CCC#60
It was the perfect hiding place.
After all, that part of the park was the quietest and no one has ever thought to explore the drainage. The imposing gate also discouraged curiosity, together with the slime and rubbish pooling at the entrance as dirty guardians. And because the water rushed intermittently, any explorer would not be keen to get caught in the flush.
But when night fell, nocturnal creatures of all sorts would creep in through the drainage gate. And that would be a huge mistake, for an ancient beast lay in wait.
By the wee hours, the ancient creature would have breakfasted – the chewing was the most horrible sound, followed by the belch. Such was the hunger of the creature that it would drool constantly.
Guard the drains well, for none that ventured in would venture out.
(139 words)
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN
Here’s how it works:
Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE
Here are some suggestions:
- An answering photo
- A cartoon
- A joke
- A caption
- An anecdote
- A short story (flash fiction)
- A poem
- A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
- An essay
- A song—the lyrics or the performance
You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:
- Your creative offering is indeed yours
- Your writing is kept to 150 words or less
If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)
Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.
Prompt: Crimson’s Creative Challenge #60
From the Window Seat 
Wow, that sounds too real. Folk myths of crocodiles brought back from travel and, grown too big, too hungry, dropped into the drains to gobble up the unwary.
Nice one 🙂
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Yup! Be careful what we throw into the drains! There was once someone found a snake in a drain in our neighbourhood park and called the police. I bet the police were thinking “We catch criminals, not snakes”…LOL. Thankfully, no one was bitten. But just imagine! *shudders*
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My brother, who’s a tormenting sod, likes to tell me they come up through sewers into the toilets. Yes, I know there are reports, but in Great Yarmouth? I think not.
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Haha, I used to have that same fear too, that something would come and bite me in the ass…literally! That is after reading some internet story. It was hokum of course but I was young and internet was a moderately serious place 🙂
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I live in a port where rats are by tradition, prolific. And they too are known to squiggle through the sewers.
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The horror!
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Yea. Though they’re more likely to inhabit the drains than the sewers, yet I know from when we’ve had floods, with the river overflowing the quay, that the water backs up those drains and into our domestic system. I know this, cos it flooded out a neighbour… via his bath!
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Oh dear…this is going to bring up a lot of nightmares…and a whole lot of therapy! I just cannot imagine rats flooding out from the baths. It’s really going to take a long while to get rid of that mental image!
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Nah, they can’t get through such a small pipe… but I know it connects to the toilet downpipe cos of odd gurgles and water level changes when there’s been a blockage (beyond my system)
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Oh…ok…but still! *shudders*
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Yep, me too 🙂
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Let us just say I shall not be visiting that “lair”!
Well done, Skye!
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Haha, thanks, Dale! 🙂
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