Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for some… thing to devour. “Waffles, waffles would be nice,” he muses while lounging in front of his tv watching a quiz show. The main prize is a kissogram delivered by Michael Sheen. PS: … Continue reading The Sandman Fan Fiction
Riffraff sprayed Magenta’s hair with an aerosol hairspray to sculpt it into the now famous black and white almost triangle. No matter how hard she wagged her head it would stay rigid. The manuscript demanded that Riffraff pulled her onto the bed on top of … Continue reading Frankenfurter Fan Fiction
The bull walrus didn’t understand French but felt good to be out of the jungle. “I am the walrus,” it sang. And gobbled its risotto: Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g joob … Can You Tell a Story in … 32 words including walrus, risotto, … Continue reading The Fab One
The wasp’s diet consisted mainly of cakes, and chivalry meant I placed a small piece out for her. She immediately made a – pardon the pun – beeline for it, making a sharp u-turn pivoting her yellow and black gaster around. It looked like the … Continue reading Taking her out to dinner
“Did you see Maja doing yoga in her pollen breeches?” The drones were sniggering, spread-eagled on passionflowers that looked like spaceships. Unable to feed themselves without the help of worker bees but engaging in tittle-tattle about them nevertheless. Can You Tell a Story in … … Continue reading Males gossiping
My neighbour – the one that lives above me – parks his Lamborghini directly below me. When he leaves before I had my first coffee, I fall out of bed. It’s a tradition by now. I’ve tried stuffing socks in my ears. I’ve tried to … Continue reading A True Story of Sleep, Interrupted
The Fox, so-called for his cunning mind, shook the dust of his shoes and walked into the Insomnia Café in the small seaside town of Scopello in Sicily. He stood directly under the cool fan while he watched a ginger-haired woman passionately swirling around with … Continue reading Sicilian Challenge
A ragman was dozing in the stormproof pergola where he was trying to write a love song. He woke up from his nap, which was nothing more than a catnap, with a jolt when a band marched past with loud, boisterous oompahs. He concentrated again … Continue reading Heartbreak of a literary ragman
The dark castle loomed above the Valley of Holiness where hermits and prophets had pitched their tents. Dearil peered down until he saw him: a tall, painfully thin figure in worn-out dungarees walking with a restrained swagger. Can You Tell a Story in … 37 … Continue reading Inspired by Mark Twain and Terry Pratchett
The sounds of a lonely violin wafted over the packed square. The audience was spellbound, watching the tightrope walker who danced a slow waltz high in the air. A real person would have been squeamish but Lottie, the mannequin dressed in gothic garb, just sank … Continue reading The Free Woman
