Jun 9, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Drowning and Flying
©June 9th 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Recently divorced, she lives with her son, and struggles to keep them afloat.

Tonight, she dreams she’s underwater.  There are no mermaids or mermen, no sea creatures, no coral reefs to be discovered – just water everywhere, greenish-blue salt water, and broken plastic.

She dreams she is drowning in it all, and brackish water is entering her lungs.

That’s when she awakes, heart hammering in her ribs, breath coming out in jerks.

She lies awake, troubled, agitated, thinking of the future her son will face.

Finally, she falls asleep, and  dreams of star-ships and warp-drives.

Dreaming, she begins to smile.

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Thanks to Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to Doug McIlroy for the photograph.

Tags: #Diving helmet picture, #FridayFictioneers, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt

Jun 9, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction

PHOTO PROMPT © Douglas M. MacIlroy

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Bizarro Fiction

Strawberry Jam
©June 9th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

The two children hid, naively certain they were invisible.

Wearing a diving helmet, their father approached them.  “I see you,” he boomed. 

Something was off.

Jade nudged Jolen. “Doesn’t sound like Dad.  Let’s jump out the window.”

Observing his father crawling around burbling, Jolen nodded nervously.

Jade jumped into the strawberry bushes below.  Jolen tried to follow her, but a squishy hand closed over his leg. 

Jolen bit the hand.  It immediately let go.  He jumped out.

“Funny, he tasted like jam,” he remarked, as they ran.

Inside, an oozing beast roared as it tried to eat its own head.

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 With thanks, as always, to Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, and to the incomparable (and currently absent from FF) Doug McIlroy for that very strange photograph.

Tags: #Bizarro Fiction, #FridayFictioneers, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt