The Carrot Ranch Challenge:
In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story inspired by “High Water”.
Click here to hear the author read his words:
The Flood
It’s been raining non-stop for almost six weeks now.
The valleys and fields are long flooded, but still we frolic on the hilltops.
We don’t care about getting wet, and we have to run free.
Even more than the great cats, the dancing gazelles, the mighty buffalo, we treasure our liberty.
Almost every other creature has succumbed to his promises, but we don’t believe him.
We see the messages left in the stones as they search everywhere.
But we’ll never be caged in a boat, no matter what Noah says.
We are different.
We are special.
We are unicorns.
Sound Bite Fiction 
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Your voice suits the story! My favourite 99wordstory of the week!
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How very kind of you, Gloria, I’m happy you enjoyed it so much.
And I’m surprised that my voice suits anything !
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So that’s what happened. They should have listened. 😦
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Nah, then there would be no myth and no magic!
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True!
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Great take on the prompt. “We are unicorns.” I love that line.
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Thank you.
We Scots all love the Unicorn, it’s our National Animal.
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Frollick until the world transforms. Great art work, too.
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Even Unicorns aren’t perfect, Charli!
Thanks for mentioning Phil’s art, I think it adds so much to my wee tales.
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Well, C.E., that was a lovely sprinkling of fairy dust.
Now, I seem to recall some nonsense warning you gave me about being the funny one on your page. I hate to tell you, dear heart, but you can’t keep a Sicilian Storyteller stifled:
https://theelephantstrunk.org/2023/04/06/water-water-everywhere/
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As if I’d ever want to stifle one as lovely and talented as you, Nancy!
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Excellent retelling of the Noah’story.
I’ll bet Noah’s irritated by the unicorns, but I’ll also bet that they’d be God’s favourite animal, always supposing…
And a brilliant merging of Phil’s images – plus the unicorn, of course.
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I’m sure they’d be god’s favourite’s, assuming she had any taste, that is!
And yes, I love his Ark!
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Ooh, a pox on prefictive text! 😉
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Oops! See what I mean!!
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Fun fact: pouring rain here for the last 3 days, indoors creating educational materials with great cats roaming free and just taught my students that the root uni means unique… go figure! A great short story that almost felt like it was written for me?!
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Sorry, Kate, your comments keep going astray just now, so I didn’t see this until now.
And yes, unicorn means one horn, and it’s our National Animal as you probably know.
If you ever want a story written just for you, you only have to ask!
Always a pleasure, Kate.
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The Irish Rovers had the last words — or was it the final notes? — about these now mythical beauties! 😭
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**beasties**
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Actually not their version here, Liz!
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Oh! Who wuzzit?
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