vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
donkey 🫏

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

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[marycatelli]

"Don't be a donkey, you fool!" shouted Jasper, drawing every gaze. "You still have the wall up about the tower where it fell!"
"The labyrinth is still there," said Mistress Ulrike. "Unlike the tower."
"But there was a snake," said Emalie. "Like the wolf! It could kill if they went in there alone! It took five of us striking at once to keep it off!"
"There were many snakes," said Sonia. "They were wandering about, and we have no way to know whether we flushed them out."
"The wolf died easily enough," said Mistress Ulrike. "The tower was the problem."

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

Autumn Belfontaine usually taught courses related to radio broadcast, whether it was journalism or broadcast standards for everyone in an on-air role. So getting assigned to teach a unit on American political history was leaving her a bit at sea -- a metaphor a lot of her students wouldn't really appreciate, having lived so much of their lives up here on the Moon.

Right now she was trying to figure out how to explain about the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey, to students who would've been little kids at the time of the tumultuous 2012 election, when Flannigan was running for re-election against former New York Governor Ike Liebowitz. Just thinking about it brought back memories of that moment at the Minnesota statehouse, when a demonstration turned into a riot even as she was completing a man-in-the-street interview with a passer-by, a student at another of the Twin Cities' institutions of higher learning.

She'd gotten out and back to U-Minn and the station unscathed, but her close call had been a big reason why her old boss had kept her in the studio on Election Day, monitoring the national news feeds while he went out to get soundbites at the polls, right until Flannigan ordered the elections suspended "until order was restored."

Now I'm the boss in the newsroom here at Shepardsport Pirate Radio, but when it comes to politics, I'm looking down a deep gravity well.

[marycatelli]

Ah, history

[marycatelli]

Honor looked at the fire. It showed a road, where a traveler led a donkey. "Show me the wasteland closest to us."
Susan arched an eyebrow but shifted the scene. Honor drew up her memories and realized it was within a day's walk, an hour's flight.
"Go to the north."