Welcome to this weeks Friday Fictioneers a well conceived and creative writer’s challenge.
For more information, click on the link. Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields, “hostest with the mostest” explains how you too can be a part of this fun opportunity of improving your writing skills: The photo prompt (all rights reserved, please respect) from Sandra Crook follows, enjoy:
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Fantasmagorical Machinado!
Come, take a ride on me. Created with a master crafter’s precision and skill from another place and time, I’m honed to a burnished beauty of possibilities and imagined realities. I can give you what you want and … I promise to give you the ride of your life.
I can do that, you know. Yes I can. Teleport backward and forward through time and space. Scientifically speaking, I’m an artificial intelligence. Far beyond that, I am pure magic and know what you’re thinking, feeling … what you need. Trust me, believe in me. I can take you there, deep into the farthest reaches of your imagination and beyond. Come …
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~ thanks for stopping by to read,
Penny
The Why About This 
A metal sculpture/magic carpet; that will work!
Thank you, I like the way your worded that! 🙂
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I really am glad to have found Friday Fictoneers. Keeping up with reading what others write is as fun as writing a piece.
Magic is always a tad scary, but usually…it all works out for a really fun adventure!
Friday Fictioneers is fun isn’t it. I agree with you and your thoughts, hope you’re having a fun weekend!
Hi Penny
I would like to place an order for one of your Machinados please. I really enjoyed this story, so magical, so many places to go..
Well done
Dee x
great voice you used here.. a li’l frightening yet very persuasive. really made me wanna hop on the bike ^^ well done
Thank you kz!
I’m intrigued I’ll hop right on and take a trip. Great imagination here.
Oh good, I am glad you enjoyed. I’d take the trip in a heartbeat … if it were offered! Thank you for stopping by and commenting, very much appreciated my me!
I’d like to think that I’m a pretty adventurous gal. Yet because the machine is so persuasive I think I’d probably run the other way screaming witch craft. Of course I’d regret ever taking the ride. Great story. I wonder what happens to the person who actually has the nerve to take the ride?
Hi Atiya, thank you for visiting and reading my story. I’m guessing anyone brave enough to go would have the time of their life! 🙂
It would be nice to have this kind of tool, but I fear there are some thoughts that are best left in my mind!
Wow Joe, makes one wonder what thoughts are in your mind! 😉
I love the voice here, but what a scary thought – a bike that knows your innermost desires. Great idea – has my imagination whirring 🙂
Thank you! It was fun the “write of it all” but then I love science fiction. Oh good I am pleased I got the creative juices flowing, love when that happens myself! 🙂
I think people should be careful about taking the bike seriously about its invitation. It sounded just that bit wheedling to be sincere. Nice story, obviously.
Thanks, life’s a little like that isn’t it? you know, the ol’ sounds too good to be true and then we (well, “I” sometimes) fall for it anyway, sigh, but boy would I love to have one of those for real!
Hear you.
Sounds a bit too coaxing to be trustworthy. Still, a time machine… 🙂
Well you know … nothing ventured … 🙂
This was exciting and scary at the same time. I want to take a ride, but will it end well? Nice.
According to “Fantasma”, (shortened from the whole name) It always end precisely when, where and how the way you want it to! And thank you for your comment, very much appreciated!
What I would do for one of those……Good stuff. Well done.
Tom
Yes, me too! Thanks Tom!
Nice voice in this story!
Thank you very much.
Dear Penny,
Where do I purchase a ticket? Very well worded fantasy/sci-fi piece. I enjoyed it.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you very much Rochelle! I’d like a ticket myself! 🙂
I rode this machine, Penny. Its voice was powerfully persuasive 🙂
Oh goodie Celestine, so glad you enjoyed the ride my dear friend! 🙂
An inventive title! And your story followed suit. Teleporting through time would certainly be the ride of my life!
Yeah, I wish I really had one too!
the bike marketing itself very well. This was inviting
Thank you very much, Padmini, how are you doing my friend?
I am fine, Penny:) How are you?
Pretty well, going a little cross-eyed from the draft I’m hoping to finish within two weeks. The creative writing for blog posts actually releases some of the tension (if that makes sense to you)! 🙂
Yes, I think I do:)) Blog is something we write for our pleasure, right? Is it a fictional or a non-fictional piece you are about to publish?
Actually a publisher asked me to write an inspirational/self help book focused on adult women today, who cope with daily multiple roles (all of us – lol). So hoping it goes well when I send the rough draft, she’s been patiently waiting for.
Good luck to you, Penny. I am sure the book would be fine, inspirational and meaningful
Thanks Padmini, I guess I’ll find out soon enough, right now just focused on getting it completed. my sincere thanks for your vote of confidence!
How we would all love to have this little Fantasmagorical Machinado! In fact I could use it right now!
