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Superior Minds – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
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In this week’s photo we’re on a landing looking down a flight of stairs between two brick walls. At the bottom of the steps is a sidewalk, a street and beyond that a parking lot with cars. It’s snowing and between the walls an evergreen Christmas oranamet topped with snow.

Image © Jennifer Pendergast – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Superior Minds

I could feel the cold. I could feel my toes and fingers going numb. And that was all. Something was missing.

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The Hippie Temptation – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
The photo today is of a very colorful three-tiered birthday cake. Lots of swirls, psychedelic flowers, and peace signs. It’s on a turntable. You can see a grocery store in the background and order tickets just behind the cake.

Image © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

The Hippie Temptation

“Happy Birthday, Jane!”
I stare at the cake. A colourful, calorie-rich Hippie cake. Of all the things he could have given me…

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In the Round – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!

Image © Dale Rogerson – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

In the Round

I knit in the round. Fingers flying, needles clicking in a steady, meditative, rhythm, and a little hex added at each new round.

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They – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
The photo appears to be looking up at a cathedral ceiling with inset stained glass windows. Below the windows looks like a walkway with arched openings.

Image © Jennifer Pendergast – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

They

Temples, cathedrals, mosques––humans have built amazing structures. Like this temple here, with its glass dome: they are places to gather and worship the gods.

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Happy New Year – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
This week’s photo is a frozen garden pond. Ice has encrusted dormant plants under a protective mesh covering. There is a stone walk around the pond.

Image © Sandra Crook – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Happy New Year

What’s happy about it? I ask you. We’ve become sheep ruled by morons, but putting that aside, what’s happy about January? Tell me.

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Good Night – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
A photograph of a living room with a slightly blurred background. The focus is on a pair of glasses that lie on a table, there also is a chess piece on the table, and a few other thigns.

Image © Roger Bultot – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Good Night

I put her glasses away. Her vision is blurred, whether she wears them or not.

She hardly notices me, half dreaming her past life, half aware of the present.

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Happy Meal – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!

Image © Sandra Crook – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Happy Meal

“The flowers are so beautiful! Thank you, Darling.”
“Only the best for our 50th, my love.”

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Choices – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
In the photo we see the edge of a swimming pool at sunset. There’s a potted plant on a partial wall to the left. The sky is ablaze over trees and mountains in the distance.

Image © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

Choices

It’s the most romantic scene imaginable. A quiet lake, a beautiful sunset and my gorgeous lover kissing me…
I’m so in love.

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A Tree Nymph’s Song of War and Peace – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
The photo is of a window with an open Venetian blind. Through it we see the front of a yellow house with white trim. Beside the windw is the edge of a Christmas tree with lights.

Image © Yvette Prior – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

A Tree Nymph’s Song of War and Peace

She stares out of the window and thinks of her tree.
She’s lived in it for years; a funny and vibrant young fellow.

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The Ghost in My Eyes – Friday Fictioneers Flash Fiction

by GHLearner

The Friday Fictioneers is a friendly writing challenge hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task of the challenge is to write a microfiction story in 100 words or less for the prompt picture.

All the Fictioneers’ stories will magically appear when you click on the little frog.

Reciprocation is the life of this challenge!

A little blue frog that links to the weekly inlinkz page. © inlinkz.com used with kind permission
Hop to  the InLinkz party!
Against a backdrop of trees or bushes is a row of potted plants, plastic buckets and discarded pans. To the far left is a red easel with a picture on it. The easel is falling over backward.

Image © Dale Rogerson – Used with permission for this Friday Fictioneers challenge only. Any other use of this image requires the owner‘s permission. Thank you for the image!

The Ghost in My Eyes

As we get old, our bodies betray us. Eyesight often deteriorates rapidly.
A few years ago I started to see ghosts.

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