Just a short one today as I've only got three more days of the 7-day story challenge and I've got SO much work to do! I've got a fresh pot of coffee on the go, my music lined up, timer clicking away, and 3 more stories to finish.
Let's do this ...
I really struggled yesterday and only managed 1000 words. Cat went in for her operation so I think my mind was all over the place. Still, 1000 words is a 1000 words is a 1000 words.
SCOREBOARD
Story 1 - 3051 words
Story 2 - 3048 words
Story 3 - 573 words
Story 4 - 0
Story 5 - 0
A new story idea every single day.
Check out the previous ideas here
IDEA 120: PILLS.
Maybe a children's story?
There's an incredibly lonely man who keeps swallowing people he meets and washing them down with a glass of water. He doesn't ask for permission. At the first sign that a person may like him in any way whatsoever, he picks them up, opens up his mouth extra wide, and throws them in like a pill, and he washes them down.
The only thing is, these people don't like being swallowed.
At night-time, they gather up somewhere inside and give him a telling off.
"I'm just so lonely," he cries.
But it's only after one the people he's swallowed talks to the man and makes a genuine connection does he finally let them out.
-- Imagine the visuals of a man's mouth opening real wide to swallow someone. I quite like kids storytelling techniques used to talk about adult themes. There's something oddly horrific about them.
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