A 92 word bit of fun for the Friday Fictioneers.
PHOTO PROMPT ©Jill Wisoff
The contraption seemed to have stopped, so I picked myself up off the floor and fiddled with the stupid door handle. With a final wrench, the door flew open and I was hit by a deafening cacophony of traffic, car horns blaring and the screaming of a huge crowd. The sky was black, but there was no mistaking them. Wherever I’d landed, however many light years through space I’d travelled, the three demons had followed me. For the first time, I regretted dumping the Doctor in that fun fair on Alpha Centauri.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
A rude awakening! Well done!
Not a scenario I’d want to wake up to! Thanks!
Haha! Lovely, Jane. Made me smile there.
Another childhood nightmare becomes reality 🙂
The Tardis in New York, love it 🙂
I haven’t watched Doctor Who since Tom Baker. I’m stuck in a time warp of Daleks and Cybermen.
Brilliant,Dr Who 💜
I hope the Brigadier is somewhere handy.
Oh!that’s going back in time 💜
I know. I haven’t watched Doctor Who since I was a kid.
Excellent memory then 💜💜
Not really. I haven’t watched any TV since about 1985 so what I did see has left indelible scars 🙂
Lol 💜, you put me to shame 💜
I didn’t have a TV when I was a student and I went to France to work with my first job, couldn’t speak French so there was no great urge to get one there either 🙂
Don’t mess with the Dr. 😉
She’s already wishing she hadn’t 🙂
🙂
I think this must seem like a version of hell if you end up there unaware.
Most things to do with Doctor Who must be pretty hellish of the Doctor isn’t there to deal with the nasties.
I wouldn’t want to wake up to such cacophony even on the same planet 🙂
Me neither. I hope she can get that door open again…
That doctor gets everywhere! Nice one.
Welcome to Keith’s Ramblings!
Thanks Keith 🙂
Dear Jane,
Frightening thing to wake up to. Got the Dr. Who reference although it’s been decades since I watched an episode. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I’m stuck in the Daleks and Tom Baker epoch too. Thanks, Rochelle 🙂
I think I’m the only one on the planet who hasn’t watch Dr. Who. That said, I enjoyed this very much and would hate to open the door to that cacophony myself!
Thanks Dale I haven’t seen Dr Who since the Tardis was revamped and given flashing lights and AN UPSTAIRS!!
And the only reason I know what the Tardis is, is because of this group… Dr. Who and Tardis have shown up a number of times over the years… Maybe one day on Netflix… 😉
I have about 30 years of it to catch up on. I think I’ll pass. I’m willing to bet the early Doctors were the best.
I know that my nieces got into watching it… Have no idea if they started at the beginning or even if there is a newer version? I’m a tad clueless on this one!
I don’t think the BBC kept the early series. It’s all glitz and special effects now.
I can well imagine. Ah well…
🙂
Me neither. But I plan to sometimes soon. I feel I missed something…
You did. But I don’t know how the recent glitzy series compare with the old, tacky BBC studio series.
Same here.
Times Square at night is always a rude awakening! (K)
I didn’t know that was Times Square. I hope the photo doesn’t do it justice, it looks pretty ugly, at night anyway.
It’s just…too too much. Especially at night. Ugly is not the word I’d use, maybe overwhelming.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of it. If this is what it looks like at night, give me the owls and the bats any day.
I have to admit, the crowds there are too much for me. Tourists! and those that feed upon them. Not a good combination.
Tourism is the bane of civilisation.
Should have learned how to fly the Tardis first!
I’m not sure the Doctor ever mastered that one 🙂
Great atmosphere of tension and chaos. Like Dale, I never watched Dr. Who, but your story is so interesting, I really must give it a go now.
See if you can get hold of the early series from the 1970s. I bet they’re better in many ways than the recent ones.
It’s a huge task. I’m looking forward to it. 😀
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Great piece of fun fiction 🙂
Thank you!
What a fun take on Doctor Who! Fancy leaving him behind – although if you were going to do that, a funfair would be the ideal place.
I remember the very first episode…the scenery used to wobble…but they had some subtle thinking. In series 1, the Daleks at first seemed like good guys, and when they referred to mutants living in the wilderness outside their city we all thought “Oo-er! What could be even worse than these creatures?” Then we discovered that the mutants were in fact humanoid, possessing all the attributes of humanity. That was a shift in perspective that has lived with me ever since.
I wish I remember the first series. I have memories in black and white, but we were probably the last family in the western world to get colour—my dad thought it was unnatural 🙂 I’d probably remember the Patrick Troughton episodes if I saw them again, but it’s Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker I remember best.
Don’t ever dump the Doctor. You will be sorry. Good story, Jane.
Thanks Jilly 🙂 Not a good idea, I agree.
The elements are so wonderfully combined.
Thank you, Lisa 🙂
A wonderful bit of sci-fi. Should have kept the Doctor with her for sure! =)
Thanks Brenda 🙂 She maybe had her reasons. I hope they were good ones!
I was pleased to see that my Tardis still works. Yours sincerely the Doctor.
Nothing a bit of poggling with a screwdriver won’t sort out 🙂
Oh oh, what to do now? If they can follow over such a great distance, there seems little hope
There never is with Daleks, if you’ve left the Doctor behind…