Challenge 004: Drabble+: Blame

[strangetomato]

Here's my entry for this week's challenge from the simstorytellers community. It was another drabble+ this time, and the prompt word was blame. This might end up as the opening to the next update, or it might remain separate. I haven't decided yet. I had another opener in mind, but this might work too. Either way, it gives a little more of Johnny's experience with the abduction than I had intended to get into right away. All will be revealed eventually, but it won't be out in the open for a while. What that mostly means is that Johnny may tell someone about it, but as readers, you won't be privy to all of the details. 




Challenge 004: Drabble+: Blame

Prompt: Blame
Word Count: 150-200
Pic count: 1-2
Expiration: 4/29/08





He had been reading a lot of Oscar Wilde lately. Not just the novel, but the plays too. Johnny didn't do things halfway.

One quote had really stuck in his mind. It was one of those things that gets quoted again and again, and not always in context.




"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Now he was applying it out of context too, but he thought that his context might be better than the original. They were in the gutter. Very much so. They were looking at the possibility of ruin. Could he blame his parents for what they wanted for him? Could he blame the Curious family for looking to the stars for answers?

Could he accept the offer that had been presented to him?

Johnny picked himself up off the ground. The sun had just risen.

He wanted a lot of things from life. He had ambitions, and he strived to achieve them. The chance to do something significant appealed to him. Something heroic and noble. Something right.

But that wasn't the only thing he wanted. It wasn't even what he wanted most of all.




Johnny Smith walked home.








 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've always like that quote. Oscar Wilde has a lot of great quotes, since he was such a great wit. I also enjoy:

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

[realandgritty.livejournal.com]

I've never read any Oscar Wilde, which, apparently is a very unfortunate thing.

Any recommendations?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I would go for The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel. It's a good one.

[realandgritty.livejournal.com]

Alright. I'll have to stop at the library this weekend.