stalker makes his presence known. This person
sends disturbing messages and unsettling items, but it isn’t long before his
menacing goes too far.
Hoping for a
peaceful Christmas, Donovan takes Beth to Michigan. Days into their trip, a
winter storm named Nemesis moves in with the goal of burying the state.
Snowdrifts surround their house, and the temperature drops below freezing.
Except, the storm
isn’t the only nemesis they must face. Everyone’s lives are at stake—especially
that of their unborn child. Will they survive, or will they become a frozen
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The crunch of the
shovel pounding into the snow and ice filled his ears. It was all he could
hear. The rest of the street was silent beneath its wintry blanket. Breathing
was difficult with the icy air clogging his lungs. His nose burned. His throat
was dry and on fire. But he ignored it, focusing on his task.
Crack,
crack, crack.
He jabbed the
shovel into a hunk of snow. On the third hit, it shattered into several pieces.
He scooped them up and flung them to the side. He surveyed what remained. There
was one big ball in the middle of the path that needed to be dealt with next.
He moved over to it and struck it. That one impact had it severing in two. He
was about to hit it again when something crashed into the back of his head.
Explosions of
white light danced over his vision. Pain enveloped his skull.
The shovel
slipped from his fingers. Blackness cloaked his mind, coaxing him into its
depths.
Beth. Her name was a whisper in his head, as if his thoughts
were being sucked into a wormhole.
His legs
collapsed under his weight.
Cold. It seeped
into him, consuming him. And then his consciousness fled down that same void
that ate his thoughts.
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Geeky Gandy Stafford's lifelong fantasy comes true when he meets the otherworldly Dorma and Desyra. These last remnants of a botched extraterrestrial invasion discover that they require a great deal of energy to maintain their human forms.
The easiest way to obtain essential power?
Sex, and lots of it.
The Snippet
(Last week, Gandy drove the aliens home in his luxurious 1975 Ford Pinto.)
“Yeah, that would make it inconvenient. I wouldn’t mind much
if Earth got taken over. Most people here are kind of crappy. Well, here we
are. I don’t have much, I need to go shopping tomorrow, but you’re welcome to
whatever you can find in the cabinets or the refrigerator. Um...like, I don’t
even know what you eat, so, hopefully I have something that you can eat.”
“We absorb energy,” said Dorma.
“Oh, okay. So, you, like, plug your finger into a light
socket or something?”
The alien looked at Gandy, puzzled.
“We absorb life energy,” she said.
“Oh. Hey! I thought you said you weren’t going to eat me!”
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“In you go, you lot,” Robin cackled. “I dare you!”
“There is no need for dares, you rotted potato!” Ketil
grumbled. “We was, in any case, going to enter this place not well to enter
even before you came along.”
“There is no need to refer to me as a rotted potato, you
hothead!” Robin shot back. “Take meself to Sweden and gnaw on your tough old
jerky of a carcass, I ought. Just for spite, I might.”
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Geeky Gandy Stafford's lifelong fantasy comes true when he meets the otherworldly Dorma and Desyra. These last remnants of a botched extraterrestrial invasion discover that they require a great deal of energy to maintain their human forms.
The easiest way to obtain essential power?
Sex, and lots of it.
The Snippet
“This car is kind of a zero,” he apologized. “I don’t know
how it even keeps running.”
“It is transportation,” Desyra said matter-of-factly.
“Yeah, that’s true. Transportation it is. Hopefully, it will
transport us to my place without a problem. Okay, so I live in a little
townhouse by myself, but my pops owns it, and we’ll have to be quiet. My
neighbors are kind of busybodies, and they’d be more than happy to tell my old
man that I brought home a couple of girls. He probably wouldn’t believe
anything happened, so I guess it really doesn’t matter, though. Say, your
people are pretty advanced, right? Why don’t you just take over the planet?”
“That was our fleet’s orders. But there are only two of us
now.”
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