Dec 9, 2015 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly

Genre:  War/Ghost-Fiction

Doors of Deception

©December 9th, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

Once, there was a house.

Once, there were warm, living people in this house.

There was a house, with warm, living people in it — now there is dry heather.  Wind moans through empty spaces amidst iron scraps.  Doors open into the wild, where the sun (or is it a small bomb, or an army Hummer?) shines, blinding me.

Beside it, offices go up, glass-blindingly oblivious to lives gone.

Wandering here, I wonder, Was it worth it?

A soldier steps out, points his gun at me, says, “Move along, citizen.”

I step through the doors, and vanish.

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Thanks, as always, to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (sorry I’m a whole week late with writing this one, since the new one already came out today!), for hosting Friday Fictioneers, where writers meet and write 100-word short stories based on photo-prompts.  Thanks to Roger Bultot for the evocative photo!

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