100 Words: The first one up the stairs

In the cellar of a London school in 1963 it materialised, a shining white pillar of horror.  Taking in its immediate surroundings the creature inside the case started to roll forward, the greatest enemy of its people in its sights.  What glory would follow for them all with the death of this man of many faces. 

The Doctor turned and fled up the stairs.  “Once you would have been safe,” the creature thought, “But something inside me is new.“ 

As the Doctor found the door locked he turned back and saw the Dalek advancing upon him, floating up the stairs.

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Note: A re-telling of the end of Episode 1 of Remembrance of the Daleks.

100 Words: Thinking Bench

I sat there, on my last night before leaving the country, thinking about how it had changed for me. 

I used to sit in the same place as a child thinking about the life I had planned out in my mind.

Then I discovered there was a rest of the world and my country suddenly seemed very small indeed.

Following years of work and planning, I sat there contemplating my new and immediate future.

I wasn’t scared, I was excited, full of such gleaming excitement to leave for the wider world.

Now back, my wanderlust fulfilled, I wonder, “What next?”

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Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt:

 

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100 Words: Two Uses for a Staff

While living as an old man the wizard discovered the usefulness of carrying a staff.  “I shall have to share this at the next AGM,” he decided.

Chris had been in the Alps for some years, initially adopting the guise of an old man as a pretence for using a staff to help with walking up and down hillsides- something only the very old seemed to do.

This was before wizards went into hiding, when everyone would cheekily ask the root of their power.  Chris found people naturally began to believe it was the staff.  Very convenient it therefore became.

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Written for 100 Word Challenge #400 on Velvet Verbosity; the prompt was the word Staff.

100 Words: Maisie

The kitchen staff slept under the great heavy wooden table that ran down the room’s centre. For they had duties through the night, a fire to keep ever alight.

Maisie didn't mind, she learned to live with only a few hours sleep for she loved the time lying awake- precious time kept for herself.

Each night she would give stories to the stars, advancing her tales and adventures as time wore on.  One day she would recall them for her children but for now she would lie happily awake creating other worlds far away, full of mayhem, monsters and mischief.

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Written for 100 Word Challenge #400 on Velvet Verbosity; the prompt was the word Staff.

100 Words: A Fear of Security

I used to shoplift out of necessity.  Before my eventual capture, imprisonment, and retraining, I sometimes set off alarms before running very quickly.

Now, as then, I’ve a fear of security gates- those tall thin sentinels still make my heart race, send shivers through me and make me sweat.  Even at the library, my books checked out and passed around, I still fear I’ll need to run, I still adopt a veneer of innocence.

These days, though, as I get older, I have the added fear that if I should set it off somehow, it’ll give me a heart attack.

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Written for the Light and Shade Challenge from the following picture prompt:

 

Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons, taken by AlejandroLinaresGarcia and shared under Creative Commons

100 Words: I am not insane but I do dream the future

I’m not insane (I’ve been tested) but I do have a strange belief that I hang onto no matter how many people say they I am wrong.

You see I can dream the future.  I am absolutely certain I do.  Only small, inconsequential things that, when they then happen, I experience as a sort of extreme, incredibly lucid deja vu because I have already dreamed it.  And so, for a few seconds I know what will happen.  I tell people straight away.  That I knew already.  They think I am insane.  But I have been tested and I am not.

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Written for the Light and Shade Challenge from a quote from The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon: "I'm not insane.  My mother had me tested."

100 Words: Turning the tide

I chained up my horse and got on with it.  What else could I do?  When you’ve been blackmailed with your family’s safety you can be made to do anything.

Including turning the tide.

I was meant to shoot up the bank, being sure to kill the manager after forcing him to remove certain items from the vault. 

But I had a better knowledge of what was in the vault.  It wasn’t all money, jewels and deeds of a property nature.  There were magical deeds as well.

Upon casting the spell I sighed in relief and returned to my steed.

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Written for the Light and Shade Challenge from the following picture prompt:

 

Image courtesy of Wiki Commons and used under the Creative Commons Agreement, taken by Tony Bowden in Tallinn, Estonia