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Today’s
Prompt:
What if you’re going to write a story about
desperation with an evangelist as the main character and a memo as the key
object? Set your story in a ghost town.
Imagine
a ghost town called Terracotta Country
placed under a spell so it ends up looking like a scene carved out of a King
Midas’ tale. And this young evangelist who is not really an evangelist but a traveling
bible salesman (who got dubbed evangelist because of his trade) chances on the
town and realizes the whole town is gone on mass vacation.
The
doors are left wide open; properties are left scattered from hell to breakfast
and a visitor could have said it’s business as usual only there’s nobody home
to do business. However, Daka—that’s the name of the bible salesman—soon
discovers something peculiar about
this town. The darkness in each room he enters is a solid thing. He can shut
out the persistent hum that will no doubt, drive him off the bend if he stays
in there too long.
Plus,
and this is the highpoints of the drama, everything that should be alive—human
and livestock—is composed of, you guessed right, terracotta and is frozen, like statues in place.
Keep
your pen bleeding.
Akpan
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