Feb 10, 2016 Friday Fictioneers
PHOTO PROMPT © The Reclining Gentleman
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Fanciful Fiction
Hello, Goodbye! Or, Pride Comes Before a Plucking
©February 10th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
The tulip, emerging from the ground, encountered a tall daffodil.
“Hello?” she said, nervously.
The daffodil looked around, well aware of his flamboyant good looks, and spoke in a slow, languid drawl, “Who addresses me?”
He couldn’t care less who it was; he stood leaf and stem over the rest of the little bulbs around him.
The tulip stuttered, “It-it is I, Ms. Tulip Red-Cheeks.”
The daffodil looked her over. Hmmm … not bad looking for such a little bulblet, he thought.
Those were his last thoughts.
Within minutes, he was in a vase inside a house.
“Goodbye!” whispered the tulip.
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My second story on the same prompt. (I want to see if I can do it from time to time!) Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, our Fairy Blog-Mother, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and thanks to The Reclining Gentleman for the lovely photograph-prompt.
Tags: A would-be tulip-and-daffodil love-story, Original 100-word short story based on a photo-prompt