Sorry in advance for the long explanation. This is half story, half writing exercise. Last fall, someone came up with 50 prompt words, and I chose to try to write a sequence of 50 drabbles that make up a gentle Legolas Aragorn slash story (nothing graphic). But keeping each segment to exactly 100 words proved too difficult for my wordy brain, and after a dozen, I got discouraged and quit. So after about the 15th drabble, the word count is anywhere betwen 100 and 250 words.
Obviously, reading this will be a bit different from reading a real story - it'll be bumpier and a lot more episodic - so if you loathe reading little dribblets of prose, you might want to skip this one.
Here are the words (sorry about the long list; the table formatting disappeared):
fifty; birthday; cake; candle; gift; pensive; artistic; bright; poetry; river; lord; horse; soldier; road; sell; scent; save; sea; feather; promise; double; shore; prairie; child; fight; high; bow; tree; grant; greet; blood; hand(s); stern; kiss; hair; wind; life; death; bed; apple(s); water; fire; safe; angel; worship; bread; sand; air; red; cloud(s)
Prompt 1: Prairie
The daylight was bright and harsh, and the wind was chill. Yet the man on horseback, travelling at high speed through the long, yellowing grass had a broad grin on his face. Shouting aloud, he urged his eager steed to gallop ever faster.
It was a good horse, but no thoroughbred, and there were no signs of high breeding about the man, either. With long hair flying free in the wind, a heavy, plain cloak about his shoulders, and serviceable steel at his hip, he seemed a nomadic adventurer, self-reliant and self-sufficient.
Aragorn had never been fond of court life.
tbc