Fighting The Giant

Author’s Note: These prompts are my attempt at working on writing fiction.

Fight The Giant - Cards against normality prompt: Your hero will have to face her adversary at some point. Why not right now?

List the ways the enemy could bring the fight to the hero right now.

If your hero has a plan, how can she be forced to accelerate it? Perhaps she learns new information, or a window of opportunity is closing

Coincidence happens. Brainstorm three ways your hero and antagonist could find themselves in the same location unexpectedly.

Highland 2

Sally walked up to me and said, "Let me get that spider!" I said, wait, let me move first. "Okay, but it isn't behind you, it is on you!" I started screaming and I scared Sally and the spider. Both jumped and were moving. Just that quick my hero had the spider and said, "I will be right back." She placed it outside.

That happened as girls in grade school. Now wouldn't that be a nice simple story, but oh no, the spider I am talking about was huge. It appeared in the news as what appeared to be mechanical. And I thought an operator might be inside. My hero didn't stand a chance with this spider. Or so I thought.

Sally confided in me that she was going to bring an eight-legged spider down. She said, she could use some help, and she knew I was just the person to help her. What I didn't know is that she planned to use me as bait.

When we got to the place the spider was hanging out and causing all the turmoil, I wasn't exactly sure of my part in the plan. I could see the spider from a distance as it scurried about. The spider looked like the Goliath Bird eater or the Theraphosa blondi. It was huge.

And all of a sudden, it was getting closer and closer to me. I screamed for Sally, but she was nowhere in sight. I looked around to find a safe place, and nothing was close. I started to run and just as I was about to reach safety, there was a loud noise.

I turned in time to see Sally with a large crushing armored vehicle, on top of the spider, who was shooting something out of his eight legs. Out of nowhere popped a white flag. The spider was waving a flag of truce. Sally would honor that, or would she?

Sally stopped the assault and let the spider move on its own. The spider did that, then laid down and out of the hairy chin came a small woman. She was older and probably about four and one half feet tall. The spider had several broken appendages.

When looking closer at Sally and the large crushing machine, I realized it was just a big farm truck, Sally had changed into a large vehicle of destruction to take that spider down.

It turned out the woman was going to carnivals and the circus in various cities to educate the children on different forms of spiders. She would do some running and that is what she was doing when we arrived. She wasn't chasing me and she wasn't hurting anyone.

The news failed to mention that no one had been hurt by this big spider. Sally only knew that she had to save the community that the spider would be destroying. The families that were being hurt. And then the spider came to our town. And Sally knew she could do something about it. She was taking it down.

And take it down she did!