Challenge 002: Drabble+: Death

[strangetomato]

Here's my response to the current challenge over at simstorytellers . I thought I would post this now, since it's based on the Strangetown, Here We Come, and I won't be able to post the next chapter until Sunday at the earliest. I'm heading out of town tomorrow evening for a long weekend. This drabble+ (slightly longer than a regular drabble, which is exactly 100 words) is related to the next couple of chapters in the story, and is thus a slight spoiler, but I like to think of it as more of an appetizer. I hope the next installment will follow by early next week.

This week's challenge was to create a 150-200 word drabble+, using a maximum of two in-game pics, with "death" as the prompt.





CHALLENGE 002:  Drabble+: Death

Prompt: death
Pic max: 2
Word count: 150-200
Expires: 4/16/08

Nervous Subject looked around the cemetery.

He was surrounded by death. This was his legacy. This is what his mother had left him with: a collection of dead people, each of them hand-picked to suit her various whims.

It was also his father's work. He performed his task thoroughly and carefully, leaving nobody behind. Death touched everyone.

Nervous didn't have to look far for examples of the impact that his parents had made on this little desert town. There was Ophelia, his cousin, who had lost her entire family to death at an early age. There was Ripp Grunt, whose parents had also been brutally murdered, though he didn't know that yet. There was Johnny Smith, who had, so far, been lucky, but his troubles would come. Death didn't spare anyone. Nervous knew that his father had an appointment with Johnny's family, and sooner than any of them expected.

There was Pascal.




Nervous hoped that somehow, despite logic, Death might decide to grant Pascal some special privilege to walk untouched and happy throughout his long life.

If Nervous asked, he could make it so, but asking favours of Death always came with a price. 





 

Comments

[ricamarcella.livejournal.com]

So if it is PT who the Grim's going to visit soon, how will that impact the pressure on Johnny to fulfill his father's expectations? Will he then feel less compelled to marry Jayne Doe, or will he feel a stronger need to do so in order to honor his father's memory?

[ricamarcella.livejournal.com]

What I mean is, he might (a) either no longer feel the pressure to marry another half-alien, his father being dead or (b) feel the need to act out what PT anted so much, in memory of him.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That is a very insightful question. You're really thinking ahead. If Johnny's father is going to die, it will definitely impact the pressure that Johnny feels about his decision, but I won't say anything about which way it will push him. It's not the only factor that has the potential to impact his decision, as we will soon see. Things are going to start to change soon.

[ricamarcella.livejournal.com]

Oh? What do you mean by those last two sentences? Are Ripp and Phi going to hit it on?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Well, that's one possibility, but there are others too. We'll just leave it at that for now. *wink*