Friday Fictioneers is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields who provides us with a photo prompt. Each week’s challenge is to write a 100-word story inspired by said photo prompt.
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz
The title’s dumb and kind of misleading. I love it. It gives me an image of a Sasquatch and Elvis walking in the woods, holding hands, and singing. “You ain’t nothin’ but a Sasquatch…” Then they make love. All right, shit just got weird.
Bigfoot & Elvis (Oh, R’lyeh?)
“Here we are, Lake Shakanawa.”
“This is gonna be quick. Don’t go anywhere.”
“You don’t think you’ll find anything?”
“There is no leviathan living in this lake.”
“People claim to have seen it.”
“People claim to have seen U.F.O.s, The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, & Elvis.”
Dr. Phillip J. Lawrence exited the seaplane and commenced interviewing the “witnesses.”
“It’s like the squid in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.”
“It looks like the Kraken.”
“It’s Cthulhu.”
“Oh, R’lyeh?” Dr. Lawrence replied sarcastically.
As Dr. Lawrence was contemplating how to have the whole island committed, a tentacle wrapped around the plane’s tail.
NobbinBlog 
Ha, I’m guessing Dr Lawrence might not survive to share his discovery with the rest of the world.
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I’m not sure about his survival, but he may be stranded on the island.
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Funny, liked this
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Ha ha – great last line!
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thank you. There’s nothing worse for a story than a bad ending.
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Your story reminds of a short horror story I read as a kid that scared the bejeezus out of me, called, “Thus I Refute Beezly.” The stuff of nightmares!
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I hope I could also scare the bejezzus out of you. No one should have too much bejeezus in them.
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lol
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I read the story. I can see the similarities. The dad seems scarier than Mr. Beezly.
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Glad you could see the similarities.
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Ye of little faith are going to pay big time!
Fun stuff!
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I don’t think the believers are going to fair much better.
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I think not either.
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Nothing like a first hand experience when you’re researching a topic. And this will be like nothing he’s ever experienced.
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Yeah, it’ll be a new one. I bet he’ll be excited to start his research, at least until he starts his research.
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Dear Nobbin,
Apparently Dr. Lawrence is about to have an attitude adjustment. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Yeah, the hard way. Thank you, Rochelle.
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What a fun, carefree story 🙂
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I was going for horrible and menacing, but I’ll take fun and carefree. Thank you.
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Great twist at the end.
By the way, Elvis and Tupac live in a van down by the river.
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Thank you.
I appreciate the update. That’s a big difference from the lavish lives they were living. The last I heard, Pac was living in Cuba, and Elvis was hiding in plain sight disguised as an Elvis impersonator.
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Something is there in the lake and it does not like Dr. Lawrence enquiring.
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Not so much. I think it wants to remain undisturbed.
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Intriguing. Wonder how it will all work out for Dr. Lawrence. Great writing.
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If it were a movie, he would be the hero and save the day. Unless I wrote it. Thank you.
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HOLY COW! This is a scene from a horror flick – They WERE NOT crazy after all! Nicely written!
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It wouldn’t be as horrific if they were crazy. Unless they sacrificed Dr. Lawrence to the non-existent leviathan. Ah, that would have been good. Dang it! Thank you.
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