Visual Inspiration2025-10-26 #VisualInspiration prompt:
Do you talk to your ancestors?
Use this image as inspiration to write a very short story based on it.
C. KnodelI woke up from deep, peaceful slumber. Someone was standing, holding me in his hands. The same fool like last year?
- Great Hythlodeus, let us participate in your wisdom! he chanted.
- No, I replied.
- But… here, the Magic Book of Dromelbek says that the Great Hythlodeus was a sympathetic and friendly person.
- Really? Are you sure you have taken the right skull from your collection?
- What? There is only one skull. I followed the book up to page...
- Enough! What do you want this time? Turn silver into lead? Water into wine? Your mother-in-law into a toad? Or the opposite?
- But no! I need help in calculating the celestial spheres.
- Do you always talk like that?
- When Mars is passing through Capricornus, but Luna and Venus…
Astrology crap! Not again!
- Spare me the rest! Just tell me your date of birth.
- Me? But I need to to find out the future of Duke Mervyn of Bottenham.
- Oh, that old bloke!
- You know him?
- Sure I do! I know everything, forgot? Tell him, he’s a duffer! And that he’s still owing me three bottles of Old Tawny.
- I can’t do that.
- Tell it in old Greek then.
- You are not very helpful.
- I told you so. The truth is, he’ll die of intestinal obstruction within the next two years, if he doesn’t get rid of his wife, shave his balls with an oyster shell and drink a cup of goat’s pee every morning…
- You are humbugging me!
- Never! Virgo herself told me, after making out with the twins, you know, that was a ride...
Finally! He let go of me! The next thing I saw was something burning. A book…
Then, everything went dark again.
@knodel 🤣 let the dead rest in peace! This got me thinking, if we could really contact the other side, for sure a good deal of people would just say "f***k off, it's no longer my problem!"
Ixtli Dekami 
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"To be or not to be, that is the question…"
Luke always wanted to say that with a skull in his hand, and now was the moment. "But, myself, let's not disgress", he told himself. A real human was the final piece his machine needed. With that he could bring back the skull owner to life, and then, his dead son could live again. He was so happy that he forgot to run a standard criminal background check on the skull before reviving a *VERY* violent serial killer…
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@ixtlidekami To kill or not to kill. That is the question. Or maybe kill a mockingbird, that works too...