“Ho-hee, my trick can't contain them all, but I’m still taking over this menagerie! You’ll not find me either!”
BLUE BRUTE
“Ho-hee,
that's a nice story there, I like a nice story just like Snowyteller, unlike him, I’ll give concrete rewards Ho-hee! Fairy gold at your door! It might turn to dirt by the time you get up and open it, I’m much better at conjuring skulls. Oh, ho-hee, the promptling? It made it across two substacks in spite of my tricks”RED ROGUE
“Ho-hee! This promptling made it across two substacks and then I turned it into an extra hump for a hunchbacked man!”
GREEN GOON
“Ho-hee one substack and I turned it into a pillar of snot! Ho-ho-hee!”
BLACK BEAST
“Ho-hee, licorice is lovely isn't it? So, I led through two substacks this promptling into a licorice tarpit!”
WHITE WRETCH
“Ho-hee, two substacks and I collected enough marshmallows to stuff the promptling to death!”
BROWN BULLY
“Ho-hee, for this one I set up a mirror, it made through two substacks while I was setting up, but I caught it in the mirror, Ho-hee!”
“Well, one promptling got away”
“The blue brute!”
“For
, and I’ll give a third of a dead rat each, that's a treat! Don't blame me if something eats it before you find it!”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!
Does it come with curry sauce? :3
Haha! Another fun week of little Promptlings there. Well done everyone who got involved. And thanks for Mentioning my story! 😎