The photo for this week’s prompt is of the enigmatic Mister Fox…and for those who thought they had seen the image…or something similar before, it features on the cover of Mister Fox and the Demon Dogs, the second of the graphic novels written with Stuart France in honour of the Langsett Foxes who dance beneath the moon.
Bone-white winter gleams in the moonlight. Silent shadows hunt in the night….
The Hunter’s Moon sails above dark hills, caught in the empty fingers of the treetops. A mysterious company gathers to kindle the flames of the dance; arcane patterns of fire woven in the blackness to the beat of the drums.
Silent as ghosts in the darkness, others follow their trail, lurking in the night to watch… and wait… seeking their chance to usurp the forest throne…
Old Fox wanes with the fading year, his fur touched by the silver of frost. Can he hold his realm against the ghostly challenge of the Demon Dogs?
Yet all is not lost. They have seen it in the smoke… three magicians use their arts to breathe life into the spirit of Fox…
If you have written a piece for this week’s challenge and it does not appear below, please leave a link in the comments and I will add it to the list. Pingbacks do not always get through.
As always there were some superb contributions this week and I would like to thank everyone who took part. I am sorry I could not reblog as many as usual while I am separated from my defunct computer, especially as once again there are new writers joining the challenge. It was interesting to see what the image suggested to people… when in fact it shows a moment from a magical folk dance.
Please click on the links below to visit all the posts and leave a comment for the author! A new prompt will be published later today and I will reblog as many as I can through the week as they come in and all contributions will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
Come and join in!
Mask
Knee-jerk reaction
Blind preconceptions linger
Beneath the surface
Unknown and misunderstood
Fear clouds perception’s lenses
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Sandi from Flip Flops Every Day
D. Wallace Peach at Myths of the Mirror
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Helen Jones from Journey to Ambeth
Ashwini Nawathe at Kaleidoscope of my life
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Yet again wonderful entries! And now I know where that photo came from!!!!
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Being one of the book cover photos, it was one of the few on my laptop 😉
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Lol!!
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😉
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Reblogged this on ladyleemanila and commented:
mask round-up 🙂
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Thanks Lady Lee. 🙂
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Hey you missed my entry in the Round-up of the last Photo prompt. Sharing it’s link here:
https://kaliedoscopeofmylife.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/his-part-of-heaven-writephoto/
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Added to the list, Ashwini…my apologies!
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Hey thanks. No need to apologize! I know your comps not working. So it’s ok n I might as well have added a wrong pingback. Thanks for including me in! Cheers 🙂
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As of today, my computer is back up and running 🙂 Now all I have to do is go through the thousands of recovered files and spring clean… which may take me till next spring 🙂
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Hahaha… Best of luck! I don’t envy you 😛 At the start of this year my sister lost files on her laptop and I know how much work it was once she has recovered them!
May the force be with you! :*
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I may need it, Ashwini 😉
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Love your mystical writing, Sue. Another great line up with wonderful participation. I always look forward to Thursday mornings :-).
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Thanks, Diana. It is lovely to see so many new faces each week too 🙂
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thanks for the contributors listing. This way i am able to re-read the contributions. 😉
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I’m glad you enjoy reading them , Michael. There are some wonderful tales 🙂
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A lovely contribution by you, Sue. I can’t believe how many participants you have, fantastic!
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I am just so grateful that people have picked up this prompt…we get so many good takes every week…and so many different ones too!
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