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PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
It’s funny what becomes a tourist attraction. Dragon Hill the most unexpected. Nothing left but ruins and a quaint little town that offers tours, cashing in namesake. Ghosts of beasts said to haunt the land. Magic practitioners arrive in droves with the hope of resurrecting the ancient creatures; those who control the flame rule the world. The mentality lead to extinction eons ago. Rumour has it, bones rest within the hill. All they need is a spark of life. Fairytales or specs of truth? All the same, let sleeping dragons sleep, the wild uncontrollable.
The tour guide waved as the train departed and waited for new arrivals.
Tannille 
How interesting we both imagined dragons
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Brilliant picture and great minds.
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More and more folk who want to rule the world, hmm?
(In the third line do you mean ‘practitioners’?)
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Yep, because the world needs more. On the bright side they might cull each other…
Thanks for the word error! Now corrected.
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Dear Tanille,
Imaginative piece. It is kind of amazing what landmarks become tourist attractions, isn’t it?
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Especially the miserable ones like old jails.
Thanks Rochelle!
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All in a tour guide’s day, I guess. It must get pretty wearing.
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Hope it pays well.
Thanks S!
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The tour guide’s job is to fuel people’s dreams and fantasies.
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I imagine it’s an interesting job.
Thanks Liz!
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Certainly make for an interesting vacation tour! Nice one.
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Book me a trip.
Thanks Iain!
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The repertoire of tour guides has improved greatly, well told
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Hopefully they pay more than peanuts.
Thanks M!
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Haunted hotels do a great business. Eureka Springs, AR (near me) makes a fortune off tourists visiting the Cresent Hotel.
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Is it really haunted? I guess that’s the million dollar question. Have you been? Sounds like fun.
Thanks R!
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The building is beautiful!
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I like your slant on the business of tours, and sightseeing. Nice take on the prompt.
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Thanks P!
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A familiar theme song, childhood fantasy, Thomas the tank engine knows who built that castle and when, but doen’t know why. Was it a practice for Stonehenge?
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You should join and write a story 😀.
Thanks P!
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Plenty of room for ghosts, dragons, and fairies in the grounds of a ruined castel 🙂
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And fun!
Thanks L!
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It’s cool to think of dragon graveyard tourist attraction. It’s cool to think of a dragon graveyard. I don’t want to rule the world, but I want one.
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A pet dragon? I think they would be popular.
Thanks N!
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i think guides are trained to spark the imagination if for nothing else. otherwise, they won’t be paid. 🙂
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That is true. Cater to the public.
Thanks P!
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When you little hamlet survives on tourism, each little bit counts.
Fun take, Tannille.
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Thanks D!
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I want to visit this town now 🙂
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Me too!
Thanks A
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Some things are best left undisturbed. I can imagine why the myths bring the visitors, though. King Arthur’s supposed castle (Tintagel) is just round the corner from me and it’s always full of visitors 🙂
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As an out sider point of view I’m in awe. I remember travelling the UK and being laughed at. The oldest building I had seen before was maybe 200 years old. The really old buildings I was amazed. All good fun 😀.
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A wonderful capture of a tour guide’s world. It must be difficult to conjure the enthusiasm with each new group. Nicely done! =)
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Tips are great.
Thanks B!
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to be honest, earlier, I saw only the train… didn’t even notice the ruins. What a wonderful capture of a tourist trap you’ve set up. 🙂 hehe! Love it!
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The train does seem to dominate, I saw the ruins second looking for another story element to add. 😀
Thanks B!
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I wish I had been on this tour, all the tour guides I encountered were rather dull. Imaginative story!
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The tour guide really makes or breaks a tour.
Thanks F!
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We had the same thought. Something’s still sleeping there.
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Great minds!
Thanks K
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Oh, good. More dragons. Love it.
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Can never have enough dragons.
Thanks Jo!
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People need excitement and novelty in their dull lives. Magic and fairytales provide that. Plus tourists get some income and town a little business. Everyone wins. Nice story.
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They really do, couldn’t agree more.
Thanks A!
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Tourists, magicians and ghosts dragons – wonderfully combined. I love the phrase ‘the wild uncontrollable’. Well told and very evocative.
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It stroked my muse. 😀
Thanks M!
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A good story and well-written, Tannille. Those dragons could be dinosaurs. That would attract a whole different group of tourists. 🙂 — Suzanne
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There’s a thought. Wouldn’t want dinosaurs brought back to life either. Sure they could make money from it…
Thanks S!
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I agree that we should let sleeping dragons sleep!
It is funny indeed the places that become tourist attractions. Anything to make a profit… but we all have to make a living, right?
An imaginative take on the prompt!
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I think human nature creates a morbid fascination. A bit like curiosity killed the cat.
Thanks M!
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Very imaginative.
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TY Lisa!
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