Challenge
Of a Snake | $25 of Juice
Write about a snake; physical or metaphorical, abstract or painted, realistic or cartoonish: in poetry or prose. Is your subject akin to the great Jörmungandr or Apophis? Perhaps more humanistic and Machiavellian? Maybe just a simple garden snake on the hunt or perhaps a character in an Aesop fable? The choice is yours, write of a snake. $25 in Juice to my favourite entry.
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Colourfully frightening
There was a small snake in my house. It was hiding behind the couch. I try to let it outside through the window in the living room, but it wouldn't go. I hate things that slither.
It moves very fast to the kitchen. I try to follow him. There is some bread baking in the oven. The snake goes inside it. I turn off the oven and carefully open it. I am astonished: several snake skins lay beside the perfectly baked loaf of bread. One is red, one is purple and the other one is blue. The snake has vanished.
I wake up.