What's In A Place: November 16, 2012
Welcome to the AWOS challenge where you're given a setting, usually just a few sentences, which you must somehow work into the piece you write. You don't have to use the exact wording I do below, just so long as you work the setting into your story in some fashion.
This week, I've taken the setting challenge from a story I wrote several years ago. I hope you enjoy it.
The house at the top of the small hill was made of brick, crumbling to dust in many places. At some point, it had been painted blue, but the color had flaked away in wide swaths, revealing the original red of the brick beneath. The windows along the front of the house were either broken or boarded up, and the ground around the foundation was littered with fallen bricks, pieces of splintered wood, and fragments of glittering glass. Several boards were missing from the front porch, and the ones that remained looked decidedly rotten. Something had smashed into the chimney's right front corner, leaving a large ragged hole, and imparting a precarious lean towards the house's interior.
All entries should be written in your own journal, with a link posted as a reply to this message. Please post your submissions here on or before 11:59 PM Central Time Monday, November 19.
Good luck!
Dan
This week, I've taken the setting challenge from a story I wrote several years ago. I hope you enjoy it.
The house at the top of the small hill was made of brick, crumbling to dust in many places. At some point, it had been painted blue, but the color had flaked away in wide swaths, revealing the original red of the brick beneath. The windows along the front of the house were either broken or boarded up, and the ground around the foundation was littered with fallen bricks, pieces of splintered wood, and fragments of glittering glass. Several boards were missing from the front porch, and the ones that remained looked decidedly rotten. Something had smashed into the chimney's right front corner, leaving a large ragged hole, and imparting a precarious lean towards the house's interior.
All entries should be written in your own journal, with a link posted as a reply to this message. Please post your submissions here on or before 11:59 PM Central Time Monday, November 19.
Good luck!
Dan