PHOTO PROMPT © Douglas M. MacIlroy
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Bizarro Fiction
Strawberry Jam
©June 9th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
The two children hid, naively certain they were invisible.
Wearing a diving helmet, their father approached them. “I see you,” he boomed.
Something was off.
Jade nudged Jolen. “Doesn’t sound like Dad. Let’s jump out the window.”
Observing his father crawling around burbling, Jolen nodded nervously.
Jade jumped into the strawberry bushes below. Jolen tried to follow her, but a squishy hand closed over his leg.
Jolen bit the hand. It immediately let go. He jumped out.
“Funny, he tasted like jam,” he remarked, as they ran.
Inside, an oozing beast roared as it tried to eat its own head.
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With thanks, as always, to Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, and to the incomparable (and currently absent from FF) Doug McIlroy for that very strange photograph.