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I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please 
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The tall grass tickled my arms but I didn’t stir. Poised in my crouching position, I prepared to leap if the hunter came my way. The loud thumping of my heart against my ribcage threatened to give me away. Adrenaline coarsed through my body, I wanted to run but if I ran too early I would be no more.
Suddenly, I heard a twig snapping. It was just behind me. Then another twig snapped. Not leaving my life to chance, I bolted across the field. A flock of crows, surprised by my sudden appearance, exploded into a hundred directions. The sweat trickled down my face and the wiry hairs of my beard soaked it up. As I glanced behind me, I noticed that the crows weren’t settling down, they were determined to snatch me too.
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There is so much going on in the picture’s frame and yet you captured it all in such a formidable and tension filled couple of paragraphs… much like reading a screenplay… 🌟
I was going for that tension! Thanks for the comment, Joseph. 🙂
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A pix that evoked a chase and fear. I took the same path. Here is mine.
http://musingsfromtheturnippatch.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/picture-it-write-81013/ Can’t wait to read the rest.
Amazing. Sorry it took me so long to reply, its been a long week. I loved how the birds weren’t for her but for him. Pow! Hit him with that rock! Thanks for contributing this week. 🙂
I like your interpretation, Ermisenda! I wonder, are they eagles, hawks or falcons? Anyway, mine’s really short 🙂
http://prisailurophileblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/picture-it-write-a-short-story-xvi/
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Short and sweet. A powerful sentence. I wasn’t sure if they were eagles, hawks, or falcons either and the differences were so subtle I knew it would take me hours to figure it out. Thanks for contributing this week! 🙂
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Man! Nature turns against you hard! Here’s mine! http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/picture-it-and-write-imprinted/
Enjoy
Joe
So sweet. I love how you totally turned this photograph around (which appears quite dark) and presented such a fluffy piece. Makes me feel good! Thanks for contributing this week, Joe. 🙂
..a scary feeling…!
Here is my contribution http://simplygemini.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/picture-it-and-write-the-witches-wind/
Gem x
Ooo, I really loved this idea. So creative! The idea that he was being chased to an admirer… so brilliant. It’d be interesting to see this in a longer novel and whether or not he can ever escape her grasp. Thanks for contributing this week, Gem. 🙂
Thanks, I am glad you loved it. Perhaps I will make a longer version. I keep saying that with all my short stories lol! One day maybe when I have time! 🙂
You won’t have to worry about writer’s block. 😉 It’d be fun to try and combine a few together.
Yes it would be fun, perhaps the main character being a ”story teller ” A conversation I had with Joe gave me that idea. 🙂
I look forward to next weeks P & W Xx
The Birds…. I couldn’t come up with a better title. Lol
http://gotmeghan.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/picture-it-write-the-birds/
For me I just couldn’t stop thinking about bullying/abuse. What a great metaphor. I loved the opening line. It was captivating and brutal. Thanks for contributing this week, Meghan! 🙂
A mashup from me this week: http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/saturday-centus-173-meets-picture-it-write-11-august-2013-not-so-sweet-home/
As Anne mentioned, I loved the “You sure?”. It’s kinda scary that one day Earth may not be our first choice. I hope we get to keep our beautiful planet as it is! Thanks for contributing this week. 🙂
What a wicked man to poison him! He really is no better. I guess that reminds us never to eat out with strangers. Especially strangers we had robbed. Thanks for contributing this week, Terry.
http://dothedead.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-field/ My character Jack wakes up in an unknown time and place and finds himself followed by sinister birds.
Uh-oh, I wonder what is going to happen next. A gripping story but yes, there does seem to be a lot of backstory. 🙂 By the way, I love the name Ursula Andromeda. It’s so beautiful.
Those crows do seem menacing for sure.
Yep! Although in Joe’s story, they just want food from Mummy. 😀
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Ooooh hooked right into your story loved the description of the crows…
here’s mine
I loved that you didn’t use it directly. It was a different piece and I felt like you embodied what the image represented, fear. I also got the whole psychoanalysis feel and knowing Freud, he would have had plenty of sinister things to say about crows being linked to fear and trauma. Probably a little bit of sex too, but he couldn’t ever separate sex and the psyche. 😛 Thanks for contributing this week, Neens! 🙂
Another great picture this week,
While reading it, I felt this detached sense of emotion. It seemed so direct and raw. I was kind of surprised that she didn’t seem to fussed about the ‘mate’ dying. By the end, it made even more sense and I applaud you. A great twist! Thanks for contributing this week, Glynis. 🙂
Hard to feel the full range of loss when your life is on the line.
Another lovely picture, my contribution this week.
My entry below:
http://livinglifegreenspeck.blogspot.in/2013/08/survival.html
A great short piece! One must face the demons rather than run. But I like how you concluded with ‘poor hope’ being the character’s only companion. Poetic and also…depressing. With hope, you don’t give up and you’re more vulnerable to pain. Great piece! Thanks for contributing to Picture it & write, Amrit. 🙂
Hunted like in Hunger Games maybe? I like it. Or like some sick freak who turns people lose to hunt them. You know it’s got to be easy to slip into the Alfred Hitchcock theme, so I really like that the birds were in the field and your runner startled them!
For some reason this spoke Poe to me and I’ve never really used him as an inspiration before, so here’s Nevermore.
Not sure who the hunter is. I left that ambiguous on purpose…although I have a feeling it’s probably some kind of game that the main character never agreed to.
Beautiful finale. I loved the beginning part and couldn’t help but chuckle when this part came – “You see, Old Man Billups eats children. Or perhaps he simply cuts them up and feeds them to the Unspeakable Evils he keeps locked away in his storm cellar.” It just seemed so conversational and causal. It was great. 😀 You’re writing always captivates! Thanks for contributing this week, Annie. 🙂
Love how the photo this week worked with a long short story that I am writing. Hope you enjoy http://kimizzyscorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/picture-it-write-domed-judgment-excerpt_14.html
Yet another comment I can’t post on Blogger…
Interesting setting, Kim. I imagine an electronic force field would drive more than just the birds crazy!
Note to everyone (sorry about the public example, Kim): This story was completely illegible to me – a brown page with no writing on it. I had to hi-light the text to be able to see it at all and it was still hard to read. I suggest a black font on a white page, please.
Yeah, I noticed that today as well. I will take care of that. I don’t know how that happened, sorry. I understand about the comments I have a very hard time getting comments to post here on this wordpress blog. I finally set up an account to be able join.
Yeah, I have an Open ID account too and that doesn’t work either. It might be privacy settings… Trying to make sure we don’t get spammed.
I wonder what they need so much protection from. I like how the birds were disturbed by the force field, a nice image. I do have to note that even though I can read the text on the page, it’s hard. I think white text would be best for clarity and legibility. 🙂 Thanks for contributing this week!
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Some great pieces for this prompt, well, late as usual. Here’s mine.
http://poeticalpoet.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/picture-it-and-write-memory/