Feb 17, 2016 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction (Timely Tales 2)
Word Count: 100 words
TILT!
©February 17th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Time was lonely, and a-weary of her job.
The stars spun in their course around the Universe, even as it expanded quietly.
Planets formed, died, and were re-born.
Nebulae cradled baby stars, and supernovae interred them. Interminable darkness seemed to want to attract everything into its vortex.
Far away on a tiny planet, life poked its head out. It was beautiful. Time held her breath, fascinated.
Suddenly, she felt a presence. Turning, she stopped. She had twinned into something unimaginable. Her alter-ego, her brother, Death, stood beside her.
“So sad, isn’t it?” he murmured.
Things got more tilted after that.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother and Magic Presiding Spirit of Friday Fictioneers for hosting FF, and to Sandra Crook, wonderful traveller-writer, for that great photo-prompt!
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Feb 17, 2016 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Timely Tales (Entry 1)
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
STOP!
©February17th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
The killer struck, and his knife remained in his victim. The blood that poured out from the wound stopped flowing.
The teacher’s raised stick stayed raised. The flinching student cowered.
The soldiers in the field lay sprawled in death.
The lovers kissed, and stayed frozen.
The teenage reader’s hand hovered, poised over her book.
Then, Someone righted the huge hour-glass, and it tilted back into position.
The seconds ticked by … tick, tick, tick.
Time began again.
Looking up, she exclaimed, “Arrgh! Where did the time go? I haven’t done my homework!”
And she tossed the book down.
Time flowed on.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy-Blog Mother extraordinaire, brilliant historical-fiction writer, and gracious, kindly host of Friday Fictioneers for posting our weekly prompts. Thanks, also, to the redoubtable Sandra Crook, storyteller par excellence, for this intriguing photo-prompt!
Tags: hour-glass story, The passage of time, Time stood still