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This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:

A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected.

I felt the need to pay homage to my favorite author again in this week’s Fiction Friday story. I have been wanting to write a story about this very subject for some time and I don’t know, it just seemed to fit.

And this is what I threw together.

This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:

Pick two established characters, either from your own work or others’. Now write the scene/story of their meeting.

I had loads of fun with this prompt, writing it during two lunch breaks and finishing it up tonight. This is by far my longest Fiction Friday story to date. The character William Storey is one of my own creation, from The Tale of William Storey found in Seven Days of Terror – sorry, you’ll have to buy the book if you want to read it. I decided it would be fun to have him meet my favorite Stephen King character, Roland of Gilead of the Dark Tower series.

This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:

Use a McGuffin in your story.

McGuffin: An object or person in a movie that has no use other than to drive the narrative forward. (originally coined by Alfred Hitchcock)

examples: The Maltese Falcon in the movie of the same name; the suitcase in Pulp Fiction

This is a new one for me; I’ve never written anything like this before. And I must admit, writing a McGuffin into the story is harder than it seems. I didn’t know exactly what to do with it, but I gave it a whirl anyway.

This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:
In her right hand a woman holds a loaded gun, in her left, a coin that just came up ‘tails’…NOW WRITE…

This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:
Write about a man with an impossibly bad streak of luck on his birthdays, who, as his 40th birthday approaches, is scared of what might happen.

This week’s Fiction Friday prompt:
Include a telepathic parrot in your story.

I had loads of fun with this prompt. All of this story is true, drawing from a day spent on our vacation last week at the beach, except for the event at the very end. I enjoyed writing it; I hope you enjoy reading it.