Today's promptling release is the above Blue Brute!
Make sure to skip this teller’s interpretation below if you don't want yours to be influenced!
Sighting: Blue Brute
Widebelly considered his own ears. They were almost within reach of his mouth. Once again he considered eating them. He liked eating ears. The prey always screams when he eats the ears, so it made him hesitant to eat his own ears. He had taken to knocking the prey unconscious, the screams were too much when trying to enjoy a nice chewy ear.
That day, he finally went through with it, he spent the rest of the day howling and sobbing and resolved to never eat live prey again, too cruel.
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!
THE UBER-RABBIT
It's a little known fact, almost lost to history, that in 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to flee from a large group of rabbits who were advancing towards him in a menacing fashion, during a rabbit hunt.
What is even less well known, was that this was, in fact, the same day his enemies were planning to dispose of him, using a genetically modified, and highly aggressive, 'Uber-Rabbit' which was concealed in a prime spot where the hunt was due to take place, waiting to pounce.
What they hadn't accounted for, though, was that the Emperor would be wearing orange.
Which unfortunately, due to his diminutive stature, meant the other rabbits in the vicinity immediately mistook him for a carrot and began their legendary pursuit, which led to him abandoning the hunt and retreating to his carriage.
The Uber-Rabbit was never found.
But it's believed to still be living in the Paris area, where some historians have suggested it may have disguised itself as a showgirl at the Moulin Rouge... 😎