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asher553 ([personal profile] asher553) wrote2023-11-26 07:15 pm
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Writing.

[Writing exercise using three random words as a prompt, supplied by a random word passphrase generator. Prompts: shop, jaw, sound.]


It was starting to rain, so I ducked under the overhang in a corner of the outdoo mall. There was a lighting store, a Korean restaurant, and a shop I hadn't noticed before. It looked to be a resale store that sold bargain items and novelties. There was a manual typewriter, complete with ribbon. Old furniture. Well-worn board games and used books. And a plastic skull on a black wooden base, with a wind-up key. I turned the key, figuring the clockwork mechanism inside would make the thing's jaw chatter in comical fashion.

What I wasn't ready for, was the sound ...

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