PHOTO PROMPT
Copyright – Douglas M. MacIlroy
Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and thanks to Douglas M. MacIlroy for this week’s photo prompt. Below is my 100-word story based on the prompt above.
Charon
©June 4th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
Heartbroken, I stumbled down a snow-smothered mountain. Hope and love were dead. It was time to end it.
Below, the turbulent river drew me like a lover. On its desolate shore, a boat waited to take me into a land from which I could never return. The seated boatman’s keen blue gaze sliced the air.
Mutely, I sloped river-wards, impelled by fate, impaled on grief.
Somewhere, above my consciousness, three candles flickered beside a spoon, some furry-slippered feet, a conch-shell, and a jar of peanut butter.
Pausing, I said, “Let me be.”
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Hmm … thought my writer. Should he die?
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