PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz
NIGHT WATCH
A space rock was going to pass near Earth, and he’d wanted to get a photo of it. His best chance had been Lookout Butte at 2:30 A.M., no matter what the superstitious locals said.
Okay by day, but, at night…. There’s something that eats cattle – and coyotes – and the occasional tourist. Next they’ll claim that Bigfoot has a condo up there.
He’d heard something as he got his picture, probably a groundhog, later, as he was going through his setup shots, he spotted those two red eyes watching him. Maybe these hicks really know something after all.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
The unexplainable can often be explained by locals, if we bother to listen.
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Very true. Too many of us are too busy talking, to listen to the wisdom of others. 😯
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But… I eat cattle. Among other things.
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I ate a tourist once. She said she liked it. 😳
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I think I’d quit setting up my shots and hightail it outta there!
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You’ve pointed out a problem with my timeline description. I meant that he viewed this picture at a later time, possibly the next day, and was shocked by the eyes. I would change ‘but’ as he was going to ‘later,’ as he was , but WordPress is having a company picnic, and I can’t access my stats, or the edit right now. Perhaps later. 😛
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Well hell. I went back to read it and see what you mean. “Going through the set up shots …” I am the one who misinterpreted it. Makes total sense now that you’ve ‘splained it 😉
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But that wasn’t mansplainin’. 😯
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Well No! Of course not!! 😎
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Hey Grumpy, I like reviewing staged, and setup shots. I see all sorts of new things. “Night Watch” tracked well for me. Two red eyes are better than Three.
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As Rochelle says, It’s not what we look at. It’s what we see, – often in retrospect. Hindsight is 20/20. Three red eyes might mean the Gobblemonster brought his half-wit son along. 😉 👿
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I like the way you tied in two elements of the prompt in your story.
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Why, thank you young lady. 🙂
Stop back later when I fuse comedy and drama, and get confusion. 😉
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Dear Archon
So them locals ain’t yokels after all. 😉
Shalom y’all,
Rochelle
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Oh, they’s still yokels. They just got smart after Grampa got et. 😯 😆
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I really like this. World-weary dry humour used to emphasise the drama.
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I often use humor to emphasize different things. Sometimes I don’t even realize it, till someone like you points it out. Thanx. 🙂
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This is a horror story that I don’t think ever happens–sure gave the photographer a scare, which is really all that was needed 🙂
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Hangin’ around some strange place in the middle of the night…. What could possibly go wrong? Thanx for the observation. 🙂
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The locals usually do know what they’re talking about. Good story!
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