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Challenge #00711 - A346: Saved!

Serial killer (real Hannibal Lechter-type) turns himself in to the authorities a sobbing wreck after months of being hounded by a pair of REALLY persistent Jehova’s Witnesses.

Every serial killer makes one big mistake, and for Kevin Leerie, that mistake was answering the door one peaceful morning to the door-to-door evangelists.

“Have you heard the good word of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ?”

“Rack off,” said Kevin, and slammed the door.

He should have pretended he wasn’t home, but no. That day, he had been expecting a courier parcel and therefore raised their interest. Something about him must have said ‘poor lost soul’.

They popped by.

Randomly.

They took advantage of his malfunctioning peephole and may have sabotaged it themselves. There was no proof, of course. Kevin’s landlord was already a lying asshole in near-permanent fifth place on his little murder list.

These two? They were trying to do good. He could not, in all good conscience, eliminate them like he did the very scum of humanity. Therefore, he had to put up with them at least twice a week.

“Are you prepared for the coming apocalypse?”

“Did you know that Christ is planning the End of Days?”

“Do you know what happens to you after you die?”

“Have you secured your mansion in heaven?”

They wouldn’t go away. Not even when he answered the door naked, covered in blood, and carrying a carving knife. Though their smiles were rather fixed and nervous, that day.

“There is still time to save your soul.”

“You can repent at any time.”

“Welcome Jehovah into your heart and be cleansed!”

They were relentless.

They were driving him to distraction.

And worst, they always seemed to chance on him shortly before or shortly after a kill. Hunting became fraught with the risk of them raising an alarm.

The only way out… was through.

Which was why, one peaceful weekend morning, Kevin gave them the keys to his house and car, saying only: “I won’t need these any more,” before he took a leisurely stroll down to the police station to confess.

It was rather relaxing, really. Inside a prison cell, none of them could get to him.

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Challenge #00710 - A345: Vicious Competition

MongoCorp runs across a rival business concern…AzTech.

Despite the near meteoric rise of MongoCorp Consolidated Business Concern, there was a rival in the South Americas. AzTech Incorporated.

They profited by a pyramid franchise scheme that sent prescribed percentages of profits to the central offices in Tacuba, and busily recruited and expanded all around them.

Their flagship products were QuetzlcoatlNet and the Obsidian Drive. The sharpest technology on the planet.

But their sacrificial employee management skills were in direct opposition to MongoCorp&

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Challenge #00709 - A344: The Fright of a Lifetime

‘Hey Arnold!’ meets 'Aaahhh! Real Monsters!’. Go as the Muse moves you.

“It was hideous,” he bawled, “HIDEOUS! I can’t go back there. I just can’t.”

Krumm patted his back.

Oblina soothed, “There, there, darling. It can’t be that bad…”

“You didn’t see it,” Ickis whined. “It had horrible green stuff on its face! And its hair was this awful sunshiny

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Challenge #00708 - A343: Generations Ago...

T’reka is regaled by tales of the Emu War…by smarter-than-expected emus.

[AN: This has to be a descendant of the original T'reka the Inquisitive]

She had found them fascinating on her trip to the famously dangerous Australia of Earth. And they found her fascinating, too.

When she discovered that they had a language… That was the most interesting thing to cause T'reka the Questioner to extend her stay.

Central-Australian Emus were intelligent.

“Ah nah, we’re not

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Challenge #00707 - A342: Honey-Bunny Booboo

A window into the daily life of a mixed family roughly one generation after “The Invasion of the Rabbit Women!”. 

[AN: For those too busy to scroll through their dash or my blog, that’s this post here: the-hunt-begins ]

A century following the invasion and colonisation of Sol, much had changed. Most of those changes were completely lost on Tirena, age six. She had a happy home, and the best parents and siblings.

Tirena had been flipping channels on the holovision

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Challenge #00706 - A341: Tonight on Border Patrol...

Team of Japanese Magical Girls encounter their greatest threat…Customs Agents.

“Do you need an interpreter?”

“My am English very good,” said the Japanese girl with a big grin. “No worries mate!”

Her friends looked decidedly more dubious about her skills.

“All right,” the Customs Agent Veronica sighed, “Do you know why you were called over here?”

