Friday 30 April 2021

100 Words: Returning

After years away we returned.  After decades, in fact, we were finally allowed to go back to where we 


had once lived.  Before.





Everyone had something, at least one thing, they wanted still to be there.  


The thing that they would make a beeline for, that had been dreamed about during the time away 


as we waited for home to be declared safe.




For me it was the view.  To just be able to sit once more with tea, a biscuit, another person and just 


watch and talk and talk and watch as the world drifts on happily.




Pure bliss.



Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt (see here for other stories): 



PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson

Saturday 24 April 2021

100 Words: Where will the cycle of vengeance end?

Finding her stolen eggs at last, the dragon razed the funfair and began the long and arduous task of returning each of her possible future children.


From the ashes came a girl, almost a woman, swearing revenge as she watched the dragon return from the east time and again; and who made a careful count of how long it took.


The girl, now a woman, arrived at the nest, a baby strapped to her, to find a dragon dejected, almost unto death, scores of unhatched eggs around her.

Something in the dragon’s eyes changed her mission.  And she asked, “How?”



Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt (see here for other stories): 



PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart