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PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
“Welcome to Nightmare Cafe. A place of fine dining and where your wildest dreams come true. Order the catch of the day or become the catch of the day. A shiver of sharks and pods of killer whales await to play out a drowning or a feasting fantasy.
Perhaps you want something more traditional and Old Bones is your thing, a classic stabbing.
Or the bewitching witch? Safe sense of security by day and suck you dry by night?
To order, just fall asleep. There’s something for everyone.”
A portal to get me out of here? So, embarrassing Dad. Not 5 anymore.
Tannille 
You know, I think that restaurant theme has legs
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One way to shut the kids up 😀
Thanks N!
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Poor Dad, he’s trying! Swimming with a pod of Killer Whales I would enjoy, being eaten by them, not so much! 🙂
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They’ll pay with you first!
Thanks I
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Such are great things made of,… dreams and prompts,
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Here here!
I actually wanted a nightmare cafe where the creatures came to life but I needed way more than 100 words. 😀
Thanks M!
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Dear Tanille,
I guess after she hears her father’s tall tales for the umpteenth time, they’ve lost their magic. The last line adds a whole second chapter to this. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I wanted more words to explore the first part but needed a wrap up. 100 limit can be cruel. 😀
I see her as a teen and Dad won’t let her grow up.
Thanks Rochelle!
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You succeeded, because that’s exactly how I saw it. 😉 You’re welcome.
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That last line is perfect 🙂
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Thanks L!
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That last line changes everything. Nice.
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Not where I wanted to go originally so it was a surprise for me too.
Thanks T!
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That is intriguing, a restaurant where you order through your dreams. That sounds like the beginning of a fascinating story. But that last line made me chuckle. Kids will be kids!
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Fun concept. I would like to explore more.
Thanks J!
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I would definitely want to get out of there!
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That would be the smart option.
Thanks C!
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I would never ever trust my dreams…. they are notoriously deceitful..
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Bastards aren’t they 😀
Thanks B!
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My menu has a blood stain and the waitress has a guilty secret. Just a coffee please.
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And make it strong!
Thanks P
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Yikes, time for me to leave. I have enough nightmares of my own. Cute story.
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Haha the nightmares, they follow…
Thanks J!
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Ha! I wonder if Mom knows the kinds of stories Dad’s been telling the kids at bedtime all of these years? Well done!
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Wonder if the kids sleep at night? Dad might wind up in a nightmare of his own – the dog house haha.
Thanks S!
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I can just see her rolling her eyes (I know I did with the tales my ex used to tell…)
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If I had more words there would have been an eye roll. I saw it too haha.
Thanks D!
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Haha!
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Customers will give their right arm and leg to eat here!
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Haha clever. That should be their catch phrase.
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Yeah, Dad, I’m not a kid anymore 🙂
Sounds like it would be a “fun” restaurant, though”
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Yeah I’m so warped I’d give it a go…
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Wow, this would make a great start for a Halloween tale! Scary plus much more – shivers!” Great fun!
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A creative way to punish children on Halloween perhaps… 😀
Thanks N!
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There is nothing like having a theme to draw in the customers – but then the kids don’t believe it anymore – let them beware.
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Yeah they start believing again when Santa threatens to cut the presents. 😀
Thanks J!
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sounds like a hawker for a bloodcurdling ride. Perhaps Daddy works at a carnival. Love the teen’s voice. She is so “over it.”
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Daddy won’t let his little girl grow up.
Thanks A!
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Took me back to when mine were teens! I lost count of the number of times I heard ‘Oh Dad!
My story is about Masie!
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Haha parents the source of embarrassment!
Thanks K!
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i think it’s about time for dad to come up with something new. 🙂
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I think you’re right but Dad will be Dad.
Thanks P!
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Father seems to love this restaurant. Lot of endangered sea animals on the menu.
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Maybe that’s why the animals want to haunt…
Thanks A!
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Thats what Dad’s are for, ridiculous stories and the never ending repetition of those stories!
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Amen! 😀
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I could listen to my dad’s repeated stories and be entertained every time. They were always just a little different. Well done, Tannille. 🙂 — Suzanne
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And over time the stories got bigger and bigger? 😀
Thanks S
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