06 December 2011

Divine Hell blog challenge - Limbo

Oops. It's past midnight. I wonder if my flash story will turn into a pumpkin? A limbo pumpkin. What would a limbo pumpkin look like? Pale, maybe. Wraithlike. Anyway...

http://ladyantimony.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-blog-challenge.html


The letters on the sheet in front of me swim and ripple into new configurations as I stare at them with stinging eyes. There is nothing here that means anything, nowhere I can insert the crowbar of my mind and twist.

I have not passed. The vehicle of my future will stall here.

But, until I walk out, neither have I failed. I occupy interstitial space, where nothing is decided.

I turn my gaze to the clock and will time to stop, will my mind to have this new power to make up for my failure in mathematics.

Just… stop.

7 comments:

  1. That's perfect! Says so much in so few words. Love it!

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  2. p.p.s. Generation gap? Because to me a limbo pumpkin is all bent over backwards trying to get its big pumpkin belly under that pole...

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  3. Numbers can be a bit hard to get your head around...

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  4. Hey, good to be in another Antimony challenge together!

    I definitely like the math test as Limbo. All those nightmares about tests really are windows into hell.

    I especially like the image of the "insert the crowbar of my mind and twist." Such a fun way to describe problem solving.

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  5. Reading this at school. I'm certain many of the students would find themselves in your story.
    Love the imagery your words create.


    When I hear limbo I think of the dance. I think a limbo pumpkin would fit Dee's description XD

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