Three Things: The Caption Edition, II

I’ve written before about how much I enjoy captioned illustrations. The illustrations are of course delightful, but what I love most about them are the captions. Those little sentences (or sentence fragments), taken out of context are often entertaining, mysterious, and, for me, always inspiring as writing prompts.

Here are three such captions. Care to write a story or scene around them?

R. Crumb, illustrator. Illustration for Charles Bukowski’s short story, There’s No Business. Published by Black Sparrow Press, 1990.

Caption reads: “Jake fired, and Duncan’s legs went out from under him as if struck by a giant hand.”

Thornton Utz, illustrator. Accompanying the story “Convict’s Secret,” by John and Ward Hawkins. The Saturday Evening Post, August 9, 1958. 

Auber Melville Jackson. Illustration for The Revelations of a Sprite … Edited [or rather, written] and illustrated by A. M. Jackson. Published by T. F. Unwin, London, 1897.