vignette

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
Coil

Anyone can join, with a 50-word vignette in the comments.

My venture:
The mist from the waters rose up, sank down, coiled around.

Acted like mist, in fact.

Except for the colored lights playing through the coils, tinting them red and blue and green and gold, he would not have given it a second glance. Less than if there were no mist.

Comments

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

The snake coiled in the path and rattled its tail, refusing to let us pass.

[marycatelli]

And why should it?

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

Good question. From the snake's point of view, no reason. Except that it probably had better things to do; we were pretty boring to watch, as we sat back and waited for it to move.

If this had been a certain kind of story, the snake might have asked us a riddle before we could pass.

[marycatelli]

Hey, maybe it just liked it as a place to bask.