Dale offers the prompt “autumn landscapes” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
All of these were taken some years ago when we lived in Illinois.
I used to enjoy walking though the many forest preserves especially in the autumn.
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Although Nimrodwannabe’s love for the magicians was nonexistent, he did favor Daniel who arrived in Babilopolis after Nimrodwannabe subjected Jerusalem to his will. Unlike your run-of-the-mill magician Daniel was able to interpret Nimrodwannabe’s dreams so well that Nimrodwannabe placed him over all of the unloved magicians and gave him the Ring of the Dream Whisperer.
Daniel was also made a eunuch.
I know, I know that might sound shocking – and maybe I got the story wrong – but think how shocking it would have been to Daniel considering that the operation (however it was done) was nonetheless done in the 6th century BC! On the bright side, it would mean that Daniel didn’t have to worry about the teasing, the battings of eyelashes and all of the other forms of witchcraft coming from the less loyal cuties of the royal household allowing him to focus his attention on some of the more jealous magicians who liked Daniel even less than Nimrodwannabe liked them.
But in spite of everything and although Daniel himself longed for Jerusalem, he was quite happy in Babilopolis as the royal dream whisperer and ruler of the those pesky magicians.
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Denise offers the prompt word “ring” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “pick a shape” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I picked “round” as my shape.
The last one is definitely round. With the first two you might have to use your imagination.
When Daniel got tired of writing King Nimrodwannabe’s dreams and his interpretations of them he’d let his visions fly to YouTube looking for a video that would give him enough refreshment to get back to work. Rapidly scrolling past an incredible amount of click bate garbage he found a video on how to make a paper airplane that would return to sender like a boomerang, but where was he going to get paper in Babilopolis in the 6th century BC?
He eyed the parchments upon which he was recording the dreams Nimrodwannabe lost in the land of forgetfulness wondering how well it might fold. He was sorely tempted.
However, if he didn’t continue writing, 21st century scholars with their interminable doubts that he or even Nimrodwannabe ever existed would have nothing material in their hands to doubt. He went back to work.
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Denise offers the prompt word “fold” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Here are a few photos that might fit the prompt.
Think of them as paintings made by the waves with stuff left on the sandy shore.
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In his campaigns that would give him the whole known world King Nimrodwannabe left once independent and prosperous communities burdened with annual tributes they now owed him. A few of these communities, the expendable ones which weren’t producing much in the first place, were tortured to terrorize their more productive neighboring villages into quick submission.
To maintain dominion over those villages which survived to surrender he brought their best and brightest back to his glorious Babilopolis where they would be educated so they could later serve as his overseers insuring his ongoing will was obeyed back home.
Though Nimrodwannabe was still young he was much too much in a hurry to waste valuable time getting cross with those who challenged him either at Babilopolis or abroad preferring speedy executions to lengthy quarrels. With the only real time he had any control over, since corpses are notoriously impotent, he took everything he could get his hands on even what was not given to him.
The demons reveling with him knew – once those tiny decades of Nimrodwannabe’s life were done – they would get it all not that it would do them much good either.
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Denise offers the prompt word “cross” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “Halloween” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We don’t celebrate Halloween anymore. Long ago, we used to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating with our young children. But that was long ago.
Although I don’t have any Halloween images, I do have some fall photos to share.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 