Following one of my favorite bloggers, Helena Hann-Basquiat, I ended up at a blog I’d never seen before, and was inspired to contribute to Friday Fictioneers time, hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.
This one involves writing a very short story (100 words) that is based on this picture below. There are many wonderful stories to be found, if you follow the link.
Here it is, exactly one hundred words after the title bits (hyphenated words seem to be counted automatically as one word here):
Help! He’s Covered in Bees!
(As homage to my very favorite Eddie Izzard)
©By Vijaya Sundaram
July 31st, 2013
A man wearing stiletto boots teetered up to where sweet-smelling clover bloomed.
He was the son of Khloris, the Greek goddess of flowers. Briefly, he had flirted with the idea of being a mortal. Now, sickened by a dying earth, he wanted to leave.
He opened his impossibly red-lipped mouth and called up to the Immortals. A buzzing began. On the horizon, a dark cloud appeared.
A madly humming horde of bees converged upon him.
A passerby began to scream in horror, “Help! He’s covered in bees!”
Waving, the stiletto-ed man rose into the air and disappeared into the clouds.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~