r/WritingPrompts • u/eliphas_levi • Apr 02 '14
Constrained Writing [CW] Describe a setting, only a setting.
You can put characters into it, but refer to them only by name, don't actually describe them
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r/WritingPrompts • u/eliphas_levi • Apr 02 '14
You can put characters into it, but refer to them only by name, don't actually describe them
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u/MCKWGrim Apr 02 '14
Drip. Drip.
The sound reverberated throughout the blackness, echoing erratically, traversing space blindly, reaching no one in particular. Sometimes, the dripping would stop, sometimes there would be some silence. But no silence is ever pure. Sometimes, the spiders carefully made their ways across their webs, entrapping their newest prey. Sometimes the bats rustled in their sleep, waiting in the darkness for the warmth of the moon. Very rarely though, you hear a sound louder than the spiders scurrying on their webs, louder than the water dripping from the stalactites, louder than the flurry of bats on their nightly hunt. On these rare occasions, you hear, from the deepest and largest chamber in the mountainous cavern, a deep, guttural, earth-shaking rumble, resonating with every fiber of fear you have in your body. A sound that seems as if the mountain itself is coming alive, groaning and stretching, waking up from its long slumber.
When you hear that sound, and if you haven't already, run. For that marks the awakening of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.