During this
second pass through the writing prompts I have been combining them with
whatever events that happen to be going on and have had great success with
that. Today’s event will be the rain. We get so little of it here in the desert
it becomes a reason to celebrate whenever it shows up.
Oddly
enough, the actual prompt is called . . . Celebration. The idea is to make a
story around an unusual holiday. I previously suggested taking a random noun,
or verb, and turning it into a major event. Which makes RAIN
the word for the day.
Rain Day
Once, long
ago, water fell from the skies. They called it “rain.” That was before missiles
scorched the atmosphere – and the people. Now the gathered remnants of humanity
hold on to the vanishing reservoirs of water as best they can. When one of the
underground pools dries up there is war. More of the people die.
When Toge
is assigned the duty of finding another water source for his community to
invade he sets out intent of finding a way to return the water to the skies and
stop humanity from destroying itself one dried up water hole at a time.
Yikes! Good luck to Toge. No unrealistic at all, is it?
ReplyDeleteShannon at The Warrior Muse
Maybe a bit unrealistic, but I hope it has a feel of a grand adventure of the type you would find in the old mythological tales.
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