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!