Sep 25, 2015 Friday Fictioneers

PHOTO PROMPT © The Reclining Gentleman

Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Word Count:  100 words of body text exactly

The Dividing Line

©September25th, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

Some people teeter on the brink of madness; others straddle it; still others go right over the edge.

Fourteen-year old Jonah was half-way over that edge, eyes flashing blue fire, the fiery madness of a fanatic who’s found God.

His mother had left home, his father was catatonic, and his sister plied the oldest of trades.

He’d stand every day, arms akimbo, haloed in sunset gold, and laugh.  Someone reported him, but the police weren’t interested — they had other things occupying their attention in Jonah’s drug-addled neighborhood.

Jonah was still laughing that day, when the water arose to meet him.

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Thanks, as always, to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, our brilliant Writer-in-Residence and Fairy Blog-Mother, and also to the mysterious Reclining Gentleman for the evocative photo-prompt.

Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, bridge between sanity and madness, on the brink of madness