Morning Menagerie#1

Release: Green Animal

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.

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

Snowyteller

if you want to try for the Sunday Display.

That should be all the particulars, today's critter, as you can see, is a Green Animal.

Here's this teller's work, which can be used as a guide or you can skip it now, and avoid colouring your own interpretation of the critter.

Encounter: A Gobulet

A small mountain critter that fits neatly enough into the hand, a dull emerald in colour and with a smooth body that feels much like horn, apart from their floppy ears. They have a hollow in their head, overfilling this with liquids will drench their ears, making them quite despondent.

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