Friday May 28th, 2021

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose about: a murmuring mountain.

Because screw it, why not.

2 comments:

Greg said...

Well, I'm still holding out for my other suggestions for a theme, but I'll throw another one in as well to increase my chances: a cooing chthonian :) Although, thinking about it, that's actually what you've offered us today, isn't it?

A murmuring mountain
"And that," said Isabella Bonfontaine pointing with her walking stick, "is the murmuring mountain under which we are likely to find this artefact you are after."
Justin looked nervous and halted, asking "A murmuring mountain is just a volcano, right?"
"Not in this case," said Isabella, smiling with the half of her face that a stroke hadn't paralysed years ago, "because the mountain is riddled with chthonians. The murmuring you'll be hearing very soon is them cooing to their offspring when they're very young."

Marc said...

Greg - hah, if I'd only I'd known how eager for more of these you were :P

Uhhh... I hope the artifact is worth the trouble? Probably not, but one can hope.