photo by Kong Jun via Unsplash
The Pink Swan Float
The little girl hangs up her pink swan float which her father spent half an hour blowing up and walks out to the water where her whole family is.
It is a sunny day out at the beach and her family is just one of the many families to enjoy the summer vacation along the coast.
No one could have imagined the exceptionally low tide is just a precursor to a 35-metre high tsunami; the pink swan float is the only survivor.
I would have loved to give it a happy ending but I just couldn’t resist killing everyone. Maybe it goes to show just how much I need my alone time after work. Hah!
In any case, after writing the story, I went to check the highest tsunami on record. Turns out the highest tsunami record is 30-metre (about 100 feet?) high. I’m glad I stick to 35-metre high because I originally wanted to go 50-metre high.
I always have trouble estimating distances and time. *shrugs*
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:
- Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
- Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
- Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
- Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
- Have fun.
Prompt: Three Line Tales, Week 178
From the Window Seat 
Despite the girl with the dad who blew up her pink plastic swan is about to be swept into oblivion by a tsunami, I did enjoy the tale.
BTW: I recently researched tsunami for my WiP, and decided to top the known heights … cos, it’s a fantasy
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Hahaha, go big! It’s nice to fantasise without the pressure of it coming true 😀
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Indeed. WiP is set way back at end of Ice Age.
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Ooh, that sounds interesting. If you post it, I can’t wait to read it!
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Actually, it’s been posted. It ran as weekly episodes over three years, when I first started to blog … in fact, that was the reason I started the blog. But not on crimsonprose; on a sister-site, dedicated to the story. But now I’m committed to publishing on Kindle, and so I’m going through all the processes of revisions, rewrites, beta readers, edits, and I do wonder if I’ll ever get there. Written as five books, it totals 650,000 words. And that’s a lot of words to edit!
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Ooh, a five-book installment! That’s definitely a project that would take some time. I can’t wait to read the end product 😀
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I hope you will. You can guarantee, I shall have it advertised on my blog. If you want to get a feel of it, I’ve been posting monthly progress reports, first Sunday of the month. See June’s update: https://crimsonprose.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/the-spinners-game-asaric-tales-e-book-update-19/
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I’ll be sure to check it out!
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