Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words exactly (no more, no less) based on the prompt:
…twist and turn…
Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words exactly (no more, no less) based on the prompt:
…twist and turn…
I was in the amazon rainforest on holiday from England. Dry leaves crushed under my feet and ripe, tender fruits hung above my head tantalisingly. I had seen no animals(apart from bugs and mini-beasts) and I was starting to get frustrated. Wasn’t the Amazon known for its habitats? Then I saw it. At first, I thought it was a curled up branch but it moved. Its slender body stretched out and its jaw opened and hissed, revealing a bright pink tongue that flickered, tasting the air. Its body twisted and turned, writhing on the floor. Then it looked at me. Two gargantuan eyes burning into my mind. It was a snake.
The poacher was on his way back from an unsuccessful mission. He was really worried as his boss would be angry. The yellow, 50 dotted jaguar. He thought poaching would be easy so he signed up for poaching. But it was much, much tougher than he thought. First of all, you find the sneaky animal. That takes ages. Then you had to catch it. After that, you have to take it back to base, but the whole time it would writhe and twist and turn in your net. Then you’re done and only then. And that’s why he was worried.
I could hear it breathing in the night. Its very presence made me twist and turn in my deep slumber. It was actually earth’s life essence. Little did I know it had been corrupted by an ethereal life-blood better known as a soul. This centre of being was the one of Orag, The Swift. He was the Devils own thief. Everyone thought he had been destroyed by death himself, but he hadn’t. He had only just started terrorising earth and he wouldn’t stop at us. He would conquer every single realm Kingdom by Kingdom until all bowed before him.
It twisted and turned. I did not know what it was, the only thing I knew was that it was big, scary and dangerous. It made all of the leaves on the bush move, the I had a flashback. Where was I? What was that? But most importantly, was I going to make it back alive? I was feeling fear, but the old wise man down the road always used to say believe in yourself, but sadly died. I was thinking about him and that he would always be my friend. I put my foot out and leaped forward; it wasn’t anything I thought it was. It was a lost dog, I saw its tag and returned him to the owner. Then I thought about the old wise man… and how wise he was.
As soon as I looked into those red, deathly, bottomless eyes, I knew it. I was done for. A sleek yet muscular cylindrical body writhed as if fifty tons of pure, white hot adrenaline was surging through the killing machine. Two small fangs glittered dark crimson, proof of its last victim’s painful doom. A dry, terrifying hiss sent a snowstorm down my spine as the snake halted and glowered at me. The evil stare seemed to speak to me, ‘go on then, run, you fool’ but my feet, ignoring the petrified screams coming from my head, stayed rooted. I let the snake slowly crawl towards me, and waited for its inevitable strike…
It had been an hour or two and my Dad and I still hadn’t caught the Red Bellied Trout we’d been waiting for: it was the ultimate catch for a fisherman; but no doubt one of the hardest. This wasn’t because of the time it took to catch, it was because it was the hardest fish to keep on your line.
Suddenly, I had a bite and it tugged with all its might on my rod, but I reeled it in and jerked upward and right before our eyes was a Red Bellied Trout.
This was the best moment of my life!
Lying in bed
Lost and alone
Out to sea in a boat
A young boy did moan
An inky blackness
so deep and intense
A lone field
A thick barbed wire fence
Horrors and thoughts
Contained in one mind
What else will surface?
What else will we find?
Lying in bed
A fire did burn
Out to sea in a boat
A young boy did turn
A dimly lit cabin
A savage knife
A ruthless young captain
The loss of a life
Lying in bed
Lost and alone
Out to sea in a boat
The young boy awoke