Monday, March 5, 2012

Nica's Find


The ball sailed through a gap in the balcony rail and Trey said a word his mother wouldn't approve of. Well, that was that. The ball was in the Undercity now and Trey would never see it again.

Veronica saw the ball crash down from the pristine world lurking above her own. She nudged her cousins and they rushed over to hunt for it in the field of rubbish. An undamaged Uppercity object could be worth some serious money.

The others searched for the ball, but Nica was distracted by a swirl of magic coming from a spot under the nearest Uppercity bridge. Her oldest cousin swatted her shoulder and told her to pay attention, but she ignored him to follow her new lead.

A wooden stirrer lay half-burried beneath a broken doll. It hummed with energy as Nica grabbed it and a vortex of water began to swirl above it.

Shocked, Nica dropped the stirrer and stumbled backwards. Her leg caught on a rusty support beam, opening a gash on her calf. But she felt no pain because she was too busy being stunned by the wet water genie bowing before her.

The genie smiled. “What is your wish?”




This is in response Rachel Harrie's Second Campaigner Challenge of her fourth campaign. The exact prompt was kinda long, so check it out there if you're curious. :) It involved four unconnected images (the above being my favorite) and a brief written description of a situation.

13 comments:

  1. Aww, such a cool idea! Did not see that coming! Also, loved the idea of uppercity and lowercity! I'd be interested to see how this story played out!

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  2. Wow.. so like a dystopian genie? Now that's original, (at least to me), and interesting. You could really take that a number of places. Good creativity.

    Kevin (#19)

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  3. I love the idea of Uppercity and Undercity! I really do. You should totally use that in a real project!

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  4. Interesting idea. I loved the uppercity/lowercity situation.

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  5. Great idea. You should continue on with this story.

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  6. That is a nice combination of all the prompts. You also did a nice job of setting the piece.

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  7. Really imaginative take on the prompts. I agree with the others, the Undercity/Uppercity has a lot of potential. So does the genie! Nice cliffhanger.

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  8. I really like it. Very original and a good use of the prompts.
    Melissa Maygrove #14

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  9. a genie? yay! i pronounce that your entry has made it to stage 2!
    great job!

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  10. Great job!! The genie was a real surprise!!

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  11. Creative and original! Mostly very fun to read.

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  12. That was a quirky way to incorporate all the prompts. Enjoyed the read. :)

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