I’ve decided to try the 50 Word Thursday Challenge #31, offered this week at Tales from the mind of Kristian.
You are to write a picture to go with the following image. Your story must be between 50 and 250 words, in 50 word increments. (so 50, 100, 150, 200 or 250 words). Mine is exactly 200. And you must use the following line in your story:
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― The Graveyard Book
THE PROJECT
“Can’t you just see it?”
“Nope. Nope. Never.”
“Hey, where’s your fighting spirit? This site would be perfect.”
“Do you have any idea how much opposition we’d face?”
“It may not be as bad as you think. Listen, Ashton, if you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
“And moving all these graves… We can’t just pave over them. The descendants will howl.”
“I don’t know about that. People are tired of this old mess — they’d be delighted to see something attractive. We’ll set the stones along one edge and this can be the new Fifth Street Park.”
“Well, that’s one option… And the church would be easy enough to knock down. Someone’ll be delighted to salvage the beams and windows.”
“Now you’re talking. I’m positive that if we offer the City Council a high-rise hotel here, stressing the revenue potential, and throw the promise of a park, they’ll get on board.”
“Okay. I’ll draw up a plan and get an architect’s rendering to present. But you’re the spokesman for this project, Lance. You deal with hostile descendants, reporters, and feisty seniors from the Historic Preservation Society threatening us with their brollies.”
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Well done! Good story. 🙂
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Thank you!
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You’re very welcome!
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Do all Historic Preservation Societies have threatening brollies? I like that idea; like it comes with the territory 🙂
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I guess I’ve crossed the Historic society with Miss Seaton….but she’s pretty historic, too. 😉
Thanks for your comment.
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That last line threw a whole different feeling into the story. Brilliant, Christine 🙂
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Thank you.Now you know why Ashton seemed so unwilling. 🙂
So good to have internet service again after a day and a half without! Recent lightning storms zapped our modem, it seems. Now I can finally respond to your welcome comments.
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I just learned yesterday that the Philadelphia airport closed down for a time because of severe wind, rain, and lightening. Scary.
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We’ve had some wild storms here, too — nothing like what the old-timers have written about, but we’re a softer bunch now. 😉
Our power was off a couple of hours this morning and has been blinking off and on all day, which throws out our internet connection each time. Sigh…
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You could add to this and make it a novel. I can see the ghosts of those buried coming back to haunt the developer.
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Thanks for your comment. There are many glitches that come up when people undertake to build something, issues that could make for a good story, but I’m not into the ghostly ones.
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