The King of Terror
This story was suggested by my son Laurence, as a possible explanation for what Nostradamus might actually have seen. I published it for the Friday Fictioneers fireworks prompt last week. Better late than never!
Grey faced, the seer staggered back from the bowl, and pressed his back against the wall of his tower room, shielding his eyes from the terrible vision which had confronted them.
Michel de Nostradamus had seen many terrible things, both in the present and the future. The plague, the graves of his first wife and their children, the agonising death of a king…
But this defied all horror. The world would end in 1999, in a welter of flame, the sky lit up all over the world by what he could only think of as the coming of a great King of Terror.
Nostradamus covered his head and moaned, while the scrying bowl continued to reflect the worldwide fireworks celebrations of New Year’s Eve. 1999.
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An original take on the prompt – nicely done.
It all makes sense now. That kid of yours is pretty smart.
What a clever idea. Maybe more of N.’s work could be explained with humor and imagination. Set your son to work on the other quatrains, maybe he’ll get a book deal out of it.
(Stranger things have happened!)
i wonder why he would see the fireworks of ’99. why not years earlier? oh well, it still has an excellent angle. well done.
Well done. I liked your story… yes, that would look pretty scary coming from the water in the bowl… especially the sight in your photo. Nostradamus was an interesting guy… your son must be too.
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