Morning Menagerie Display#17

Release: Saturday Display!

An unusual display for this Saturday, in two ways. Had the one hundredth Morning Menagerie and an unexpected gift of the skies. Let's get to it!

GREEN

Two substacks in and this green promptling grew a heart that grew too much and burst.

YELLOW

Being used as a pot isn't healthy when it's a cooking pot, after one substack that's what happened.

BLACK

One day, a little promptling crossed paths with a licorice witch, it was black in that substack for a different reason then.

BROWN

Across one substack, but down swooped a ufo and the brown promptling was never seen again.

SNOW

For being made of snow, it made good progress across three substacks, and

Chris J. Franklin

had a Haiku of the cheeky sneaky habits of a little snowman.

MEMORY

They didn't want to keep moving the table, so they settled down in one substack.

A big THANKS to

The Black Knight

,

Jennifer James

and

Chris J. Franklin

Thanks too to everyone else!

The survivor this time is…

The Snow promptling!

Wait, where is it?

Oh.

What is Morning Menagerie?

Each morning, this teller will release a little critter, of varying colours 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 Saturday, instead of a release, this teller will gather up one of each day’s release in a post for display. Consequently, UNTIL SATURDAY, 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

Be sure to say its menagerie morning, and mention

Snowyteller

if you want to try for the Sunday Display. Do be sure to restack others if you see them helping the promptling on its way.

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