a monday morning fairy tale

[lagilman]

....Early in the morning, deep inside the building, rising through the grates, came the terrible sound. *Ka-Thump!Ka-thump!Ka-thud!*

"Momma Two Legs," Boomer cried, his tail fluffed and his whiskers worried. "What is it? Will it eat me? Should I attack?"

"Silly Boomer," Momma Two Legs said. "It's nothing to fear, merely the dragon that sleeps within the building, awakening with a bump and a stir."

"But will it eat me," Boomer worried, for he was a boy of small and focused brain.

"It will not eat you," Momma Two Legs said. "It has no interest in cats, but eats dogs instead. That is why we have none in the building."



Somewhere there's a story in that. *pokes brain* Let's get to that soonish, shall we? *brain pokes back* As soon as you finish all the stuff you've already promised people, sure, we'll hop right on that. Sheesh. Have some more coffee, Gilman, and get to work.

Comments

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Boomer worried, for he was a boy of small and focused brain.

:D Yes I am!

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I think that was a pretty good story in and of itself.

[lagilman]

a judicious *no comment* from this corner...

[lagilman]

but...why a dragon? did the dogs go, get et, or be sent away? And how do the two-legs living there feel about all that?

questions. always questions. that's where all stories begin, donchaknow.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated: saw this (http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-morning-person-lemurs.jpg) today and thought of you.

[infiniteviking]

Mmm, a plot scrap which could go in all sorts of directions.... Fine example of how cat-watching can be an inspiration as well as a means of procrastination. *grins*

[lagilman]

yeah, it was pointed out to me already. *grins* Although why they labeled them as lemurs...really, I sigh for the animal husbandry skills of the 'net generation...

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

LOL, I figured you had seen it already.

I almost ripped a poor zoo-going parent a new one, when, standing in front of a hippo, said to his kid, "Look, it's a rhino!" GAH.

[karenetaylor.livejournal.com]

Ha!

Yes, there's a story there. Get to it. (I know, I'm a fine one to talk...)

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

You do that so well. It read like atmosphere.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

see, this is why I don't write, but read authors such as you. Because I read blurbs and say "Hmmm, that was good." I don't ask questions unless I read things over and over again. Or unless I am told to. But thats an occupational hazard.

[handlebar605.livejournal.com]

suricattus
but...why a dragon?

because the building is next door to a goblin run bank?

well, it's dirrty & smelly & when it gets old, it has problems keeping it's pilot light lit :-}

[tina-jens.livejournal.com]

I'd bet money you could sell it as a flash fiction right now.