FF – Safety First!
Here is my contribution to Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by C.E. Ayr.
The creature looked across the swimming pool to the people beyond. It could almost taste their flesh, sweet, succulent. A family enjoying an evening picnic – little did they know they would soon fill its belly! It crept forward slowly, carefully, then sped towards them, tripped, fell in the swimming pool and drowned…
What?
Wait a minute!
This won’t do. Where’s the grisly ending?
Who puts an unlit, unguarded swimming pool in the middle of a caravan park?
Let’s try again…
The creature, high from its success at swimming class, looked across the large, yet perfectly safe, puddle to the people beyond…
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draliman on life 
It’s like Star Wars. Why are there all those open pits with no guardrails in spaceships and space stations? Who are the engineers in this galaxy far, far away? They could build hyperdrives, but floors were… What? …beneath them? Apparently, not.
I like your rewind and restart. There’s always a way to get to the gruesome ending, even if it’s swimming lessons.
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There was a Twitter account once pretending to be conversations with the Death Star architect, it was quite funny.
The creature will go to any lengths!
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Really? I would have enjoyed that.
Except walking around the pool.
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Not fair – you can’t make it that easy for the creature surely!? 🙂
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He’ll probably get impaled on some inappropriately-placed railings at some point… 🙂
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Poor creature!
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All the hoops he has to jump through just for a tasty meal…
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Now the creature has a qualification, I’m sure it’ll fit in as a model camper
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Came for a meal, pitched a tent, never left.
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Creature from the safe puddle lagoon?
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Doesn’t really have that “horror film” ring to it, does it?!
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Will the creature know enough to watch out for those hot dog skewers? He may find himself getting grilled. Bwahaha…
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Mmm, grilled creature. Tastes like chicken!
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Poor creature needs to eat in style!
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If only it could get to the “food” without any nasty accidents 🙂
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Your starting my FF year with a giggle.
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I can’t beiee I did that, – “You’re” :0
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I’m glad you liked it! And don’t you just wish sometimes that you could edit your own comments… 🙂
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hehehehe! Mermaid-approved! 😀
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🙂
I bet you wouldn’t have had any issues with the pool!
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Coincidentally, Buster’s had similar adventures like this just trying to get a meal out of a trash (rubbish) can….
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Maybe “the creature” is Buster’s less agreeable cousin…
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Even puddles can prove problematic! Nice one.
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He’s one of those vicious killing monstrosities who doesn’t like getting his paws wet!
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Subverting the genre – like it! Great take on the prompt, Ali
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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would take 2 be a charm? we’d have to wait and see. 🙂
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I’m sure some other random thing will get in his way 🙂
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That was fun, thanks for the good laugh. I want to know what that creature is, though.
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I don’t. It’s way too scary! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Either way, he’s still coming for them. Still grisly! Love it…
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But will he ever make it? I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Try, try and try again. I still want the creature to drown.
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I’m sure something unfortunate will happen to him no matter how many goes he gets.
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I like the way you played with this. In my story there’s a different ending..
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Yes, no blissful unawareness for your campers.
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I had an out loud laugh on this one, Ali. Bravo!
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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You are welcome.
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I guffawed, Ali! Love it!
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Wow! Swimming classes for monsters. What will they think of next? Hilarious, Ali. 😀 — Suzanne
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It’s “diversity” 🙂
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I suspect that the family’s teenage daughter will destroy the creature with a roll of her eyes and some heavy sarcasm
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Ha! She’ll probably confuse it by accusing it of getting in the way of her mobile signal.
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LOL…wonderful!
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Thanks!
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Maybe the swimming classes also made the creature benevolent… and they will all end up sharing a vegan barbecue
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We can only hope!
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Love the take one/ take two stuff – very funny. Perhaps the creature could go to agility classes before taking over the world ?
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He could certainly do with some training! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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No no, pleased let them live🙂
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Fingers crossed!
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Swimming lessons should be obligatory at any monster elementary school. So many lives could be unsaved
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How are they supposed to eat people, trashing around in the water like that? Dreadful.
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Haha… health and safety above all else! 😀
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We wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to the creature while he’s on his way to lunch… 🙂
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