[Write the Story] Alone on a Deserted Island
Prompt: Alone on a Deserted Island
Words: book review, organism, mermaid, bother, decrease, echo, grimace, inch, march, pump
Story
Greta leaned against the palm tree and tilted her face into the sun for a moment before relaxing into the shade. This was everything the mermaid told her it would be. Gentle breezes, warm sun, the soothing echo of the tide doing its inexorable march of the tide inching its way up the beach. It was amazing.
Next to her was a pile of novels the New York Book Review declared to be Deserted Island books. So when she’d run into the djinn at the Mythical Organism Convention, she bought djinn drinks at the swim up bar and pumped him for information on wishes. The mermaid bartender had suggested the location and here she was.
She put the book down a few pages in. Something nagged at the back of her mind. She wasn’t sure what it was that bothered her about this whole idyllic set up. Then, with a grimace, she shook the sand out of her sarong and headed up the hut built near the waterfall.
The lack of people and news meant a huge decrease in stress but a mighty increase in sand flees and other itchy, crawly bugs. She knew it was too good to be true. Mythical creatures were always finding loopholes. Well given the number of books she now had? She’d find her a loophole of her own.
Word Count: 224
Written: 3/9/2020
2 Comments
[…] This story is from the prompt over on Rhonda Eudaly’s site. […]
It’s not until you get out into nature that you realize EVERYTHING wants to eat you.
Nice little story. I wonder if Greta is a mythical creature herself. Did you picture her as human or as other? If she’s other, that’s a nice twist.