Today on Drabble Wednesday the magic wands are waving and
the spells are being cast. So come in, check out the wonders, and don’t forget
to duck occasionally to avoid being turned into a toad...
Time Slips Away
The gnarled hand of a old woman knocked thrice on the aged wood
of the door. The same hand then brushed a stray hair from her face as she
waited. No answer.
She again knocked, three further thumps with no more answer
than before. She sighed, and lifted the latch.
The hinges creaked and the oaken entry swung open, rasping
its displeasure. As the elderly mage walked through the gateway, arcane mist
puffed from the inky recesses of the realm beyond, swirling around her feet. An
old man, another mage, looked up from his work.
“It’s lunchtime you old fool!”
Talking with Fish
Stupid nosy neighbour!
A pox on him and his dumb cell phone!
A person can’t leave their kitchen curtains open these days!
He showed me the video yesterday. Clear as day, I’m there chatting with Percy,
my sentient fish familiar, while using my magic pendant. I tried to laugh it off, but conjuring a
shower of gold from thin air is hard to explain.
The weasel threatened to sell the video to the tabloids if I
don’t cut him in on the wealth. I may
have to pay him off, unless I can get him to drink this poisoned tonic.
Jack and the Jellybean
Once Upon a Time… a young man named Jack found a magic
jellybean. A splendid thing, pink and glowing, that sang of wonders beyond the
Great Realm. Of adventures, giants, and gold riches, waiting for a daring soul
to come and claim them.
“Throw me into the Lake of Mystics,” it said, “to find the
doorway to your dreams.”
So Jack travelled onward and tossed the jellybean into the
lake, transforming its surface into a forbidding, black, screaming maw, a gate
to another world.
He trembled in fear, but if you think that stopped him…
Then you don’t know Jack.
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