Disclaimer - it kinda turned into a longer “flash fiction” or a shorter “short story” - try to keep it around 200 words if possible.
The prompts I was given were as follows:
GENRE = Sci-Fi
CHARACTER = Jockey
OBJECT = Coaster
Your interpretation of the prompts don’t have to be exact, choose your own if you want, but make the Genre, Character and Object random. Try to keep it as close to 200 words as you can.
The sudden appearance of almost translucent silvery blue discs hovering above us in the morning sky had spooked us both, and she’d taken off just before I could dismount. With only one foot in a stirrup, I clung to her neck, trying to get back in the saddle.
Her hooves, drum-rolling in a seemingly never ending rollerCOASTER ride up and over one frost-hardened hill after another, barely drowned out the static hum building in the air all around us. Or was it building in my head?
Panic rising, I urged her on, “Faster girl, FASTER!”
A tangible blinding flash as something hit us HARD and the nothingness of dark swallowed us whole.
I don’t know how much time had passed as I briefly opened my eyes, instantly snapping them shut again. That sun was bright. I guessed it must have been around midday. Must have fallen asleep in the sun.
No... Wait... the sun doesn’t rise that high or get THAT hot in December. So why did my skin feel so sunburnt?
As my mind tried to organise itself I heard my filly whinnying and attempted to sit up, but was prevented from doing so.
Something cold shot up inside my arm and everything melted away.
The next time I came to, a nurse-shaped blur was stood at the end of my bed, recording my vitals onto what I imagined was a clipboard. As she came into focus, reality revealed something quite different. She... She?... No... IT... It fixed it’s eyes on me. Unblinking, large, black, insectoid eyes.
Feigning continued sleep, I slowly moved my head to one side. I thought my heart was going to explode through my ear and out onto the pillow as fear pulsed through my veins. Please don’t notice my pounding heart.
Fear was replaced with sadness as a window came into view.
Through it, I could see a familiar blue globe, suspended in the blackness of space.
I watched, disconnected now, through half-closed, tear-filled eyes as it grew smaller and smaller until finally, it disappeared completely.
The prompts I was given were as follows:
GENRE = Sci-Fi
CHARACTER = Jockey
OBJECT = Coaster
Your interpretation of the prompts don’t have to be exact, choose your own if you want, but make the Genre, Character and Object random. Try to keep it as close to 200 words as you can.
The sudden appearance of almost translucent silvery blue discs hovering above us in the morning sky had spooked us both, and she’d taken off just before I could dismount. With only one foot in a stirrup, I clung to her neck, trying to get back in the saddle.
Her hooves, drum-rolling in a seemingly never ending rollerCOASTER ride up and over one frost-hardened hill after another, barely drowned out the static hum building in the air all around us. Or was it building in my head?
Panic rising, I urged her on, “Faster girl, FASTER!”
A tangible blinding flash as something hit us HARD and the nothingness of dark swallowed us whole.
I don’t know how much time had passed as I briefly opened my eyes, instantly snapping them shut again. That sun was bright. I guessed it must have been around midday. Must have fallen asleep in the sun.
No... Wait... the sun doesn’t rise that high or get THAT hot in December. So why did my skin feel so sunburnt?
As my mind tried to organise itself I heard my filly whinnying and attempted to sit up, but was prevented from doing so.
Something cold shot up inside my arm and everything melted away.
The next time I came to, a nurse-shaped blur was stood at the end of my bed, recording my vitals onto what I imagined was a clipboard. As she came into focus, reality revealed something quite different. She... She?... No... IT... It fixed it’s eyes on me. Unblinking, large, black, insectoid eyes.
Feigning continued sleep, I slowly moved my head to one side. I thought my heart was going to explode through my ear and out onto the pillow as fear pulsed through my veins. Please don’t notice my pounding heart.
Fear was replaced with sadness as a window came into view.
Through it, I could see a familiar blue globe, suspended in the blackness of space.
I watched, disconnected now, through half-closed, tear-filled eyes as it grew smaller and smaller until finally, it disappeared completely.
And just like Orison to do the right thing quite by chance 
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