It is July, it’s raining hard outside. Min and Kevin, sister and brother, who are aged at 8 and 10 keep shifting their eyes from the computer screen to take a look at the window next to them.
Their mother is out working; their father has gone to a business trip. They were told to stay at home by themselves, and they are playing a computer game called “Magpie Tale”, in which they can invent their own adventures and have fun.
They are given a glass globe at the moment, there are three fish floating in water, plus a hand shaped red coral in the center of the ball.
Just as Min and Kevin begin to think about what kind of adventure they could have with the given prompt.
“Clap!”
“Crash!”
Suddenly, the old oak tree in the backyard of their house is cut by the lightening and heavy branches of trees fall and hit the roof of the house.
The electricity is out! The computer screen turned blank and black.
“Help.” Min screams.
“The roof is leaking.” Kevin cries as he pulls his sister from the chair trying to find a spot to stay and remain safe.
“Bang.”
The door to their backyard swings open and stormy water jumps in along with the mighty and angry wind, min and Kevin are swept down on the floor.
“I am dying.” Both of them holler inside as their room is flooded with water from all directions.
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“Where am I?” Min notices a big fish in the water with herself floating in a round shaped ball.
“What happened?” Kevin sees a small fish in front of him while he is swimming in water inside a closed ball.
“I am a fish in the computer prompt.” Both Min and Kevin wiggle their tails as they stare at one another in amazement, they are the fish in the prompt, they have left their parents and can not go home any more.
“Hello, Min and Kevin.” A noble voice came from behind and they see another fish.
“Who are you?” Kevin tries to be brave, because he knows that this fish is the only hope to save him and his sister in order for them to go back to human life.
“I am the Master of imagination.” The gold fish keeps winking at Min, while he answers Kevin’s question.
“Can you help us out? My sister and I want to be a normal boy and a normal girl, we don’t want to live inside this small limited space with No computers or home cooked meals.”
Kevin softens his voice, trying to be nice.
“Sorry, I can’t help.” The Master of imagination turns away, ignoring Kevin.
“Why? Please, I know you can. At least let us know how we can make it work.” Min rushes to the Master’s side, she does a beautiful dance around the master.
Silence.
“Look at me, I need YOUR HELP.” Min blows a bubble toward the Master.
“The list of magpie tale participants, do you have it?”
“Of course not.”
“mmm..” The master stops, “alright, I will give you the addresses of all of those kids or Magpie Tale participants, both of you must visit all of them, one by one, read their adventures on this particular prompt and reflect what you have learned from them. Once you have reported all the adventures previous players have gotten, you will win freedom to go home, new game players will be coming in to replace you. Got me?”
“Thank you very much. “ Min and Kevin give a sign of relief.
And the following are adventures or magpie tales they have visited before they are given freedom to go home.
| 1. She Writes 2. A New Day 3. Catalyst 4. David 5. Shigune Matsui 6. Berowne 7. Jane Jones 8. Aoife. Troxel 9. Tumblewords 10. mother sparrow 11. Joanny the dowser’s daughter 12. Crusty Crone 13. Amy 14. Amy tries again 15. suz 16. Angela NZ 17. ~ T~ 18. phil |
19. Helen 20. sheri 21. Maha 22. Kathe 23. Kuyer Judd 24. Katherine 25. willow 26. Peg 27. Elise Everyday Goddess 28. Susan Sonnen 29. Christine 30. The Bug 31. Kathryn Byer 32. Yemalla 33. Crystal Mary 34. Melinda Owens 35. Strauss 36. rel |
37. Little hat 38. Lyn 39. brian miller 40. Nathalie (spacedlaw) 41. A letter to God 42. JC 43. Sam Liu 44. Lisa B 45. Ronda Laveen 46. shakira 47. Jennifer 48. Carmen’s Chronicles 49. Teri 50. Sharon Ingraham 51. You’re next! |
You are next, go on and enjoy the fun!
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This Is Jingle’s entry for Magpie Tale at
Hello, How are YOU?
Today’s kids play so much computer games,
Jingle combined the fact and the wish to write a
magpie tale so that we have a story, a fantasy to enjoy.
hope that you enjoy my entry, and please FEEL FREE
to visit all pareticipants so that you see a whole picture of
what everyone is doing. cheers!
Happy Tuesday to you All!
😉 😉 😉
Jingle Nozelar 
WOW…EXCELLENT, SO WELL DONE, Jingle..
Brilliant, absolutely…
I could never write like that!
Bravo, I am so proud of you!
Great tale!
hugs
shakira
That was so fun Ji 🙂
Excellent story jingle. I am so glad it wasn’t a real storm, had me worried for a second. You are doing really good on writing stories.
well well, u are simply the talented one, this was a superb story, u rock at this, william has competition for short stories lol xx luv u xx
As always great writing. I felt like I was right there… Have an amazing day..
nice I’m writing mine and it’ll be up by wednesday or thursday
Wow….A magpie tale that comes to life and lives right in front of us (on your post)….more or less like we are Min and Kelvin (I felt like them when I got to the end of the read) Lovely work Jingle. In the words of Jay Z “You can pay for school but you cant buy class” and you just showed another bit of class here. cheers!!!
That was fun JIngle. It looks like I have a little more work to do. Happy Tuesday.
marvelously done jingle…i knew you would not disappoint…at all…
How very clever of you …. well done!
this lighthearted magpie entry was so much fun…interesting the way you included all of us…wonderful you, jingle 🙂
This is delightfully clever. What a fun and whimsical way to use the photo prompt. This could be a children’s book.
I am so glad you joined Magpie Tales _ I always enjoy reading what you write. Lovely.
Joanny
Ji, Nice to see you at Magpie’s :).
Wow, I loved that. Look forward to seeing more in the future.
Thank you for posting a comment.
Angela
Oh, Jingle! Your story, a story within a story, is intriguingly inviting. Very fun and cleverly composed. I enjoyed my visit!
Gosh that was quite some imagination. I kept on wondering what happened next. Too good Jingle. 🙂
You are so creative. Great story!
your talent is amazing and varied.well done Jingle.
Wow Jingle that was so clever & so very creative. Wonderful Magpie! And how very lovely of you to list us all in your story…Magpie Tails is sooooo much fun!!!
Very creative Jingle!
What a fun take on the prompt! Well done.
Ha Ha, very clever. I loved the twist you gave. Fun post.
Nice job, Jingle!
bravo! fantastic story!
hahahaha Master of Imagination, indeed!! Totally surprised me. Good job.
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