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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Oct 9, 2022 15:44:00 GMT -6
This Week's Prompt: Jack, Queen, King
Length: Entries must be 100 words, no more, no less. Where: Post your entry below. Deadline: October 15th by midnight CST. Participant's Badges: HERE Weekly Challenge Rules:- No critiquing. Please refrain from giving feedback, as these challenges are to inspire creativity.
- Positive Enthusiasm is welcome! But save it for when Voting has started.
- CAN NOT vote for your own entry, and doing so will disqualify your submission.
- HAVE FUN!
Did you post an entry? Don't forget your Easy 10 Points!
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Post by jlthoreau on Oct 12, 2022 18:48:03 GMT -6
The Suffering King
Blood drenched the land beneath the King’s feet, his mind sensing one fleeting moment of sentiment. But she poisoned the land that sustained them. And for that, his Queen and her Jack had long ago boiled alive in the very river they had spoiled. But now he felt nothing, his soul long ago shattered by her betrayal. The very sight of the river enough to remind him of why he had done it. Soon, her prized creation would feel as much suffering as he had. His eye caste down, his voice emotionless and unyielding, “Kill them all!”
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Post by FoxxGlove on Oct 13, 2022 20:08:45 GMT -6
A Cautionary Tale
The royal realm was in an uproar. The Queen's fresh-from-the-oven bakery items had been stolen. Again!
This time, the Knave could not be the guilty party since, still black-and-blue from his recent thrashing by the King's personal secret service agents related to the Case of the Purloined Tarts some days prior, he continued to languish in the imperial hoosgow.
The felonious miscreant, apprehended via citizen's arrest by the young seafaring Bobby Shafto, proved to be one Jack Horner who, despite protesting his innocence by declaring, "I'm a good boy," was caught red-handed with his thumb stuck in a plum pie.
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Oct 15, 2022 20:26:15 GMT -6
Wheel of Fortune
Three cards sit on a candlelit table. Jack ignores the pounding at his door and flips the first to aptly reveal The Tower, upside down and struck by lightning. No doubt also filled with sobs this night. The second card is The Chariot, and he smiles. Yes, the people flooding the moonlit streets chant his name, though the kingly figure astride the carriage is reminiscent of the one who wants his head.
He flips the final card to find the Hanged Man and Fool stuck together with dried mead. What better cards for someone who has just murdered a Queen.
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Post by pelwrath on Oct 16, 2022 0:43:49 GMT -6
One Eyed Royals
“Odin, look at me,” he told the older man. “Look to your left.” Excellent! I can do all three that way. His birthday is in four days.
Adolf Charlemagne spent three long days painting.
“Adolf,” the Pope said. “Why do two Jacks and a King, have only one eye?”
“Your Holiness, I call those the wild-eyed Royals.”
“Adolf, I wanted a Royal family, same suit, both eyes and where is the Queen?”
“Sorry, the King is Odin, All-Father. The Jack of Spades is Antigonus Monophthalmos. The Jack of Hearts is Xiahou Dun. Just say they were Odin’s bastard children.”
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Oct 16, 2022 9:16:52 GMT -6
Poll added! Good luck!
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Oct 23, 2022 13:18:14 GMT -6
It's a three-way tie! I don't think that's ever happened before LOL Congrats to jlthoreau and FoxxGlove and @me. Have an extra 10 easy points a piece for the win  |
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Post by FoxxGlove on Oct 27, 2022 13:16:51 GMT -6
I see the poll results have changed.
Do we need to revisit the points formerly awarded?
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Post by Caulder Melhaire on Oct 27, 2022 14:57:46 GMT -6
I see the poll results have changed. Do we need to revisit the points formerly awarded? Hey who snuck a vote in there?! Huh. Well, this usually doesn't happen, at least not that I've caught before. No, everyone can keep their points as they were awarded - the polling closes midnight the night before I announce the winners, so whatever results I see when I take the final count and make the announcement on Sunday are what we use for the final tally. (I also often don't check first thing in the morning either, so y'all technically have part of Sunday to vote as well, so long as you drop it in before I get there.) But as of Sunday, 2:18 PM, it was a 3-way tie, and then someone stuck a vote in there after  so we'll stick with the initial results. Sadly, there's no way to lock the poll after the deadline without deleting it. I usually leave them up for posterity's sake, nope, ignore that last, I went looking on the internet and apparently I'm blind as I am foolish. There is a lock button right there under the poll, and I haven't been using it at all. Okay! Problem solved. Next week I'll remember to lock the dang poll after I do the tally. And then we can keep the results up for evidence. |
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so we'll stick with the initial results. 
