Daily Writing Challenge

F-20

Going to try another Writing dot Com tools' prompt or two today. First up,

As he was looking for a wrench, the monkey grabbed his arm!

Why was he looking for a wrench? Was he working on his car? Probably. Where was he looking for the wrench? In a tool box? In his trunk? On a pegboard over his work bench? What was the monkey doing there? Was he a pet? Is it a Jumanji situation? Is he broke down in some jungle? Is the monkey trying to help with the repairs? Is it trying to warn him of some impending disaster? Is the jack stand about to fail and he needs to get out from under the car now?

All that prompt gave me was questions. Too many questions. Let's try another one.

You fall in love with someone you have never met in person.

This reminds me of the women who write letters to serial killers in prison then end up marrying them even though they are never getting out. Men on death row can have dozens of pen pal girlfriends. All of them totally besotted with them. This prompt plus the fact that my wife is watching a YouTube video on Ted Bundy makes me think about the woman he cheekily and sneakily married during one of his trials. There was an obscure law in that state that if a marriage proposal was made and accepted in front of a judge the couple was effectively and legally married. How sick did she have to be to say yes? He was on trial for murders. He was looking at the death penalty. Thinking about it, he had asked family members either when he was planning to escape from jail in Colorado? Utah? Whatever anyway he asked him what states were especially heinous when it came to the death penalty. They told him Texas and Florida. He ran to Florida and then killed people there. Did he do it to purposefully get the death penalty? Was he suicidal? Then he goes and tries to represent himself. He was unqualified and incompetent. He hurt his case more than helped it. He passed on a deal that would have taken the death penalty off of the table. Did he think death penalty was better than life in jail? He attempted to manipulate people as his execution approached to postpone his execution. Did he change his mind. Was he just a big blowhard coward? Probably.

Okay once more around the bend.

"The pelicans, sir, had nothing to do with it!"

Wtf? Why was it even in question that the pelicans could have had anything to do with anything? What was it that the pelicans did not do? Did someone lose the treasure map? That would suck for the pirates. Were the pelicans just a diversion so that the monkey could steal the map? What is up with that damn monkey. Why does it want the map? Is it the dread pirate Thumbtoes? Is it the map to his bountiful banana island? I think he wants to get there to retire. How did he sneak onto the ship? Was he invited as a mascot? Did he know Captain Hook and Tinkerbell? Why do I assume this is all taking place on a pirate ship? It could be on a fishing boat and the pelicans could have been hanging around to eat the stuff that they had to throw back. But what could the issue be that the captain might think the pelicans did anything?