vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
web

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

Comments

[jbellinger]

"I'm quite proud of these. I bred them to spin 5-fold instead of 6-fold symmetry."

"Amazing. Can they do the whole pentacle too?"

"I've tried, but the spiders die first. I think they live out part of the summoning spell. Best they don't try—fewer unexpected interruptions when I'm working.

[marycatelli]

Perhaps they could weave it in a different order.

[marycatelli]

She picked up a new book and idly considered how many ladies in exquisitely tragic exile would spend their hours weaving instead of reading books. Thus producing an exquisitely lovely web instead of wafting time away.
Then, she had been lucky to get someone to teach her how to sew.

[marycatelli]

"But then you just cast spells after it's been found to be broken," said Ava. She waved her hands. "A big spider web and catch them, only afterward. Besides, shouldn't clerks be prevented from writing enchanted papers if they can't be trusted? Enchant their contract to not write such things?"

[marycatelli]

The figures about the table looked uncommonly solemn.
Pompous fools, thought Edwin, with no real heat. Probably not even in so great a web of intrigue as they liked to tell themselves. The backbiting about who would be the next king was simpler than that once they eliminated the prince.