“Symmetry´s perfection”, she once said, “and there’s a single Minotaur”.
At first we tiptoed; imagining his heavy footsteps..
There were moments when we caught a whiff of predator.
There were nights when we were observed by slanted eyes.
We sustained; we found our way through mazes the priestess called our galaxy in symmetry of crisscrossed corridors. Through night and day with food provided we explored.
We were alive but couldn’t cure our lunacy, One by one my fellow travellers succumbed and ran screaming down a corridor to meet the Minotaur.
I’m left alone. Please predator, I’m ready to be preyed.
The picture today made me think of something mystic or supernatural, I imagined a maze which made me think of the Minotaur and the legend of the maze that Daedalus built, and I imagined some kind of expedition sent into that maze.
Friday Fictioneers is a great group of bloggers under supervision of our mother reverend Rochelle. Each week some of the internet’s best author gather around the same picture to write a story in 100 words.
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September 28, 2016
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Ha ha.
Nice.
All you ever need do is ask. 😛
Ha… yes but asking the Minotaur will only give you one answer…
Yeah, it might be better to go first and get it over with than have to watch everyone else get whacked off, one after the other, and me be the last one standing. 😛 Fear and anticipation about what might be coming next is the worst pain, I’m sure.
Great take on the prompt, I love the growing tension as they go mad one by one. I had a similar response to the prompt and went with a mystic maze type thing too.
I need to see your maze too… It could be that.
Love the unusual take on the prompt. It’s so amazing how we all see such different things in it!
Love to (a)maze 🙂
Watching all your friends being eaten, being trapped in a labyrinthe with no escape, constantly in fear … Yep, I can see why you’d pray to be eaten! Nicely atmospheric twist on the myth.
Yes I think I would go crazy too, begging to be devoured.
I’d possibly be first in the queue – or at least in the middle somewhere!
Nice take on the prompt. Unusual and interesting.
Thank you.. I tried something new.
Excellent observation. The picture does give off a sense of a supernatural thriller. Something that an entity would go after a human and cause them to go crazy mad. I love this poem and the prompt challenge you did is amazing. 🙂
Ha.. the challenge in finding your way through a maze with a monster is chilling though
Yes, it truly is. Much like the Shining. 🙂
P.S Got another new new poem. This one will make you flip in ways…well, you be the judge.
Exquisitely chilling! Nice Bjorn 😉 nice.
🙂 chilling is good a warm day, haunting when the wind wails.
Well spoken, my lyrical friend 🙂
This sounds like a place to stay out of. Now I am worried about dreaming tonight. 🙂
Hope you dreamed about fluffier things than Minotaur… (though personally I would be terrified even of bunnies in a place like that)
You KNOW I love this:
“We were alive but couldn’t cure our lunacy”
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Ha.. I think the lunacy is worse sans the luna.
We were alive but couldn’t cure our lunacy
Oh! I love this line. Well done – in all aspects!
Thank you … this was a piece I approached as I would do a poem.
Super stuff, Bjorn, back to your best here.
Thank you… this piece was a tad inspired by an earlier piece I wrote about a corridor.
Scary, as he watches the others devoured one by one. For some reason I also read this as patients in a mental institution, with the priestess representing the psychiatrist and the minotaur their darkest fear…
Oh yes… it could very well be seen as an allegory…
I love that line ‘I’m ready to be preyed,’ Obviously it’s spelled it goes with the predator idea, but I also like that it can be read as ‘prayed’ – that he needs help. Lovely.
Preyed and prayed wonderful contrast… Love when you accidentally add a layer of meaning.
What a great, imaginative story. Five stars!
Thank you.. somehow myths are great to give inspiration.
Dear Björn,
I echo what’s already been said. Very well done, sir.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, echoing back.
Great take on the prompt Bjorn. I love the chill this provokes.
I love to provide some chill … not far till it’s Halloween… Be prepared.
Yikes!
Love this – it’s so evocative and terrifying in an understated way.
I don’t really think you need a monster to go mad if you are locked in under such premises.
Oh how bad things must be to want to be taken. I felt the tension here.
Given time it might be what feels best,
Good story based on an ancient myth, Bjorn. Good writing. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thank you… I think this image generate many darker stories…
My first impression, when looking at the photo, was corridors of a clean mind (perhaps Mother Teresa’s). Then I thought of my own, which would resemble a hoarder’s warehouse with only tiny aisles between mountains of junk.
I like where you went with this. Very imaginative.
Oh yes.. but even in Mother Theresa’s mind there might be monsters hiding
Love the references and allusions to Daedelus!
AshleyDannie
I love Daedalus … pity he had such a careless son.
I loved the line ‘We were alive but couldn’t cure our lunacy.’ I guess he did in the end. After being left alone it would be a bittersweet end.
I think it would be a torment to tiptoe around and hearing things…
It would be a living hell. I would go looking for the Minotaur myself.
What a great idea to link the old stories to a dream-like adventure. And what I like most is the running from the predator until it becomes meaningless and facing the scary is the only way out that remains. Very much like many situations in life.
I see such fear to be almost a metaphor in a world that’s fuel by fear…
This is great! I really enjoyed this, Bjorn. I like how you envisioned the maze and how everyone got tied into the crisscross symmetry. They must all be so confused. It’s no wonder they got eaten. I still hope the last one remaining fights! Never give up, right?
I’m not even sure there was a monster to eat them… maybe it was all inside their head… often fear itself is worse than dark.
Well written again Bjorn. It’s sad but sometimes the only answer is to get it over with as quickly as possible
I’m not sure which is the worst… but fear can grind you down.
Great take on the prompt, Bjorn
Thank you.. somehow I wanted to go mystic today.
Wow chilling ending. I love the last line. It’s the perfect closer
Thank you.. the last line is often the one I spend most time with.
Same here, though sometimes I spend more time on the opening. It depends on the piece
Wowzers – a really interesting – albeit dark – concept. The close on the piece is a mind-blower. Powerful and chillingly eloquent!
I cannot decide if there was a monster in the maze or not.
Wow..what an imagination! I wish I could sometimes think like this.
Ha… I write from my own nightmares I think… so maybe you should be glad not to have these kind of stories inside.
I’ll pass on the minotaur. I’m sure you’ll keep him busy. Compelling story as always.