Verity's Book 2.0

Flash Fictions

So on Instagram I decided to enter this fun prompt contest. Three prompts and a 100-words-or-less story for each.

I actually only got to do two of the prompts, because I was super busy during the middle one, but I thought I'd share them here for funsies. It was a really enjoyable exercise and neither story took more than 45 minutes to write. (I wanna say less but the first one gave me a little trouble and I'm not sure how long it took)

Prompt 1 [Untitled Story]
Picture of dragon flying over barren landscape with rock formations in the distance

"May he send you a dragon under the sun."

A blessing, they said. She knew it was a curse.

So she had fled by night, until she was far beyond the region where men believed such things. And still the dragon found her, at last, under the sun.

She scorned his approach, hiding her fear under laughter. Sand skittered over her arms in the hot, dry wind as she nocked an arrow and sighted at the shining span of wings.

Its lonely cry echoed over the barrens, begging her to pity it.

But she had forgotten pity long ago.

Prompt 3 [Untitled Story]
Picture of gargantuan spine (or possibly tail?) rooted in sand dunes with two miniscule human figures studying it

Some say it means dire things for any who walk beneath its shadow.

Some say that signs can be read in the cracks of its sun-brittled bones.

Some say it is a gateway to the spirit lands.

But it is none of these; only the lonely remains of a great earth-shaker who lay down and died before my father's fathers were born. I have seen more like it, in the clefts of the great mountains, and fed them with my hands. Their lips are gentle.

So I listen to the foreigner ramble on and on beside me, and I smile.

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Do y'all like writing for prompts? I think photo-based prompts are super fun, but I balk at word-based prompts. I guess because I'm just that arrogant and want the words to be mine, not anybody else's. XD