Round Up 24

Last Week’s Prompt:

Create a story from the point of view of your character’s shadow.

Amanda

I wrote a story about a shadow. I like shadows, because they can do fun things like act out plays and form shapes and stretch across multiple surfaces. But they also remind me that some poor photon traveled 92.96 million miles across the empty void of space only to be stopped from hitting the earth by bouncing off you and hitting someone in the eye, assuming someone is looking at you. That being said, if no one is looking at you, do you still exist? Do you cast a shadow if no light is striking you? How do you know it’s there when you can’t turn around to see it? It could be creeping, moving, sneaking up on you, waiting for the perfect moment to spring and enact its terrible revenge against you, the dull human who keeps all the nourishing light away from it.

And now, the weather.

MY VOTE: Korrin

Korrin

I played with the idea of writing a cool story from the shadow’s view but then I was lazy and didn’t. So I created Aaron, pronounced Erin, not A-A-Ron. Aaron is a normal guy. He’s an accountant at a firm in San Diego. He puts everything into his work and is therefore single. He’s not that appealing to women but you could call him decent enough. I wanted to make sure that his shadow had a different personality than my character. It seemed right to make them one being, but separate nonetheless. This is why the narrator, aka the shadow, uses both “I” and “We” as a pronoun.

I wanted to explore the different aspects of what shadow’s do. Because shadow’s are just the absence of light, they can change in the blink of an eye. They move, the elongate, they disappear, and if a shadow is an intelligent being then it must have an opinion on the constant change. That’s why I brought in Alice in Wonderland. It was the best example I could think of with a character who loses their way because of constant physical change.

MY VOTE: Amanda

Kylie

If y’all thought I wouldn’t take this opportunity to write about a sad ghost, then y’all don’t know me at all.

This is a shadow person. Although technically shadow people are genderless (fun fact: all of my shadow people are basically what skeletons would look like if they wore a morphsuit), this one is much more feminine. She is obsessed with Jensen, like a creep. But, like, a sad creep.

Shadow people have always intrigued me, and I tend to write about this paranormal, outside view of a world that is increasingly normal. How do you relate when you are inherently not part of this world? In my stories, they usually do it by being unintentionally creepy.

Jensen is either a nice guy, a douchey ladies’ man that doesn’t deserve such a sweet guardian angel ghost, or a serial killer who is actually murdering all these ladies that Mimi is jealous of. Whatever interpretation you like the best.

(also Jensen would u smooch a ghost b/c HECK YAS)

MY VOTE: Amanda

Next Week’s Prompt:

“Everybody made fun of you in hero school because your superpower was ‘free refills,’ but now you discover it has bigger implications than anyone realized”

(found via Reddit)