He Killed Murphy

Author’s Note: These prompts are my attempt at working on writing fiction. I may not always follow the cards exactly, but I am working on writing fiction.

Fight The Giant — Cards against normality prompt: Imagine your story as told by an omniscient narrator. What would Morgan Freeman say?

Tell your story out loud with your best storyteller voice. Try to use a lot of "althoughs and meanwhiles."

What if your narrator is lying, or otherwise unreliable? Consider ways you could misdirect the reader.

List three characters who could narrate the story. How would it change with each of them?

Imagine your story narrated by a famous actress, a famous rapper or a cartoon character.

Highland 2

Although Mary was quite anxious to meet Roland, she took her time to get dressed, and ready herself for their first date. Meanwhile Roland was anxiously waiting for Mary in her yard.

Roland had brought flowers and chocolate. His favorite kind of chocolates. He loved the idea of giving a girl chocolate.

"What never occurred to Roland was that Mary didn't have to share her chocolates with him. Of course she will, but it is an important consideration, I think." Morgan Freeman.

When Mary joins Roland in the yard, she is beautiful and Roland tells her that. Although Mary doesn't think so and continues to second guess what she decided to wear for their outing. Meanwhile Roland is thinking about what he should say next after telling her she is beautiful.

"It is a beautiful day at the ranch and Mary and Roland will surely enjoy themselves here today. They are planning a picnic lunch with all the fixings. They will have Roland's chocolate as dessert." News anchor.

Roland begins their conversation with how much he is looking forward to their afternoon. He asks if they will be going for a ride on the horses or maybe take a dip in the pool.

Although Mary isn't interested in doing either, she quietly shakes her head and states that she was hoping for a quiet afternoon to talk and get to know one another.

In the meanwhile, the wait staff have delivered their picnic lunch. Complete with chicken, steak fries and corn on the cob. The beverage appeared to be a fruit punch.

"Boring is what this story is. Wants to know the brother's biz. He just wants the chocolate." Rapper.

As Roland and Mary are enjoying their picnic, along comes a frog and hops right onto their picnic lunch. Food flies all over the place and Mary screams and Roland hops up and, in his eagerness, to save Mary, he steps on the frog and kills it.

Mary is now crying uncontrollably. Roland just killed her pet frog, Murphy. Although Roland didn't know, how could Mary ever look at Roland again without thinking about how he was responsible for killing Murphy.

She explained to Roland that he would have to leave now. Roland responded with you screamed! Mary said Murphy surprised her, she didn't expect him to be outside, or to hop onto their picnic lunch.

Although Roland tried, he could not control Mary's sobbing, and before long he decided to leave, and as he left, he picked up the chocolates and drove away. Meanwhile Mary's mother came out of the house to find her daughter totally distraught.

When her daughter was able to speak, she told her mother what had happened and to her surprise her mother was carrying Murphy. Her mother had brought him outside with her. Murphy wasn't dead after all and although Roland was now gone, it was just as well.

Meanwhile, Mary thought about calling Roland and telling him he didn't kill Murphy. But as she looked for the chocolates to share with her mother and she saw that they were gone, and knew that Roland had taken them, she changed her mind.

Author’s Note: All works in progress. Writing fiction is not my forte!😉