“Chucka su-rim-pu on-u baa-bee!”

“…riiiiight.”

A brief argument in Japanese

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Challenge #00705 - A340: Someone Thought of the Children

Various cable news channel’s reactions to Kermit T. Frog running for political office as an Independant, with the re-animated corpse of Fred “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Rogers as his running mate. 

Fred Rogers looked just as he did when he was alive. He had the same ready smile and the same sparkle in his bespectacled eyes. He had the same sweater on that he wore in his last show.

But that wasn’t the disturbing part.

The disturbing

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Challenge #00704 - A339: And Yet it Moves

A child learning that their planet moves, so when they jump up, they can never come down in exactly the same place.

Paulie considered the sidewalk. It had been in front of her house forever. Mom let her draw on it before it rained. This time, the chalk in Paulie’s hand had been purloined from the art box in secret.

She made an X on the pavement. Right by her gate. And stood on it carefully. Concentrated. Jumped!

And came

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...Primitive Technology?

“The first great technological innovation in this ancient and primitive society,” the documentary host said with a small chuckle, “was the idea of attaching a very big blunt rock to the end of a very long stick to smash their enemies and prey at a relatively-safe distance, rather than attempting to engage them at closer range and bash them with a somewhat-smaller pointy rock held in the hand…”

A pause for effect as the camera passed across the

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Challenge #00702 - A337: I'm What?

This post: http://underthenerdhood.tumblr.com/post/92243212285/a-little-girl-who-grows-up-thinking-all-doors-are

Melia didn’t know she was haunted until she entered the Sanctum at the Academy of Magical Learning. Until that day, all doors had opened for her, before she could get to them. And, in the case of doors already open, they did not swing shut until she was through.

It was an unexplained magical gift that had lead to her scholarship at the academy in the first place.

And now, inside

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Challenge #00701 - A336: Ignorable Precautions

(no other great ape can swim, or is remotely happy about going in water [except two cases of domesticated apes in 2013, the only known examples] and most monkeys are downright afraid of water)

*splash*

‘What the - are they trying to drown themselves now?’

'They float. Of course they float.’

“Where are we?” Bessie looked around. It was an island, she could tell that much. There was a modest little house and a garden, and something of

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Challenge #00700 - A335: One Dead Hour at Unsuitable Food

[AN: Image shows a table of Uncommon But Useful Conversions. The list runs thus:

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 Bananosecond
Two monograms: 1 Diagram
Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
1 kilogram of figs: 1 Fig Newton
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 Hoarsepower
1000 aches: 1 Kilohurtz
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mph: Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking less-filling low-calorie beer: 1 Lite Year
1

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Challenge #00699 - A334: Community Service

(Inspired by one of your older works)

A “What, Ho!” scene.

[AN: For those unfamiliar with the topic, check out my fanfic Misfits]

The cogniscent tree people of Kumonjagotabijokin had a very peculiar life cycle. For a start, they planted the fruit of the Elder Trees and raised the resulting sproutlings as their own.

And, unfortunately for Aerin, crash landings did not come with tourist pamphlets. The world was pre-industrial and definitely pre-spaceflight, so common etiquette decreed the entire world be left

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Challenge #00698 - A333: Rituals of Nerditry

A “Hu’s on first” routine

OR

A “The bowler’s Holding” moment

Two humans, both wearing suits, stood on the otherwise empty stage.

“Heeeeeey, Abbott,” said the smaller one.

“Yes, Costello?” said Abbott.

“I hear you made captain of the local neighbourhood baseball team.”

“That’s correct. I did. I’m rather proud.”

“I’d like to know the names of some of the guys on your team, so

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Challenge #00697 - A332: Extreme Cuisine

Rapid tissue cloning from donated cells + vat-grown flesh as food-products = “My God… I’m delicious!”

They’d called the restaurant Eat My Ass. And the staff handed out FAQ sheets as to why they did it.

Fast-tissue cloning worked best on the muscles of the gluteus maximus. Which, in the kitchen/laboratory, became the best well-marbled meat individually tailored for each customer.

They had a wide variety of dishes that, technically, were veganism in its purest form. No animal had to

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