Yes, me too! You don’t happen to know where we could get a couple of these do you? 🙂
I thought a machinado was drink I could buy at Starbucks.
Your words flowed in such a sensuous lilt that made me feel less of a time travel and more of Bolero by Ravel. MMMMMMmmmmm.
The ride of my life
Randy
Wow Randy … Whew! Warm in here! Thank you very much!
No, thank you.
If you’re warm, consider me a fan…. 😉
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It really did lend itself to your story – there is indeed something magical about it. When you examine the picture closely, there are so many things it could be; so many things it could do. But, lol, there goes my time travel idea. Time for plan B 😀
Thank you very much. And you’re a nut Lyn … I find that completely delightful! 🙂
Love this, Penny; well done… 🙂
Hi Carolyn! Thank you so much for commenting! 🙂
Hmmm…suspiciously hard sell…!
Yeah I was chatting with your muse the other day and she had a few suggestions to offer …
AnElephantCant help wondering
If he can fit in Penny’s magical machine
It will be quite a blast
To visit the past
Or the future to see where he’s been
Yes he can. This machine is amazingly accommodating! It would be a blast wouldn’t it? 🙂 xx
Come pick me up!
xx 🙂 🙂 xx
On my way RoSy, on my way, even as I write these words to you … 🙂 xo
Wow that was quite a read… almost felt I needed to buy one…
I can let you have a used one cheap bulldog, just a few million fantasy miles on this beauty …
Very convincing voice in this. I almost believed it myself… 🙂
Thank you Sandra, me too and I wrote it, lol! I want one anyway! 🙂
ohhh i would love to have such a bike 🙂 wondering where does one get a license to drive that thing 😉
As far as I know, no license needed! Just a temporary suspension of reality and lots of imagination! Great huh! I want a ride too! 🙂
Nice, Penny! I could feel the pull of attraction. If it ever stops being the Fantasmagorical Machinado (love that), it could be a salesman/salesperson/salesmachine.
janet
Thanks janet. ha,ha,ha, love it!
That would be an awesome toy. I would love to go forwards or backwards in time. However – only to watch without interacting. I suppose going back would be better. You can just sit and watch things. Going into the future allows you to alter things. I’m going too far into the physics of things now so I’ll stop LOL
Great story Penny
Nah you can go into the future with no worries either, Alastair. (remember it’s magical) so it begins where physics leaves off. Actually since theoretical physics is also mind over matter (so to speak) very few of the basics (if any) of time travel are factually proven only mathematical theories, I don’t suppose there’s much difference anyway, theoretically speaking, my friend! 🙂
I think you’re right. I would love to go into the future to see how my kids will turn out 🙂 See grandchildren … great grandchildren. Hmm .. maybe the lottery numbers as well (I had to add that bit 😉 )
How much of Robert Heinlein have you read?
Never heard of him. What has he written?
Considered one of the fathers of modern science fiction/fantasy along with Asimov (Like Asimov, Heinein was a prolific writer). Wrote during the same time period. Early on he wrote for teenagers mostly sci-fi magazines at that time, Then moved into the adult arena of sci-fi literature. He definitely was not only into all the things we’ve just been discussing, but had a very dry sense of humor and a great love of people and life. I recommend starting with his first book or shooting straight to the one called “time enough for love”. He won numerous awards for this book published in 1974.
Thanks Penny. I’ll see what I can find. I like Science Fiction. I have recently brought a couple of Greg Bear books that I used to have, so I like the “heavy” Sci-Fi too. Although when Bear starts talking about seeing hexadecimal stacks going along a singularity, I kind of lost it a bit. 😆
Greg is very good – a bit heavy, you’re right! Heinlein is a great story teller. You just fall in love with his characters and ideas. So he’s fun to read. But highly intelligent. Every one of his books has a moral to it, about society. Some plain to see, others hidden in the context. 🙂
I brought Forge of God and Anvil of Stars. Both brilliant books, but I also really like Eon and Eternity.
I think you have to have already read some Science Fiction before reading his. I have never read Aasimov or Clarke though. Watching 2001 put me off reading any of his.
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I want that bike! I’m sure it was talking to me. Very Outer Limits there Penny, well done. 🙂 I also enjoyed Robert Heinlein many moons ago. I am currently revisiting Larry Niven’s ‘Fleet of Worlds’ series, I love my Sci Fi. 🙂
Thank you, fellow sci-fi nut! Me too as in big time, if you ever want some new sci-fi “suggests” I’d be happy to share and the other way around too, always looking for good stuff in the sci-fi world of things! Larry Niven is great isn’t he? 🙂
Thanks Penny, I will take you up on that. My only problem right now is falling asleep by the third page from sheer tiredness. I will ask you when I am nearing the end of the book, but it could be another month!
No worries, my favorite way to go to sleep at night, lol!