AWDT - Sandman - You reap what you sow.
Prompt: You are never going to find one who doesn't make you cry
Challenge:AWDT
Author : siriusmoonlite
Characters: Morpheus(Dream), Marion
A/N - I tried to give it a feel of a graphic novel without the graphics.
Word Count: 400 more or less
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Gong..... gong....gong
The grandfather clock was chiming in the hour.
Gong..... gong....gong
Gong..... gong....gong
It was only nine. The night was still young.
Yet he couldn’t wait to get into bed. Would he just lie there…awake….unable to sleep?
“There you are.”
He picked up the small pouch from the nightstand and cradled it in his hands. “Come and let us play.”
The bag had come into his possession a few weeks ago at that outdoor concert. It had been his good fortune when someone’s backpack had come too close to his hand. The pouch had been inside the backpack and he was in dire need of funds.
He had almost thrown it away when he realized there was no cash inside. There was only sand. Yet the magic grains within had been the best thing that ever happened to him in his whole pitiful life. True his daytimes were still horrible.
It was the nights that were different.
In his nighttime fantasies, he was well muscled and handsome; everyone fell over themselves to get near to him. Yes, all the young men who ignored him during the waking hours adored him in his dreams. In his dreams he allowed these men to fall in love with him. Then he left them devastated.
He grinned as he undressed and slipped between the sheets. Tonight would be the pinnacle. Tonight he would show them all. Especially……
…..he breathed deeply.....
…his childhood friend, Benjamin who had stolen every possible lover from him.
He laughed. Tonight he would draw Benjamin to himself. Tonight Benjamin would die.
Tonight all those lovers Benjamin left behind in death would weep and gnash their teeth. And this would not only happen in HIS dream. He would make the nightmare bleed into the minds of all those who had ever loved Benjamin.
He cast a pinch of dust into the air.
He closed his eyes and fell into a deep….deep sleep.
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(Dream- aka Morpheus, one of the eternals has entered the room)
“There you are.”
Morpheus removed the pouch from the man’s grasp. He had been speaking to the pouch, not to the man.
He watched as the man squirmed in his sleep.
“Marion, you have been foolish. Did you not remember that you once loved Benjamin?”
“Now the grief you meant for others will be visited upon you. I give you eternal sleep, eternal nightmare. You will fall hopelessly in love with each being you meet.”
“You’re never going to find one who doesn’t make you cry….”
“In time you will be totally mad.”
Challenge:AWDT
Author : siriusmoonlite
Characters: Morpheus(Dream), Marion
A/N - I tried to give it a feel of a graphic novel without the graphics.
Word Count: 400 more or less
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Gong..... gong....gong
The grandfather clock was chiming in the hour.
Gong..... gong....gong
Gong..... gong....gong
It was only nine. The night was still young.
Yet he couldn’t wait to get into bed. Would he just lie there…awake….unable to sleep?
“There you are.”
He picked up the small pouch from the nightstand and cradled it in his hands. “Come and let us play.”
The bag had come into his possession a few weeks ago at that outdoor concert. It had been his good fortune when someone’s backpack had come too close to his hand. The pouch had been inside the backpack and he was in dire need of funds.
He had almost thrown it away when he realized there was no cash inside. There was only sand. Yet the magic grains within had been the best thing that ever happened to him in his whole pitiful life. True his daytimes were still horrible.
It was the nights that were different.
In his nighttime fantasies, he was well muscled and handsome; everyone fell over themselves to get near to him. Yes, all the young men who ignored him during the waking hours adored him in his dreams. In his dreams he allowed these men to fall in love with him. Then he left them devastated.
He grinned as he undressed and slipped between the sheets. Tonight would be the pinnacle. Tonight he would show them all. Especially……
…..he breathed deeply.....
…his childhood friend, Benjamin who had stolen every possible lover from him.
He laughed. Tonight he would draw Benjamin to himself. Tonight Benjamin would die.
Tonight all those lovers Benjamin left behind in death would weep and gnash their teeth. And this would not only happen in HIS dream. He would make the nightmare bleed into the minds of all those who had ever loved Benjamin.
He cast a pinch of dust into the air.
He closed his eyes and fell into a deep….deep sleep.
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(Dream- aka Morpheus, one of the eternals has entered the room)
“There you are.”
Morpheus removed the pouch from the man’s grasp. He had been speaking to the pouch, not to the man.
He watched as the man squirmed in his sleep.
“Marion, you have been foolish. Did you not remember that you once loved Benjamin?”
“Now the grief you meant for others will be visited upon you. I give you eternal sleep, eternal nightmare. You will fall hopelessly in love with each being you meet.”
“You’re never going to find one who doesn’t make you cry….”
“In time you will be totally mad.”