vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
magnificent 🦚

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]

The horses were respectable palfreys. Nothing magnificent. Master Diggory helped Princess Katherine to mount, and then the other ladies in order of their rank.
Clara composed her soul in patience. Once mounted, they would wait for the rest of the company. Such were departures for all souls of whatever birth.

[starshipcat]

In the background, the stereo was playing U2's "Magnificent." It brought back memories of the days when she was bartending at parties all over the LA Basin, a big studio exec one day, a rock star the next. Where people thought nothing of dropping a couple of C-notes for a special drink, and at the end of the night her tip jar would hold several times her fee for the night.

Deni smiled. On the surface it would sound like she was making a killing. But between the incredible price of housing and the need to restock her supply, all those Benjamins had been a lot smaller than her youthful self back in Nebraska would've thought.

In many ways she was actually doing better here on Bodhidharma, even if she'd traveled the light-years involuntarily, scruffed along with everyone else in the LA Basin in the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Here she was the proud owner of the Waymeet Inn and the ground under it. Right now she was sleeping in the loft, but her lot was big enough to put a proper house on it if she wanted. At the present she was still the sole bartender, mostly because the Kitties were keeping bar hours strictly evenings, but she was developing a steady clientele.

Still she couldn't shake a certain nostalgia for the bright lights of the big city.

[marycatelli]

For a moment, Edur looked blankly at it. Then, "Can you pull it back?"
Susan promptly did so, taking in a whole, magnificent mountain. A tower stood higher up on the hill.
"Is there anyone in that?" said Lucius, and in a moment, Susan had shown the abandoned tower, overgrown.