DRABBLE STORY ARC #1: UNTIL LUCK RUNS OUT
A Bizarre and Tiny Court
A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story — Drabble edition!
This is a continuation of You Are Dead, a Choose Your Own Adventure Story — Drabble Edition started by Bradan Writes Stories. Find out how to contribute here, or return to the previous chapter: “The Ancient Artefacts Vanish Before Your Eyes”, or “Let Death Wait His Turn”.
This is also a response to Bradan Writes Stories’s Monday Mashup #8 — find out more below!
Proceeding, you suddenly shrink to bug-size, then see a dozen fluttering fairies.
“Stand trial,” cries one. “You stomped our temple!” He points at your footprint.
“Huh? I thought ’twas an anthill!!”
“Criminal!”
“Never ask a lizardman for directions,” you mutter.
A fiery flash! You fall, then find your feet in a finely-furnished fairy courtroom. “The Authority!” says the nearest fairy, pointing.
“Nay,” says an older fairy in a wig. “I’ve yet to call the authority.” He lifts a phone.
“Turn me back,” you say, sitting. But the chair yelps and scuttles away.
“How do you plead?” demands the older fairy.
Do you…
As noted above, this is a response to the latest Monday Mashup challenge. See my score below!
Thank you also to Jann Christoph von der Pütten, whose ‘September Tiny Prompts’ was another influence on the piece, as well as the source of the header image.
Main prompt: On your way home, you knock over an anthill. The next day you receive a letter summoning you to magic court for “wanton destruction of Faerie property. (kinda? 2pts)Constraints:
Someone falls down (the MC; 1 pt)
A sentient chair gets angry when someone tries to sit on it (1 pt)
The authorities threaten to call the authorities (1 pt)
Include the phrase “Never ask a ____ for directions.” (1 pt)Hardcore Constraint:
Include a tautogram — all of the words in a sentence or phrase begin with the same letter. (various in the paragraph beginning 'A fiery flash' - 2pts).Total: 8pts + 1 for this section = 9pts.Come join us at Choose Your Own Adventure–Collaboration to contribute, or check out the examples below.
