Monthly Prompts (CLOSED)

[scarletcorvid]

 

Monthly

500 words (min) = 15 points

5000+ for bonus = 30 points

All Prompts Complete Bonus = 15 points 

Due Date: May 1, 2021

1. Write a Haiku

2. Write a brief scene in screenwriting format

3. Non-Fiction: Tell us about your pets. If you don’t have pets, tell us about your favorite type of animal. 

4. Fan Fiction - If You’ve never written a fic, then write one! If you have, then write a fic from a fandom you’ve never written for before. 

5. Write a story based off of a song of your choice.

6. “And on that day, everything changed.”

7. "Two forks diverge in the road...your characters have the chance to go back in time and change one thing...what is it that they choose?"

Comments

[scarletcorvid]

Title: Poetry Of Job
Prompt: #1 Write A Haiku
Author/Team: ScarletCorvid/Team Mockingbird
Fandom/Original: Original
Rating: G
Triggers: None
Summary: There is poetry in everything...
ConCrit: Yes

Calling No Answer
Press Pound To Record Message
Life At Call Center

[larissabernstein]

My response to challenge #3: Non-fiction, fave animal.
(Team Rainbow Fish)
589 words

Fruit bats

At the moment I do not own any pets, unfortunately; I had cats, a dog, even bearded dragons in the past. I hope to have cats again in the distant future because they are definitely my favourite animal and make life so much better.
I do not want to talk about cats in this text, however, but about my second-favourite animal: fruit bats (also called megabats or flying foxes)!
They are fascinating animals: extremely intelligent, with a complex social behaviour, high sexual drive that serves not only reproduction but also stress relief and social bonding, and not to forget: they are adorable.
Why the fascination with fruit bats, you ask? I’ve always liked them, but the same could be said about much of wildlife; in the last few years, however, I’ve acquired a nickname: fruit bat. I love fruits of every kind, plus I am a redhead, and for many years I’ve been most productive at night, especially when it came to creative tasks, which prompted friends to compare me with a vampire (my burning easily in the sun only added to the accuracy of this comparison). The fruit bat is also called “la roussette” (little redhead) in French, even though not all varieties have reddish fur on their head. So as a nocturnal redhead with a fondness of fruits my closest friends started to call me “fruit bat”; I cannot complain — that’s a cute and clever animal.
I am very much aware, however, that these are wild animals and as far removed from a pet as possible. I follow several blogs about bat conservation and rescue efforts, and sadly there are still instances of people keeping bats as pets — which amounts to cruelty. Fruit bats, much like all bats, need their colony and a proper territory.
Fruit bats likely originated in Melanesia and are found today in tropical and subtropical areas of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania; there are 186 extant species of them, some of which are rather large and heavy and have an impressive wingspan (up to 1.7 metre). Especially the larger species evolved to feature most athletic cardiovascular systems in order to sustain energy-consuming flight: with large lung volumes and hearts that can dramatically increase their beats per minute for the duration of flight. They also digest their food (fruits, nectar) rapidly, so they are neither weighed down nor does digestion steal away energy they need for flight.
Contrary to all other families of bats, fruit bats do not possess the ability to echolocate; their sense of smell and sight makes up for this, though. This might also be the reason for their dog-like faces and snouts.
Lifespans of up to 20 or 30 years (the latter in captivity) are possible. Fruit bats usually have only one offspring at a time, with gestation taking up to six months; depending on the species, baby fruit bats are nursed up to five months. The first time I saw the picture of a heavily pregnant fruit bat I was more than impressed — to think how she has to carry all that extra weight during flight!
Due to the current pandemic, bats have once more been blamed for transmitting diseases and viruses to humans; I need to emphasise that — while they certainly are carriers of a wide range of viruses — the actual transmission is due to many species’ being hunted (and consumed as “bushmeat”), and the general loss of natural habitat. Deforestation, climate change, and humans claiming once-untouched territory for living and farming are the important factors to blame.

[larissabernstein]

And here's my response to challenge #1: Haiku
(Team Rainbow Fish)

a winter haiku:

caressing my lips
snow flakes and coffee-to-go
cold tickling my mind

[larissabernstein]

And here is my response to prompt #5: song.

Title: Windmills of His Mind
Author/Team: T'Lara (Larissa Bernstein) / Team Rainbow Fish
Fandom/Original: Star Trek TOS & movies
Rating: general
Triggers: none
Summary: A song-inspired vignette of Spock's early days at Gol.
Link to the fic on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30980291
ConCrit: Always happy about comments/reviews, ideally on AO3.