Here’s my contribution to this weeks’s Monday’s Finish the Story, brought to us by Barbara Beacham.
Finish the story starts with “At first, it looked like an ordinary marble, but it was far from it.”
To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a trinket, piled into the old straw basket sitting in a dusty corner of the bookshop. Cheap treats left at child height, making it easy for little hands to scoop out a reward for good behavior..
Mikah had already walked out of the store when a commotion made her glance back . A little girl had upturned the basket, scattering its contents all over the shop floor. She stepped back in to help the girl’s father and the shop owner who were frantically trying to clean up the mess. She stuck her hand under a bookshelf to pull out some of the escapees, and jumped back as a bolt of electricity ran up her arm. Shaking, she uncurled her fingers and stared at the tiny white orb which lay, ice cold, against her skin. It could only be one thing. A world seed.
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The start of a whole new story, A world seed! Lovely beginning! So many questions!
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Thankyou, I’m glad that you liked it 🙂 I enjoyed writing this one and will likely write more on it- I want to more about the world seed too 🙂
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Interesting story👍
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Thankyou! 🙂
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It’s amazing what you can find lying around in these old shops! This could (and should) definitely be the start of a longer story 🙂
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Thanks for the encouragement drali- I’ll throw it into the dusty old basket of story ideas 😛
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I love the concept of a world seed and the unfolding story. Very nice!
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Thankyou! I enjoyed writing this piece, and may well write more later 🙂
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What happens next? I love that you can go somewhere with this. Nicely done! Thank you for writing again for the MFtS challenge. Be well… ^..^
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Thankyou Barbara- I think I’ll build this into an existing idea I have for a nanowrimo story later this year 🙂
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🙂
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What a wonderful story so nicely written! A world seed is intriguing and I have a feeling will be the seed of many wonderful stories ahead!
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Thankyou PJ! It would nice to build on this one, I’d like to see where it goes 🙂
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I’m most curious about the fact that she recognised it for what it was. She must be involved in something quite strange to possess such unusual information. An intriguing story. 🙂
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She’s like a professional bounty hunter/collector who has been sent out to search for this thing so she knew that it was in the general vicinity when she found it 🙂
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Wonderful story! Want more.
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Thankyou for reading and I’m glad that you enjoyed it! 🙂
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She must know something the humans do not. Is she an alien?
A very interesting story!
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Thanks Francesca 🙂 I’m going to build this into a sci-fi/fantasy story that I’ve been working on very slowly.. She is an alien and a professional bounty hunter of sorts 🙂
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Not expected. WEll written 🙂
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Thankyou Sherry, glad you liked it 🙂
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I am intrigued and in wonder of the world seed….Where do we go from here?
Loved reading your work!
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Thankyou so much! I’m going to expand further using an existing storyline I’m working on at the moment 🙂
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“World seed:” no wonder the shop owner was frantic to put things right! I’m looking forward to more installments!
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Thanks Phylor! 🙂
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Great hook for a longer story. I’m sure we all would like to know more about a “world seed.” Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thankyou Suzanna- glad you liked it 🙂
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