FF – Portal to Nowhere
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Sarah Potter.
“Hello, Control? I’m through the portal!”
crackle crackle
“I can’t hear you, can you hear me? It’s incredible, but… all black and white! My eyes! My eyes!”
“Greetings, stranger. Do not fear.”
“But… but… my eyes… black and white…”
“That is normal, my friend. You have entered the In-Between.”
“In between… where?”
“Between whence you came and your destination. A mirror world of your own, dark and without colour.”
“Where is the portal? It’s gone!”
“You can never return. But you are most welcome!”
“I am?”
“Of course! We so seldom get fresh meat… I mean a new face haha… here.”
“Ulp.”
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so stark and scary
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Not a great place to get trapped.
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Doesn’t sound like much of a holiday.
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No. He wants to ask for his money back. Hope he’s ABTA-protected.
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Do you want fries with that?
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What sort of barbarian wouldn’t want fries with roast person?
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Sounds like the locals are incautious enough he might have a chance of surviving
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Yes, they’re like Bond villains, always letting something slip…
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The outlook “in between” looks bleak.
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It does indeed. Run!
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😅
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Reminds me of The Outer Limits 😀
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“How to Serve Man” 😀
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It is a bit like that 😮
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So he get invited to dinner but he is dinner? 😀
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That about sums it up 🙂
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I do hope he’s ‘tough’ and gives them indigestion, heartburn and gastro. D-Man at his best 😀
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Yeah, that’ll learn ’em 🙂
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Oh no! They say you should never open the portal!
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Never listen to “them”, that’s my motto!
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hahaha! When you have to seriously consider if you should listen to “them” or not, you may be too far gone!
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I wouldn’t want to go back either if they ate my face. How could I ever show my… Hmm…
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There you go. No face. Problem solved!
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A surreal trip back in time to when the world was in black and white. Thank goodness someone invented color television before I was born and I didn’t have to experience that…
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Yeah. It would have been rubbish living in the olden days when everything was black and white…
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It’s not looking good, is it?
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Pretty much nope.
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what a treat. i guess he came just in time for the holidays. 🙂
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A nice festive feast 🙂
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Yikes! Ulp indeed! So chilling, and yet you managed to make me smile too. 🙂
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It’s quite an upbeat tale of impending doom 🙂
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That’s it. I have been warned. No more time travel experiments for me. i have dismantled the Lauren in the garage.
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They never seem to end well, do they? It’s all monsters or “accidentally killing your grandfather”.
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Looks like he’s fresh meat. Oh dear.
My yarn!
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Oh dear indeed. Though I have high hopes he will escape!
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Dear Ali,
No one wants to hear they’re fresh meat, do they? Yikes.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Indeed not!
Ali
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Sounds like Christmas at some folks houses! 😉 Interesting use of the black and white imagery. I also wanted to something with it, but couldn’t summon anything worthwhile. Yours was entertaining.
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Yes, he arrived just in time for the feast 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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Oh no, not something he wanted to hear, or did he it right? Fresh meat? Very clever, Ali!
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No-one really wants to hear that, it’s never a positive thing 🙂
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I like the sound effect at the end. Not a place you hope is on the other side of the portal!
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Not quite the wonderland he was hoping for!
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Creatures have to eat… I hope it’s quick… Wonder if there are vegan activists on the other side?
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Maybe if there are, they will rescue him and he’ll become a figurehead for their cause 🙂
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Sounds like he won’t have to worry about his vision for long!
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I’m sure that’s a relief for him 🙂
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Oh dear… that slip of the tongue says it all, doesn’t it?
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Yep. Time to do a runner!
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…and then he woke up and could see colour again! (You can’t let me think he’ll be eaten! I have a weak stomach.)
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And he lived happily ever after 🙂
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Yay! 😁
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Oh dear, I bet I know what moment in time he’d chose to have again. If only he hadn’t stepped through that damn portal.
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An unwise decision indeed.
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I like the idea of a black-and-white mirror world.
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Me too. But only for a visit.
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Never walk through a magic portal without sending some other idiot first to see if he comes back… wait… that was exactly what they did.,
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Ha, yes, that’s exactly what they did!
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