Story Prompt: The Sauna
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
One of the first things that I saw this morning was an advertisement for some spa place with a lady leaned back, hair wrapped in a pristine white towel, fingers gently massaging her temple, and a red flower tucked behind one ear.
Ahhh the image of perfect relaxation. And what do my muses do? They start wondering on what kind of nefarious activity one might discover in a day spa.
Perhaps the best location for something strange to happen would be the sauna. Maybe someone is murdered in the sauna? Perhaps relaxing music has a subliminal message that is played to cause someone to do something? Maybe someone is putting hallucinogenic substances in the water that is sprinkled on the hot rocks? Maybe go way out there, like my muses did, and there is some sort of time travel effect where people that enter the sauna step out day, weeks, maybe years afterward looking the same as when they had entered it? Or step into an alternate universe when they exit the sauna?
