Every Wednesday visit Madison Wood’s site to see the picture prompt for the week’s 100-word writing challenge. Write a 100-word story or poem that’s inspired by the picture. Post the writing on your blog. On Friday post a link to your blog entry in the comments section of her Friday Fictioneers post.
This is what I came up with this week. A poem, it is less than the target 100 words (60 words), but hopefully I was able to capture the essence of the photo prompt as seen through my eyes and point of view.
As always feel free to join, comments and critiques are welcome. Thank You!
Who knows
What secret it houses?
This old and abandoned
Looking ruins
Not a peep or sound
In the broad and
Illuminating light of day
Except
At night
When all is pitch black
Dark and deathly silent
Then
Shadows creep about
And if you listen closely
A sound can be heard…
A little girl’s screams.
Boomie Bol 
You had me until it got dark. Then I got scared.
Despite the frightening ending – I liked it!
Lol. Yea it was the best I could come up with. Something bout the place spoke dark scary to me.
Thanks 🙂
Good night! Talk about chilling.
I had a moment after taking care of my patient to stop it. What secrets are swirling around that place?
Oh thank you so much :). Hymn who knows these days, perhaps a little girl who has been missing for days, weeks. Perhaps her ghost considering the bastard who captured her killed her after days of torturing her…so many secrets hidden in many places
Now THAT’S a horror story.
Oh really!!! Coming from you SCB, thats a huge cmpliment :). I know you like and appreciate this genre. Thanks so much :).
It’s the beginning of a book.
You are tooooo kind to me :). Thank you
There’s something about spooky places that rouses my curiosity, but I don’t think I’d go near those ruins at night. Reminds me of The Grudge (movie).
Spooky ending.
http://logo-ligi.com/2012/07/06/healing/
Me neither. I don’t think i ever saw the movie fully…only bits of it. I can’t do horror movies. Thanks so much for stopping by. Yours had an uplifting feel to it. It was very hopeful…yes that’s the word i was looking for when i was posting my comment on your page. Hopeful :). Great job!!!
Thanks.
Do you know how to recomend someone for an award-I have never seen how to do it-never been nominated either-how does it work?
Usually a blogger can nominate whomever they want and if the nominee chooses, they can accept and then follow the rules of the award and nominate other bloggers.
Usually i think its bloggers that create them and then pass them along and someone it goes around.
Okay this is creepy! I could just imagine a long time ago, a murder takes place in there! It’s creepy but I like it anyway! 🙂 you’re awesome, Boomie!
Your comment even takes it further… yea i don’t like creepy but it was the best i could come up with this week. So are you Gian Carlo :). Thanks always
Really good! I couldn’t click the like button though. When little ones are involved I just can’t. But this is some powerful imagery in just a few words.
Oh Marian, thank you so much. I really didn’t know what to do with the photo prompt. I typically go with the first thing that comes to my mind, and it was this poem. Thanks a buch, have a wonderful weekend.
nicely done!
Thank you sir
Great imagery as set the reader sup and then quickly took them a surpirisingly scary place all in 60 words! Amazing! You got me with those last 4 terrible (wonderful for horror writers and fans) words.
Russ
Thank you so much. Glad it worked, I honestly didn’t know what to do with the prompt. Have a a great weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the paper marche story…will be by later to like and comment. Thanks always for sharing such uplifting and inspiring stories
I liked it especially for the ending. Great job!
Thank you so much, and many thanks for stopping by my corner.Have a great weekend
HI B. Fantastic imagery. I’ve just nominated you for the Outstanding Blogger Award. If you’d like to accept this award just click on the link
http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/i-love-blogging-outstanding-blogger-award-and-one-lovely-blog-award/
Congratulations.
Thank you so much :).
Yikes! That last line sort of grabbed me by the throat! This is not a bad thing. 😉
http://www.rochelle-wisoff.blogspot.com/2012/07/encampment.html
Thank you so much :). GOing over to yours now
Very eerie feel you created. The last line leaves you hanging….
Thanks for reading – for others, Mine is here: http://erinleary.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/flash-friday-fiction-11/
I’m not usually a fan of poetry, but this piece depicted everything so vividly that I really enjoyed it. And that last line made me shudder. Perfectly pitched.
i’m over at http://elmowrites.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/friday-fiction-breakout/
Thank you so much, and very glad to hear you say that. Yours was very intriguing, well done
Definitely felt the horror vibes around this one!
I would suggest removing “except” — you established no peep or sound in daylight (not nighttime) in the previous verse (so the following verse isn’t actually an exception to the established rule).
I’m over at http://plowright.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/fictioneers-20/ 🙂
Thank you so much. Will go back and see about this.
Scary! I like scary. Liked the shocking ending.
Mine’s here if you’d like a read: http://worksbyclaire.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/100-word-story-music/
Thanks so much, just stopped by yours. Very creative
I listened…but all I heard was my stomach growl…
Could you give me an example of how I would recommend a blogger-do I do it on my regular blog site, is there some link-as usual, I am still lost, boombie, I am learning a lot, but s l o w l y !! beebee
I am not sure i understand what you are trying to do. Recommend a blogger on your site? If yes, you can just click and copy their link…if not could you please clarify :). Been out all day, just getting to the laptop
Sorry-my question got separated from my original problem-I don’t know how to nominate someone for an award-I don’t see a place on my site to do it-I am not to good at “new” concepts, an example of what top write and where to write it would help-where did you find out how to nominate someone? How are you notified if you are nominated? Don’t worry if you don;t have time to deal with this-I get on this blog and it seems to take hours for answering, reading, etc. Im finding it difficult to find time to WRITE. It is nice to see my readership increasing. I have learned a lot and read the work of a lot of great writers! beebee
Oh you just nominate whomever you feel like from your followers. You will usually get a notification from whoever nominates you that links back to their blog on how to accept an award if you have been nominated.
Check on your dashboard, there should be a link that says- blogs i follow. You can chooose people from there.
Hope this makes sense and helps :). We are all still learning the ropes, so don’t worry about it 🙂
Ha ha that must be some EXTREME hunger lol. Glad you didn’t hear the little girl’s screams too scary. lol
As to the previous commenter’s suggestion, I disagree. I think the word “except” applies very well, because as you say at the end, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the screaming.
Very interesting, haunting story.
Thank you so much. I just read it over again and I have to agree with you. The except there creates a smooth transition into the other part of the poem. Thanks so much.
Nice creepy twist at the end.
Oh thank you so much. And many thanks for stopping by to read this.
It is soooooooo good that it gave me chills. The placement of “except” and the last line were brilliant!
Thank soooooooooooo much Susie :).
Ooh, very creepy, and great atmosphere. Sounds exactly like the kind of thing you’d tell kids around a camp fire, camping in the desert (but maybe that’s just me haha). nice one!
Oh absolutely, will scare the knickers off of them lol. Thank you so much for stopping by
A truly spooky place! Good job.
Thank you :)!
chills!
Thank you 🙂
I felt as if I were in the house…Scary.
Yikes…that is scary alright. Thanks so much 🙂
This creepy place is too spooky to be left standing. Abandoned with no roof. Someone should tear it down…unless it’s some sort of landmark. Here’s mine: http://www.triplemoonstar.blogspot.com
Absolutely :). Thanks so much for stopping by mine, i just went over to yours and it was a delight to read. Very clever and funny. Well done
Haunted ruin; good job…
Many thanks 🙂
A haunted house? Beautifully flowing verses
I think so :). Thanks so much Cestone
What a hook! I would read more to see what secrets are hidden in these walls. Well done.
Thank you so much :). Oh so many secrets there I am sure..