The First "Challenge"

So this is the first "challenge" of Rachel Harrie's Campaign dealie.  As usual it's a flash fiction prompt.  Boring.

This time it has to start with "shadows crept across the wall".  Oooooh, that's such a difficult challenge.  If they're going to mail in the prompts then I guess I'll mail in the story too.  So time to get out an envelope and a new 50-cent stamp and put this sucker in the box.

Dull Shadows

Shadows crept across the wall...He stopped typing and shook his head.  What a terrible way to start a story.  Shadows don't creep unless they're like Dracula's shadow in that awful Francis Ford Coppola movie.  Might as well start it off with "It was a dark and stormy night..."  He took the piece of paper out of the typewriter and then fetched another so that he could start over.

Before he could hit the keys, a shape came hurtling across the room with a scream.  Bobby landed right in his lap.  "Hi, Daddy!"

"Hey, slugger.  What's up?"

"You wanna hear a joke?"

"Sure, kid.  Then Daddy has to get back to work."

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"Orange."

"Orange who?"

"Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"

Though he'd heard that joke back when he was five years old, he laughed anyway.  Then he picked Bobby up to tuck him in.  Later he could get back to trying to write.

There you go.  That took me like ten minutes to write.  I hope they step it up a little for the next and final "challenge."  Nah, it'll probably be another flash fiction prompt where you have to use some obscure word no one except Mr. Burns would use anymore.