PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Song of the Air
©May 5th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
When things got unbearable, Lali would go up to the attic, escaping the constant carping of her mother. Her cowed father’s silence, the result of his being sniped at daily, didn’t help.
Once alone, Lali would throw open the window and stare out at the birds, who ranged themselves on a wire, and sang to her, inviting her to join them. And she would dream.
Today was different. An ‘F’ in her science exam had gotten her a beating from her mother. She wasn’t allowed to play outside for a month.
The birds seemed to be calling extra-insistently to her.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother Extraordinaire, for hosting Friday Fictioneers with her usual grace and élan , and to Roger Bultot, for that lovely, if gloomy, photograph.