My Reflections

Dracula’s Castle

PROMPT September 19th

Look at the photos below. Choose any three of them and write a short story (<500 words) to tie them together. (These are photos from my travels around the world. Read the photo description to learn more about it)

Traveling in a tuk-tuk was fun for 16-year-old James. His family was on vacation and it was a beautiful sunshine-filled day. They had just explored the abandoned building. He thought it would be fun to go ghost hunting there at night, but his parents were not having any part of that.

They began to pull up in front of Dracula's castle. He was in awe of the castle’s design and the decorative bricks. It was nothing like he expected it to be. He thought all of the bricks should have been painted black to give it a creepier look. He could hardly wait to see the inside.

As the tour guide approached, he could barely contain his anticipation. They saw many different rooms of the castle and learned that while Dracula was a fictional character, he was believed to have been based off of a real man.

The real man’s story is a gruesome one. He killed people, but not to obtain mortality. (https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html) James thought to himself how he wanted to be like the fictional Dracula and live forever.

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