ObsideanWarrior
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This is intended to be a little different from your average story. A woman takes her daughter camping in the Sierras...backpacking into the deep woods, not pulling an RV up to a space. It's a mother-daughter bonding trip.
The weather forecast was fair with scattered afternoon showers. But who can believe the weatherman anyway? For the showers turned out to be anything but scattered. An electrical storm unlike anything the women had ever seen rumbled in at astonishing speed, sending mother and daughter alike running for cover. Wind, lightning, hail, torrential rain...and more lightning.
At the end of it all, the skies cleared. It was almost sundown. But, as they will soon find out, the storm was more than a storm. It was a gateway to another world or universe. Did it bring something into our world...or move the hapless women to another?
Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the women being transported to a fantasy world with barbarians, orcs riding wargs, and other monsters, a demon entering our world, some sort of time travel (i.e., the women are now in the path of Zulu or Mongol raiders). Or anthropomorphic extraterrestrials. Basically anything. My only caveats are no vampires or machines. And if you do choose a sci-fi type invader, that's okay but just keep the space operatics turned down, thanks.
"Oh dammit to hell." Stacy flinched a bit at her mother's outburst of temper as another flash of lightning came from the storm cloud that was visibly moving toward them on this, their third day in the field. "Scattered showers my ass." The breeze, which had been stirring the trees around them and helping them cool off from the day's long hike, was now turning to the east and freshening into full-fledged wind.
"Oh Mom, I'm sure it will blow over," Stacy said to Monica. The wind was stirring the mother's blonde hair, and she shook her head. "Looks like that ledge over there is good." The daughter pointed to a place under a rock wall about a half-mile away.
"I hope we can get there in time." Another flash of lightning punctuated her words. A deep bass rumble of thunder followed uncomfortably close on its heels. The women trotted across the mountain meadow, 6200' up in the Sierras. It was a beautiful meadow--the grass was just beginning to yellow here and there. And the sky had been a deep, lovely shade of blue.
But the storm cloud had now overspread the sky. The shelter seemed to be getting closer all too slowly, and the storm all too quickly. Two more shots of lightning, brilliant and near.
In the end, it was a dead heat. The first fat, furious drops of rain fell about thirty seconds before the women reached the shelter, but the downpour did not unload until a few seconds after they trotted into the shallow cave. And it was a doozer. Sheets of rain, blasts of lightning, and a gusty wet wind, now a full gale. Visibility was down to about a hundred feet. Then eighty. Then an actinic flash so brilliant, thunder so overwhelming, it seemed to cleave the ladies' very souls. "Wow, this is better than the Fourth of July," Stacy said. Her mother, a little scared herself, put her arm around her daughter.
Almost on cue, the rain tapered off, and the wind diminished. It still gusted fitfully, but it was a proper wind, no longer a blustering gale. The mantle of rain lifted, and the women peered out over the meadow. Monica was the first to notice something was wrong...
And what is wrong is up to you, my writing partner(s) to determine. Multiple partners are welcome, but once the first partner has come and "set the milieu," please write within that.
The weather forecast was fair with scattered afternoon showers. But who can believe the weatherman anyway? For the showers turned out to be anything but scattered. An electrical storm unlike anything the women had ever seen rumbled in at astonishing speed, sending mother and daughter alike running for cover. Wind, lightning, hail, torrential rain...and more lightning.
At the end of it all, the skies cleared. It was almost sundown. But, as they will soon find out, the storm was more than a storm. It was a gateway to another world or universe. Did it bring something into our world...or move the hapless women to another?
Possibilities include, but are not limited to, the women being transported to a fantasy world with barbarians, orcs riding wargs, and other monsters, a demon entering our world, some sort of time travel (i.e., the women are now in the path of Zulu or Mongol raiders). Or anthropomorphic extraterrestrials. Basically anything. My only caveats are no vampires or machines. And if you do choose a sci-fi type invader, that's okay but just keep the space operatics turned down, thanks.
"Oh dammit to hell." Stacy flinched a bit at her mother's outburst of temper as another flash of lightning came from the storm cloud that was visibly moving toward them on this, their third day in the field. "Scattered showers my ass." The breeze, which had been stirring the trees around them and helping them cool off from the day's long hike, was now turning to the east and freshening into full-fledged wind.
"Oh Mom, I'm sure it will blow over," Stacy said to Monica. The wind was stirring the mother's blonde hair, and she shook her head. "Looks like that ledge over there is good." The daughter pointed to a place under a rock wall about a half-mile away.
"I hope we can get there in time." Another flash of lightning punctuated her words. A deep bass rumble of thunder followed uncomfortably close on its heels. The women trotted across the mountain meadow, 6200' up in the Sierras. It was a beautiful meadow--the grass was just beginning to yellow here and there. And the sky had been a deep, lovely shade of blue.
But the storm cloud had now overspread the sky. The shelter seemed to be getting closer all too slowly, and the storm all too quickly. Two more shots of lightning, brilliant and near.
In the end, it was a dead heat. The first fat, furious drops of rain fell about thirty seconds before the women reached the shelter, but the downpour did not unload until a few seconds after they trotted into the shallow cave. And it was a doozer. Sheets of rain, blasts of lightning, and a gusty wet wind, now a full gale. Visibility was down to about a hundred feet. Then eighty. Then an actinic flash so brilliant, thunder so overwhelming, it seemed to cleave the ladies' very souls. "Wow, this is better than the Fourth of July," Stacy said. Her mother, a little scared herself, put her arm around her daughter.
Almost on cue, the rain tapered off, and the wind diminished. It still gusted fitfully, but it was a proper wind, no longer a blustering gale. The mantle of rain lifted, and the women peered out over the meadow. Monica was the first to notice something was wrong...
And what is wrong is up to you, my writing partner(s) to determine. Multiple partners are welcome, but once the first partner has come and "set the milieu," please write within that.