Sep 16, 2015 Friday Fictioneers

Photograph ©David Stewart

 

Genre:  Realistic Magical Fiction

Word Count: 100 words of text exactly

Gateway

©September 16th, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

I remember that gate.  I was eight when I last saw it.

Everyone told me not to go near that compound.  Did I listen?

One day, swinging on that gate, loving its rusty groan, I fell into the compound.  A chasm opened.

Now, here I am thirty years later.  I head to where my home used to be.  A curtain flicks aside.  A familiar-looking woman comes out.

“It is I,” I tell her.  “Raman.”

Her eyes fill with tears.  “Where …?”

I remember that gateway to the stars.  I remember when I was thrown off their world.  I am heart-broken, silent.

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Thanks, as always to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, our Fairy Blog-Mother, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, an online writing community that posts 100-word story responses to photo-prompts which are posted every Wednesday (yes), and thanks to David Stewart, for that evocative photo-prompt!