Come one, come all, it's time for the morning menagerie display! Only one promptling will survive, who will it be?
Yellow Oddity
It's 100 words over the limit for a Sighting, but the menagerie gets so few submissions and it's a nice tale of a mischievous creature from
so the rules will be bent a little, it does no good to be too rigid in these matters. Happily the Yellow Oddity bounced over two substacks.Red Mineral
After two substacks this red mineral was forged into a garden hoe that was never used for its intended purpose, instead it was used against a zombie hoard.
Blue Animal
Lumbering through two substacks this blue animal exploded from trapped wind after it swallowed a lit candle.
White Vegetable
Only two substacks and this white vegetable was pruned and pressed, it made for a surprisingly nice bookmark.
Green Animal
One substack and this green animal was chopped into chops, but the raw chops were fed to alley gators just outside a zoo.
Black Animal
Stuffed with crows and pickled by northern dwellers, this black animal only cross one substack.
A big thank you to all who took part!
THANK YOU
, , !This time's survivor is…
The yellow oddity!
See you next time!
What is Morning Menagerie?
Each morning, this teller will release a little critter, of varying colours, and either animal, vegetable, mineral or strange in composition out into the wilds of substack.
A little promptling, if you will. The prompt is the image above itself, it can be a little story, an ode or merely the kind of description you might find in a bestiary. There's a few different categories for this.
Sighting
Is either something like a haiku, a limerick or a wee story between 50-100 words
Encounter
A challenging battle (for the writer) of 800-1500 words.
Recapture
For this, words are optional, simply recreate the prompted critter in whatever medium you desire, crude doodles are acceptable. Even AI generated pictures are acceptable, but do state they are such, some critters should prove quite tricky to wrangle a program into recreating.
The Menagerie Display
Each Sunday, instead of a release, this teller will gather up one of each day’s release in a post for display. Consequently, UNTIL SUNDAY, you can do a piece for any of the released promptlings, not just that day’s. Note that this is merely for the Display. The prompt police aren't real and can't hurt you, so nobody can stop you from excavating a month old prompt from anywhere, shine on you crazy star!
On Restacking
This is merely a suggestion, but to make this a little more like a critter wandering the wilds, after the first post that restacks this post, try to restack others, but be sure to say its menagerie morning, and mention
if you want to try for the Sunday Display.Thanks for reading, this snowflake will melt soon! Subscribe for free to receive notifications of new posts and the ability to vote on Quest polls, subscribe paid to vote on an extra story and get to vote on events for the daily Quest!
Oh wow, I didn't even notice that one had run a bit long. I probably should've carried on and tried for my first 'Encounter'! Haha! Another great week there, though. Well done everyone. It's always enjoyable to read about the fates of these Promptlings. "This blue animal exploded from trapped wind after it swallowed a lit candle" was a particularly fun one in this set... 😎
A good looking group this week. I'm excited for what October has in store.