Thank you @mariannewest for another fabulous #freewrite challenge, today's prompt is gardening
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This is a stand alone freewrite, although it does follow on from "Jelly". To start at the beginning click here.
Mike squinted in the bright "sun"light. He blinked. The creatures weren't squirrels, or rabbits, he realised. They were little men, garden gnomes in fact.
He blinked again, and shook his head. They were moving too. They seemed to be either elaborate robotic thingies or actual living beings.
And they were gardening.
One of them seemed to be mowing the carpet on the edge of the canal. Another was digging. A third lent on a broom and waved at Mike as he drifted past. Mike raised his uninjured hand in greeting.
"Hello!" the gnome called. "You off to visit HIM are you?"
"What?!" Mike called back.
"HIM!" the gnome said.
Mike didn't know what to say other than, "What?" again.
The gnome shrugged and started sweeping.
"Who is HIM?" Mike shouted as he continued past.
"Oh..." shouted the gnome. "You know!" Mike felt like crying. With frustration, he thought...
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The Jelly wobbles on...
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That is so much fun! I can almost feel myself floating through that dream. I might discover "Him" tonight. ;-)
I know I'm late but here is your friendly reminder about today's prompt: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-133-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-the-attic
Thanks Wordmouth! :)
Oh my, who the heck is him! I have to pay attention and make sure I don't miss the next series! I feel that I'm so far behind on everything. Vacations are good but you have so much reading to catch up on LOL. This is undervalued so I am sharing.
Thanks for sharing, and thank you for reading! Don't worry... no one knows who HIM is yet... Although I suspect that @mariannewest has HIM locked in her draw of secret prompts. Hope you had a lovely vacation! :)
Hahaha....Him!! 🤣
LOL! I think you'll find it's HIM! always more worrying when there are more capital letters, don't you think! :)
You tease! I want to know what is going to happen to Mike!
Is Mike really microdosing LSD, and thinks the gnomes are talking? It would be a great twist
I don't think this is a hallucination. The Jellys are very REAL! ;)
yes! And I also want to know why Mike raised an "uninjured" hand. Was his other hand injured, and how? Or was "uninjured" just a descriptor of his hand not necessarily implying the other is injured?
You need to go back a few "episodes". Check out Ouch! to find out what gets injured and there is a link at the end of that episode to the next one that will tell you what did it...
Thank you by the way!
Me too! Blame @mariannewest. She is the secret keeper.
I love seeing all the little gnomes tromping around in the garden! They're welcome over my place anytime!!
I'll let them know. They are pretty busy at the Jelly's house at the moment... and it's hard to find a way out of that place!