Time Lord Pranks

telephone box

PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

The Time Lord approached the disguised TARDIS from around the corner and stopped suddenly. He was accustomed to the inexplicable, but this sight rendered his mouth agape.

“I clearly recall you being in pristine condition when I left here to pursue that elusive rogue.”

He looked about, but a crimson telephone box containing multiple trays of flora punctuated by a pigeon cooing on the top layer hadn’t yet attracted attention. This was somewhat peculiar for London.

“Very well, then,” he said reaching into his inner jacket pocket. “One sonic screwdriver to the rescue. Then we’ll deal with this pesky Doctor.”

It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 18 April 2025 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as the prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

I admit that I’m not a Doctor Who fan. I probably saw an episode or two back when Tom Baker was playing the Doctor and wasn’t particularly impressed. However, it’s impossible to avoid references to the show and it’s characters if you’re at all into science fiction.

So, a TARDIS was the first thing I thought about when I saw the telephone box. Since the Doctor is described as a “rogue” Time Lord who stole his TARDIS, that assumes that someone may be after him since he’s a criminal. That’s what I took off with.

To see how others interpreted the prompt, visit inlinkz.

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38 thoughts on “Time Lord Pranks”

  6. I could feel the adventure here and now you have me wondering what this looks like in pristine condition – also – you and another writer have introduced me to TARDIS – so thanks for that — the “Time And Relative Dimension In Space”, which a fictional hybrid of a time machine and spacecraft! very cool

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  16. I became a Dr Who fan with the reboot, but once Steven Moffat took over as show runner my interest waned and I stopped watching. For only watching one or two episodes this is a really good take.

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