January 2, 2024, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story using the colour red. It can be a descriptor, a setting, a character, or a metaphor. How far can you get in a story by expanding “red”? Go where the prompt leads!
Red Or Yellow? – by Hugh W. Roberts
Red walls? The time machine had red walls!
It also had a large red ‘inviting-to-touch’ button.
I could smell smoke and see flickers of flame before deciding whether to push the red button or the smaller yellow one. But that must have been my drunken imagination playing tricks again.
“Here goes!” I yelled as my hand with red-painted nails pushed the red button.
My eyeballs bulged when the time machine travelled down rather than up or sideways.
“You should have read the instruction book before pressing the red button,” cackled a horned being. “There’s no way back from Hell.”
Written for the 99-word flash fiction challenge hosted by Charli Mills at the Carrot Ranch.
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