Thursday, September 14, 2017

Writing Challenge - 3 - Magic City - Fairyland

Magic City - Fairyland

Unknowable melodies flowed from the trees and stones. Songs that linger on the tip fo the tongue but that can't be placed in the mind. Conjuring images of small children dancing in hidden highlands.

  • Excerpt from local newspaper describing Drakes Fairyland


Ride the Enchanted Train to Fairyland
Travel through the maze-un-seen
Watch the amazing Professor Drake
Relive your childhood on our carousel menagerie
Eat the sweets you’ve only seen in your dreams
Come to Magic City - Fairlyland
Where imagination is the limit


Come with me boy. James followed the old man in the white suite. James knew he should be afraid but for some reason he was not. He was taken into the main building under a dome of colored glass. In the middle of the room was a podium, made of white marble.

What do you see boy? Said the man.

“I see nothing.” said James.

Are you sure boy? Look very carefully.

James took a step and looked closer at the podium. It was white and raised up about 3 feet from the ground. Nothing sat on top of it.

“There is nothing there.” said James.

“Interesting.” said the man. Did you know that there are three types of people in this… world. Those who can see the magic, the gears and wheels, the light. Those who are fooled by it, they see only what they are supposed to see, what they want to do, they want to be fooled and they want to know that they are fooled. And those who are not affected by magic, they see nothing and feel nothing and are affected by nothing.”

The man looked down on the boy and said “Are you a fool?”

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