Week 14 EC Microfiction

The Goblin Platoon

Author Note: I decided that I wanted to write a story about goblins. I wanted to create a story where goblins are a separate, but relatively peaceful society. They only hunt animals in their territory, but then humans start expanding their cities. This leads to humans attempting to exterminate goblins to take their territory. My story follows a group of goblins fighting back.

Goblin Platoon

Humans kill all, we fight back.

Depiction of a goblin by John D. Batten in 'English Fairy Tales'

Goblin Platoon

Humans have decided to expand their territory and for us goblins that means death. We only sought to live our lives, but they grew greedy. To defend our homelands we have decided to take up arms. The humans are a lot bigger than us, sadly for them, they are muscle-bound idiots. They seek only to crush us, but they did not expect us to retaliate. This is our land, we know it better. They may have armor and weapons, but we have population. Every battle we win the stronger we grow. We take their armor and weapons. We will win.

Week 14 Microfiction

Giant's Awakening

Author's note: I wanted to take the story that I used for the storybook assignment and rewrite it in short forms. I really find it interesting to rewrite stories in more restrictive formats. I already wrote a long-form rendition of this story, but I want to stay truer to the source material.

Giant's Awakening

Hundred foot man, woken by elephants.

Giants's Awakening

The giant was feared even by the gods. Tricked into a life of slumber, he rarely awakens. The times he does awaken are truly disasters, his hunger leads him to eat all in sight. One day he was needed by his brother. His strength was needed for a battle of revenge. His brother was humiliated by Rama in battle. The giant was forced to sleep, but he was still an intelligent man. He tried his best to talk his brother out of battle, but the giant was still a loyal man.

The Awakening of Kumbhakarna