For those who are new to my blog, I do a Visual Fiction flash fiction every Sunday, based around a picture of mine that I find inspiring. If you’d like to join me in this, feel free to use the picture to write your own story. Just give me the link to yours in the comments, since I’d love to read it. I write stories of all genres and moods, although this one happens to be rather dark.
Taken in Jeonju, South Korea
I knew that magic had a price, but it never occurred to me that it might extend beyond the one foolish enough to try to wield it.
*
“Jules, you’re mad! Quit it!” I shouted, trying to be heard above the rising winds. Jules was standing in the circle he had drawn in the forest clearing, shaking convulsively. At the time, I thought it was some sort of ecstasy of unholy power, but now that I reflect, it looked more like a person who has grabbed onto an electric fence and has tapped into a source of power far too vast for them to handle.
I ran, just as the clouds overhead began to seethe and spread a poisonous blue hue across the sky. It moved faster than I, and by the time I returned to my apartment, it had covered the city. A rift of dazzling light appeared in it and the last thing I saw before I shut and locked my door was a rain of dark objects beginning to fall.
*
It has been two days. I have not heard from Jules, but if he is dead, he is lucky. The city is in a panic at the unearthly scourge that has overrun it. There are many names for them: imps, goblins, demons. No one knows what they are, only that they are incredibly hard, if not impossible, to kill.
I sit and cower at home now, regretting any part I played in Jules’ mad schemes. I know that if they should find me, the concrete walls of my apartment will offer me little protection. Still, I wait and pray that this storm, like all others, might eventually pass.
The Green-Walled Tower 
April 7th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Oh, I am SO there, sir. XD
April 7th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
When we play with “things” – sometimes we end up as their “playthings”
April 7th, 2013 at 9:49 pm
Very wise sentiment, my friend. Like a man trying to become the leader of a pride of lions.
April 7th, 2013 at 8:04 pm
great photo!
April 7th, 2013 at 8:48 pm
Nice flash fic, and a phenomenal picture. That sky is just breathtaking. Good stuff. 🙂
April 7th, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Thanks. 🙂 I took it from my apartment window. The clouds were weird that day.
April 7th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
Awesome. I will do this one day too.
April 7th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
That would be truly awesome.
April 7th, 2013 at 11:48 pm
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April 7th, 2013 at 11:50 pm
I love this photo! Here is what I did with it… http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/green-walled-tower-visual-fiction-7-april-2013-the-dome/
April 7th, 2013 at 11:51 pm
I’ve just been reading yours. I love it.
April 8th, 2013 at 5:18 am
This is such a great picture. I keep looking at it.
April 8th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Thank you. I was going back through my pictures and found this one and was surprised I hadn’t done a Visual Fiction on it yet. I really like it too.
April 8th, 2013 at 11:53 am
I love the idea to use your photography to inspire your writing. 🙂
April 8th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Reblogged this on veronica3883's Blog and commented:
Very fascinating, love it! 🙂
April 8th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
that photograph is fabulous! loved the story 🙂
April 8th, 2013 at 6:50 pm
posted mine in mycybernovels.wordpress.com, hope you will enjoy it! 🙂
April 8th, 2013 at 8:52 pm
I’ll go read it now. I really liked your one for the fog. 🙂
April 11th, 2013 at 4:36 pm
you missed the one about ghost train- your visual fiction portraying an empty subway station!
April 11th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
did I? Is it the one that with the ghost riding the train? I read that somewhere. Let me go check.
April 11th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
no, no ghost this time 🙂
April 9th, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Spooky, David. A well-told tale. I want to read more!
April 9th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Sharmishtha said the same thing. Maybe I’ll write the full account later.
April 10th, 2013 at 5:29 am
I hope it passes too, David; however I think you’re a goner…!
Eek..! That was well told; you had me from the start..!
April 10th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
I hope I’m not but we’ll see. Would you like to see a longer version of this? A couple other people mentioned that, so I’m thinking about it.
April 10th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Go for it, David.. You’ll enjoy it, I’m sure…! 😉
May 10th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
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