Weekly Prompt: Lost and Found
Every character wanders but are they truly lost?
Welcome to the second weekly challenge for June, where the theme is Unoriginal.
As we said in the Monthly Theme announcement, the goal is to get us to overcome our fears of being unoriginal, of accidentally borrowing, by downright stealing and making our own.
This week you need to choose a Stolen World that captivated you or creeped you out and drop in a favourite and famous character. In medias res, right into the thick of things.
Choose Indiana Jones or James Bond, choose any famous protagonist or supporting character or villain. Take someone well-known and well-loved and make them a part of one of the worlds described this week.
But not your own.
Choose a world that is different from their natural habitat. Put tigers into urban jungles and spies into knitting circles.
Don’t give us their exact name, a variation or part of it is fine. This week your story must be a full story. Beginning, middle and satisfying ending.
Let us guess who they might be, share your guesses in the comments.
Help the author see how what is an obvious theft to them may or may not be obvious to you. I don’t know about you but I found it pretty damn tricky working out those stolen worlds.
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Find a lost soul (famous character) and thrust them into a stolen world you found thrilling.
- In your bio, link to the original Stolen World story and in a non-spoiler fashion to the character as well. For those who can’t guess but must know.
- Be a complete story exactly 200 words long, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
- Be fictional, even if it includes factual information or concerns.
- Use “Lost and Found” as one of your five tags.
In combination, two things become more than the sum of their parts.
