Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Oneiric Greek Mythology
Recalled
©July 6th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
She walked down a whitewashed alleyway.
White-gold sunlight shafted down, and cerulean skies shone on azure doors.
Before her was the soft sound of footsteps of someone she couldn’t see. Faint music reached her. She strained to see and listen, but the notes faded away into darkness.
Looking down at herself, she saw nothing.
Panic seized her. Still she followed.
Abruptly, the footsteps ceased. Someone turned. She caught a glimpse of his face, and cried out.
A wild wind rose up out of nowhere, sweeping her away, back to the place whence she’d come.
Eurydice ceased to be.
Orpheus wept.
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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting Friday Fictioneers, with grace, creativity and kindness week after week! Thanks to Jan Marler Morrill for the lovely photograph, which I imagined was either somewhere in Greece, or the Côte D’Azur, neither of which places I’ve visited.