This is an entry for the Friday Fictioneer‘s hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Open to all , ready to rack the right side of the brains!.
The objective is to write a 100 (word limit is not rigid) word story based on a photo prompt.
My story follows the photo prompt below
Copyright –Kent Bonham
Genre: Fiction
The Haunted Mansion
He inherited the mansion, its surrounding estates and riches. Yet had none to assuage his lonely heart.
The thought of jumping off the mansion occurred to him quite often. Many a time he climbed to its roof but vertigo got the better of his intention as he neared the ledge.
A split second before he drifted away, he saw the tall mansion rise before him and smiled at having tricked his nemesis. As simple as falling in bed on one’s back.
Aila screamed “Master has fallen down call the ambulance”
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** I am not sure if the story comes out clearly so adding a bit of an explanation 🙂
Nemesis here refers to his vertigo problem. He avoids it by jumping off the ledge backwards i.e. like falling into bed on one’s back, so as to avoid looking down from the top of the mansion and trigger a vertigo incident. Bit of a stretch on the imagination possibly?
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Maybe he did slip…just one step too far
more like a deliberate attempt.. like falling on the bed with ur back turned to it, so that he didn’t have to see below and avoid a vertigo experience ! 🙂
That building looks sinister – capable of pulling off such a thing.
Good work!
Thanks Parul
Creepy! 🙂 I got the feeling of being in some of those old B&W horror movies. Well written!
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
I enjoyed your written words. The building does have a load of personality doesn’t it? Makes your story very believable. Well done.
Thanks Penny !
Sounds as though the house got him in the end. And it looks so lovely!!
Two small things–“occurred to him quiet often. Many a times”–“quite” and “time”. 🙂
janet
Janet, Thanks for spotting the errors ! 🙂 u remind me of my physics teacher in school ;). i used to carelessly forget to mention the units of measurement and other stuff in my lab record and she would mark the errors with a red pen.. my entire record used to be filled with red marks after correction 😀 ! it did the trick ! i improved 🙂 final exams not a single mistake on my part ! 🙂 😀
liked it, and thought the solution to vertigo was clear and ingenious…
Thank you! so glad to hear that the solution came out clear 🙂
great imagination 🙂 i enjoyed this creepy tale. the building really looks capable of such sinister a act ^^
Thanks Kz.. 😀
Dear Shreyank,
A strange way to counteract vertigo. ;). Poor lonely man. Nice read.
shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle
What a clever fellow to seduce his nemesis so intelligibly…!
Sort of like ‘reverse psychology’.. I really enjoyed that.. 🙂
Glad you liked it 🙂
The building has inspired so many eerie thoughts:) a tale well-told
Thanks
I liked that you incorporated the evil smiles of the balconies! This was so good! 😀
What a nasty fall…new way to see this building….
Yeah… He would have broken a few bones for sure!
Good job, and I saw both the mansion and vertigo as possible nemesis. I like the idea that there was room for interpretation.
Thanks !
Hi Shreyank – an interesting story. I like the idea that the thing that stops him from killing himself is his nemesis – normally the nemesis would be out to kill you! I really enjoyed this 🙂
Thanks El 🙂
That is one way to thwart the vertigo!
Saved by his nemesis…or not. depends if he really wanted to die or not.
yup!
I wish I had time to read all the comments. I agree with Bjorn here – that maybe the building was just waiting for the right time? Wanting to be his only love and unable to fulfill that roll – finally let him go.
Thanks for your visit. Glad you are enjoying ‘our’ tale.
Thanks for your visit too Jules and yes I am very much enjoying ‘our’ tale ! as are the other fictioneers’ 🙂
It’s clear what’s happened from the well-written third paragraph and doesn’t need the explanation. Good work!
Thanks for stopping by Perry 🙂
I thought I’d be the only one to get a jumper out of this but there were a few. This is very well written. You really brought us into the head of a sympathetic character committing what (to the reader) seems an inexplicable act.
That was different. A nice take on the prompt.
Thanks !
Good for master, figuring out how to overcome both his vertigo and lonely heart in one move. But seriously, well written, clever.
thanks for stopping by 🙂
I liked the image of the tall mansion rising before him as he fell with his back to the ground. These buildings seem to be out to get people. No appreciation for the people who clean and care for them.
Thanks for stopping 🙂 glad you liked it