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This is my response to the Freewrite prompt, a daily writing exercise that I am really enjoying doing. Thank you @mariannewest for hosting these.
I’ve been challenging myself to make most of the freewrites I do match a particular theme. So far, I have made them about wild animals that tend to get a bad reputation, and am finding it to be a very enjoyable challenge. This one I’m going to change, as I’m not sure how to fit this prompt to wild animals. I’d be curious if anyone else had any other suggestions.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-495-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-saxophone
Prompt: “Saxophone”
I pulled the saxophone out of my case. The shine of the spotlight in the club hit it just so, and it radiated with a glorious golden light. This moment was always worth it. I loved being here, with my sax, getting ready to play for a crowd of people. I put my sax to my lips, and started playing that smooth jazz that made me so well known.
After the show, I went backstage and set my sax on a table. As I did for every show, I wanted to do my maintenance prior to packing up for the night. As I started polishing it, something happened. My saxophone started shaking, quivering, and then floated up off the table into the air. I stood there, dumbfounded, unsure of what was happening or if I was going crazy. A bright blue light started emanating from nowhere, skewing the colors of the room. Dark blue smoke began billowing out of my saxophone, as it let out a glorious, deep melody.
The smoke started swirling around, and a shape began to coalesce from the smoke. As it solidified, it became more and more humanoid, until I was looking at a blue man with a little hat and a vest. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I had somehow released a genie from my saxophone.
“What is your wish, my friend?” asked the genie, in a deep, smooth voice, reminding me of my sax. With a smile, I thought to myself about all the good I could do in the world with these wishes, and knew that things were about to get a whole lot better.
This one took a fun turn. I had no idea where I was going with this story when I started. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
I found both of these awesome images from this artist, Redmer Hoekstra, at their Flickr page here or their website here. I think this is ok sourcing, but I am going to email the artist to make sure. Maybe they’ll like my writing, who knows. If anyone knows better about sourcing from Flickr, I would greatly appreciate some advice.
Unfortunately, I do not play the saxophone. Or really any musical instruments for that matter. I hopefully will someday have time to learn. I am particularly fond of hang drums, and would love to have one eventually. They sound beautiful.
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