Friday, 25 April 2025

100 Words: Sea Fog

It was twisting, rolling up the beach like a live beast.  At the castle it blew across the lawns and over hedges like a ghost horse.  We came for Easter, spring sunshine, lambs and so on.  Instead we got cold and a creepy fog following us around.

It felt like we were stuck in a Victorian period drama, like a seaside Jack the Ripper was waiting at the end of the pier, hiding within the fog, waiting for victims to enter his trap.  We stayed away from the pier.

All in all you could say it was a disappointing trip.



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



PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot

Friday, 11 April 2025

100 Words: Searching for the Exit

Everything was glass.  Rooms that went on so far that whatever was outside was just a distant blur.  Its existence was only an idea, though, as all I could see was through and that there was no way to leave.

I walked one way, feeling out ahead, met a wall, followed it one direction, then another, and another going on and on and nowhere.  Never travelling far enough to unblur the distant blur.

It was some time before I saw the light.  A flash from an old film.  I screamed as high as I could, shattered everything and woke up.



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



PHOTO PROMPT © Nancy Richy

Friday, 4 April 2025

100 Words: The Chips Cupboard

Our classroom was next to the cafeteria so we were nearly fooled.  For that’s how Miss always passed it off.  “It’s the chips, they’re frying the chips for lunch,” she would say when we asked about the bubbling sounds and smells.

Then one day we saw her.  We held back just enough on the way to lunch, and we looked through the window in the classroom door to see her open a cupboard, remove a fryer basket of chips and pour them onto a plate.  

Away we walked.  Astonished, but not surprised.

That’s when I decided to become a teacher.



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



PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast