Sep 2, 2015 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Word Count: 100 words
Glimpse
©September 2nd, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
All of life was mirrored in those bay windows. The sky went about its business, pink and gold, to blue, sometimes storm-gray, back to pink and gold, to deep blue to black, back to pink and gold. Clouds played out their drama occasionally. Stars blinked in and out of existence.
Another window saw itself reflected in those windows.
Their owners glimpsed each other.
All the desire in the world converged at the intersection of their glance. A universe of possibility unfolded before them. They glimpsed happiness, mad ecstasy, union.
Then, they went back to their wives.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (our Fairy Blog-Mother) for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and for the photo-prompt!
Tags: #Romance, 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, forbidden love, realistic fiction
Sep 2, 2015 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Word Count: 100 words exactly (text)
Breaking Free
©September 1st, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
With a blend of euphoria, weariness, and anger, she shut her classroom door for the last time.
She’d spent years teaching, engaging and inspiring. Many students had matched it with hard work, creativity, brilliance. She tried to obliterate memories of tears she’d shed in quiet, to forget how some colleagues had susurrated behind her back, and to erase the sense that no matter what she did, she would never belong.
As she walked out, the lockers turned blank faces towards her. No one saw her jubilantly made rude hand-gesture.
Emerging into the bright July sunlight, she laughed.
She was free!
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Thanks, as always, to Rochelle WIsoff-Fields (whom I have nicknamed our Fairy Blog-Mother) for hosting Friday Fictioneers, a community of writers from around the world who await the photo-prompts she puts up on Wednesdays, and respond with brilliant stories. Thanks to Claire Fuller for this thought-provoking photograph prompt!
Rochelle, I made it! I was away this past week, and finally got to this past week’s prompt tonight. Now, tomorrow, we’ll have the new one! Can’t wait!