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"How long have I been asleep? It must be close to a thousand years."

Write a fantasy story that contains this line. The character who says it can be whoever you choose.

Writings

Dr. Frank

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein had been before her time. She could dream it but no one at that time could create it. But now in 2023 an ambitious but reckless young doctor was going to make it happen.


At a young’s age he had received the nickname Frankenstein. This loved the nickname and even more he couldn’t get enough of that original story. He could practically recite Mary Shelley’s book by the ...

Into The Magic

The guardian laid motionless on her pedestal. The woman approached with caution holding her breath. Was this truly the same person she danced with all that time ago. As a dragon her life was eternal. She mistook the guardian for a human and so quit searching for her. ‘I regret not finding you sooner my love.’ She took the pale green hand of the guardian into hers, god it was so much smaller than h...

Thousand Year Slumber

“How long have I been asleep? It must be close to a thousand years.”

The dryad trapped in a slowly corrupting Forrest spoke in the sleek slender arms of the elf.

“You dramatic piece of driftwood, you got high again, didn’t you?” Eyed down the barbarian cradling the dwarf acorn dryad in his veiny arms.


“Found a new mushroom… have you noticed how the waters full of ugly tree people?”


“If Wiz was h...

Reboot

Bzzt, Bzzt, the world glitches with a voxelated effect; cubes shake in to place and disappear, as a blue hue makes place for full color, while Logistic and Maintenance Droid 3 restarts.


LM3 begins a physical systems check. No areas of major damage detected. Limited movement in right arm and hand. Require basic maintenance.


They then try to access their data banks, bits and pieces of information ...

Rose colored glasses

How long have I been asleep? It must have been a thousand years.

Turns out I was only blind

Put on a pair of new glasses to look through

Because I had figured I was in love

Before I met you I put them on

and when the flags popped up I never saw their red hue

I only noticed their shimmer and ripples in the wind

"How beautiful they are. It's like they were planted here just for me. How kind of him."...

Incomplete

I’m too impatient to rewrite, so this is just a first draft :/

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How long have I been asleep? It must have been close to a thousand years.


No one responds anymore.

No one starts talking with me.

No one follows me out the door

into the cool, September breeze.

No one twirls in the sunshine

That enhances your judging eyes.

“Who is that girl?

She’s so incomplete.”


But I’m more complete than...

Millennium Madness

Once upon a time in a distant future, a man named Ethan woke up to find himself lying on a crude makeshift bed in what appeared to be an abandoned building. As he gazed around, he realized that the world he now found himself in was drastically different from the one he remembered.


The cityscape outside was crumbling, overrun by nature and ruins from a long-forgotten civilization. Ethan stumbled o...

Years

It’s been a thousand years

Cried a thousand tears

Lost in time through the fears

No longer is it what a I hear


Forever am I waiting

Time slows while hesitating

Not sure what they want from me

Not sure what it is I see


Sitting quietly watching clocks

Sleeping soundly doors locked

Birds fly formationed flocks

Round we go throwing rocks

XxTwisted...

Secret Love

Certruse, in a deep deep sleep for 2 weeks. 14 days no one has spoke to her. 336 hours and nobody realized she was gone, except one person. The prince of the kingdom of miredore. Miredore was in the smaller side of things most people new everyone, but Certruse was very secretive, emotional, and fragile. She fell in love with the prince but insisted on keeping it a secret. Keeping that secret meant...

anywhere but here

“how long have I been asleep?” i ask my parents. apparently it’s been about 30 minutes . it’s not like i’ve had a hard day, all i did was go to school. i’m not exhausted from school work, i’m in almost all on level classes. i’m not exhausted from anything else, i do nothing. so why am i so tired? the second i come home from school, i head to my bed and fall asleep. the truth is, i fall asleep to a...