Drabble prompt

[jelazakazone]

Here are my rules for the drabbles.  100 words.  No less.  No more.  Write for 15 minutes.  You can use my prompt or not, as you wish.  Write in whatever language you like.  Can be fanfic, original, poetry, non-fiction.  The point here is to loosen up.  Try not to edit too much.  Think of these as imperfect cookies: they may not

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Spiralling Out of Control

[jelazakazone]

Morgana held on to her red hot anger for days, months, years, tightly coiling it inside her, collecting it, until she could contain it no longer.

She felt it release and the relief was enormous. She was no longer being squeezed to death, inch by tedious inch.

But once the stopper came off, she realized the snake was loose. It spiralled up and out of her endlessly, no longer under her control.

Horrified, she could only hang on for the ride, giving in to the anger that fed the evil coil and hope that some day, someone would save her.

Re: Spiralling Out of Control

[celandineb]

I like this! It's like riding a tiger by the tail, but more suitable to the place and time.

Re: Spiralling Out of Control

[jelazakazone]

Thanks! It is kind of like riding a tiger by the tail. I had not made that connection:)

Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward

[celandineb]

"Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward"

As a young child Julian was simultaneously fascinated and terrified by the spiraling descent of his bathwater into the drain. Would he, could he, be sucked down with it? He knew he was too big to fit in the inch-wide hole, but when he put a finger to it, he felt the tug.

The photograph of the Milky Way in his sixth-grade science textbook turned his thoughts outward. It, too, spiraled, but the text explained that the earth's sun was well out on one arm. Julian found his imagination caught by the vision of the earth reaching out into space.

Re: Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward

[jelazakazone]

Oooh, I love this. I love that there are two spirals here and Julian can look inward and outward.

I love how you have these snippets of children who are drawn to the natural universe and excited by it too. It's good to look through the eyes of a child from time to time:)

Re: Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward

[celandineb]

Hee. Thank you! I think maybe it's because I feel pretty childlike whenever I read science stuff; I'm always aware of how very much I don't know. If I ever won the lottery, I'd go back to school for the rest of my life - not for degrees, necessarily, just to take classes, and among the fields I'd study are several science-related ones.

Re: Spiraling Inward, Spiraling Outward

[jelazakazone]

Definitely with you on that feeling! Science stuff has always fascinated me and made me feel the world anew.