Thank you @mariannewest for another fabulous #freewrite challenge, today's prompt is dream
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This is a stand alone freewrite, although it does follow on from "Jelly". To start at the beginning click here. To read yesterday's part click here.
Mr Billious Jelly was in some ways the exact opposite of his wife. Whilst she was thin, and stick insecty, he was rather large and blobby. He bounced over, like an over enthusiastic beach ball, and looked at the book Mike was holding.
"California, eh?" he said, chuckling for no good reason, that Mike could see.
"Have you read it?" Mike said, for want of anything better to say, and feeling it was probably rude to punch Mr Jelly in the face and run off.
"Oh, no!" he chuckled. "I am what you'd call thinly read. I did dream about going to California, once. It was a strange place. Full of elephants and circus people and giant ants playing the banjo. That was what it was like in my dream anyway. Put me off going. I told Ulsa, 'I'm not going to a place full of banjo playing giant ants!"
He laughed...
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Very short stories (stories told in exactly 50 words)
“Believe in Yourself”
A man in a homemade spacecraft in search of a mythical bridge
@felt.buzz/believe-in-yourself-an-original-science-fiction-story-told-in-fiftywords-for-365daysofwriting-and-fiftywords-challenge
“Love Will Defeat Hate”
Forbidden love.
@felt.buzz/love-will-defeat-hate-an-original-fictional-love-story-in-fiftywords-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge
“Stranded”
Stuck on an island. Can Bill escape, alive?
@felt.buzz/stranded-an-original-fictional-story-told-in-exactly-fiftywords
"Van Diemen's Land"
Crime does pay… if you wanted a one way ticket down under
@felt.buzz/van-diemen-s-land-an-original-fictions-story-told-in-fiftywords
Some more of my short stories
“The Hunt”
Sci-fi: Sam is off to bag some Uglies. Horrible pests they are…
@felt.buzz/the-hunt-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting-challenge
“The Secret”
He has a secret. It runs in the family
@felt.buzz/the-secret-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-weekendfreewrite-challenge
“Trouble”
He loves his wife. But he might have forgotten something…
@felt.buzz/trouble-an-original-work-of-fiction-for-the-365daysofwriting
“The Restless Wandering Shade”
A ghostly tale
@felt.buzz/the-restless-wandering-shade-an-original-fictional-horror-story-based-on-fireawaymarmot-s-song-of-the-same-name
Some big news for me! One of my steemit stories (Reunion - told in 8 parts last month) has been selected to appear in the Isle of Write Anthology (see this post @isleofwrite/isle-of-write-fiction-publication-week-1-roundup). I am so excited to be a part of this. Please pay them a visit and check out the other stories that have been selected too. You too can be curated: so read the post and find out how!
