A New Life
It’s Friday Fictioneers time again! As always it is hosted by Rochelle and this week’s 100 word photo prompt has been provided by fellow Fictioneerer Adam Ickes.
You can see other entries here – more are added every day, or have a go yourself – it’s fun!
That looks to me like a Native American in the background – if it isn’t, it is for this story!
Copyright Adam Ickes
They’d broken away from their tribes, eschewing modern technology. They wanted to recapture the lives of their ancestors. Over a hundred had gathered in a remote valley to live according to the ways of a long-gone age, following a history gleaned more from John Wayne movies than from textbooks.
From time to time backpackers wandered into their valley. Waste not, want not. Why just take a scalp when the entire body is covered with good, useful skin?
Of course in this modern age they needed money, so they sold their products in town. Their best-seller?
Hiking boots, 100% quality leather.
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OMG Drali that is simply creepy – I will never look at a pair of leather hikers the same way again…
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This story came to me in under 5 seconds – you can see how darkly my mind works 🙂
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hhhmmmmm… again CREEPY!!! well done though, the best ideas always come quick and just flow out…
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True, some people worry about going with their first instinct but for Friday Fictioneers I almost always do. I hate having to force a story.
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Payback’s a bitch.
It’s wednesday. You know that, right?
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We do Friday Fictioneers on a Wednesday because we’re real eager beavers! We can’t wait until Friday 🙂
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that was perfectly creepy! awesome. 🙂
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Thanks! FF gives me plenty of opportunities to let my “dark” out 🙂
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This is delightfully creepy! I’m a sucker for a dark story. Excellent use of the prompt.
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Glad you enjoyed it! My stories usually turn out fairly dark 🙂
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Another dark masterpiece 😉
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Thanks! I saw you “went dark” this week as well 😉
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Awesome story. One of my favorites so far this week! And yes, that is a Native American in the background.
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Thanks! It was a great photo with the focus on the boots. It gave me my story in under 5 seconds which is a record – boots made from leather – Indians take scalps, basically skin, skin to make leather (more or less) – done 🙂
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Revenge of the Indians, above and beyond the casinos. 🙂
janet
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I don’t think another casino was traditional enough for this group of ne-er do wells!
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Ew. Gross. But in a good way!
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Yeah, pretty gross, the thought of wearing that on your feet 🙂
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Yet another John Wayne movies have ruined society 😉 Creepy and good story!
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Oh, John Wayne movies aren’t so bad, though unfortunately not always historically accurate 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Your story’s are so good, thank you.
I hope you create a special reading, writing nook in your new home.
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Thank you for reading and enjoying! I always look forward to your comments.
The bedroom in the house is very large (in a modern build it would be a two-bedroom house), so there’s plenty of room there for my desk. Latest news – completing in “early January”. We shall see 🙂
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Very sweet of you to write that.
Wish you were better at math!
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I’m sure I can learn – how hard can solving two dimensional surface integral equations (my nemesis at university) really be? 🙂
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Gruesomely good! A clever take on the prompt.
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Thanks! This story came to me worryingly quickly 🙂
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Dear Draliman,
Wow, this one creeped me out. Do I want to know what they did with the rest of the bodies? Don’t blame John Wayne for this. Eeeeeew. But you wrote it well. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I did think about the remainder of the bodies but didn’t have enough words!
I blamed movies for their view of history because I wanted to make it clear that any stereotypes the breakaway tribe had were gleaned from fiction. To be honest, after seeing so many cowboy films I don’t know what’s fact or fiction from those days so I took the safe way out (sorry Mr Wayne) 😦 .
I’m glad you enjoyed it anyway 🙂
draliman
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You are so morbid…
not complaining 😉
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“Draliman the Dark” they would have called me in Middle Earth 🙂
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DR,cool stuff this-like the way your mind works ;-)Enjoyed this gory story 🙂
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I’m glad you enjoyed it, though I might be happier if my mind didn’t leap so swiftly to such dark topics 🙂
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Ah,I have that tendency too-most of my pieces have some murder tucked in somewhere,lol!Am off to my school reunion in a few days,and won’t be bk before 25th-so wishing you Happy holidays DR,tc & God Bless:-)
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Happy holidays to you too, and I hope you enjoy your reunion 🙂
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Thank you-yes I will-this is the 4th time we batchmates are meeting in the last 8 years-so u know how it is ;-)Am so excited
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Oh that’s a place I’d never go shopping for boots.. clever take.
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Ah – but you’d never know! Bwahahaha 🙂
I’m sure they’re very comfortable – yuck 😦
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I started to say your story was something like mine in reverse but then I got to the end. Lol
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Yes, I see what you mean! Your guy is hopefully leaving the reservation to find something a little less gruesome than my little band 🙂
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Yes, hopefully haha
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Yuck! Those hikers must have been very thick-skinned, and no doubt the meat came in handy too?
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I’m trying not to think about what they did with the remainder of the bodies. Sometimes a one hundred word maximum is a blessing – keeps me from expanding too far into the details 🙂
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Love it! Clever, funny, gruesome… Great flash fiction 🙂
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Thank you! There’s nothing quite like a gruesome twist at the end, I reckon 🙂
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It’s pulling it off that is the challenge, and you did! 🙂
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🙂
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