Apr 28, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © Mary Shipman
Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Realistic fiction

Parallel-Life
©April 28th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

 I’d travelled many miles.  Bandits had taken all I had.  My only child had died when they attacked.  I had to bury him in the forest, my heart a stone.

Grief and hunger assailed me. I hadn’t eaten for five days.  I’d walked for miles.  The berries I’d found had made me sick.

I reached a shop.  Incongruous things hung there. 

“Please,” I croaked, collapsing at the door, “Some food …”

A boy came out of the shadows.  “Come in.  My father went out five days ago, and never returned.  My mother’s in shock.”

He seemed strangely familiar.  I crawled in.

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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother Extraordinaire for hosting Friday Fictioneers, where we get to meet and mingle with some of the finest story-tellers in the blogging world.  Thanks, as well, to Mary Shipman for that photo-prompt!

Tags: #Coincidence?, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt, #RealisticFiction