Jan 7, 2016 Friday Fictioneers
PHOTO PROMPT © Melanie Greenwood
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Flight Fantasy
In Plane Sight
©Janary 7th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Every day, two hazel-green eyes gazed from the perfectly polished glass windows of the little airport, and lingered longingly at the Cessna on the tarmac.
The being standing there (and whose eyes those were) seemed ancient. No one else noticed him (or her). S/he leaned on a broom. S/he appeared to be a small bronze statue. Any time people refocused, s/he seemed to not be there. People would shrug, look at their mobile phones and hurry on.
And nobody noticed that the Cessna remained parked.
One day, both vanished. Somewhere in space, a Cessna and a statue blossomed into flame.
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With thanks, to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother Extraordinaire, and to Melanie Greenwood for the photo-prompt.
Tags: Cessna, Fantasy, plane story
Oct 1, 2015 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Sci-fi/fantasy
Word Count: 100 words of text exactly
Mouse-Trap
©October 1st, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
The mouse sat innocently upon the desktop.
There was toast with peanut butter, left there by the human who’d been working at her computer. The mouse just wanted a little nibble. There’d be no harm done, would there? After all, he came every night to clean up after the human went to bed.
The computer, still on, glowed warningly at the mouse, whirring a little.
A small zap crackled in the air.
The mouse was gone.
In its place, stood another mouse. And it was NOT innocent. In the carnage that followed, the computer died.
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With thanks to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers diligently and lovingly every week, and inspiring all of us to keep a date with our Muse! Also, thanks to Marie Gail Stafford for her photograph which has drawn so many different reactions and stories from so many of us!
Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, computer mouse story, Fantasy, mouse-traps
Aug 6, 2015 Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Myth-fantasy
Word-Count: 100 words (text)
Laurel and the Night-Terrors
© August 6th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
A throttled moon shone from between strangling branches. A vast, bat-shaped creature flew around and around overhead. Underneath her body, creepers snaked out of the ground and wound themselves lovingly around her arms.
Daphne gazed skywards, desperate, ready to shout out the name of her pursuer, her lust-maddened god.
The moon shone down, and a pale warning beamed her way — Do not fear the night.
Daphne took a deep breath, shuddered once, let her body lie limp, and fell asleep.
At daybreak, a beautiful laurel tree stood quietly in the sunlight, where her night-dream-self had lain.
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Thanks, as always to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for her inspiration, gracious hosting of Friday Fictioneers and loving support to all of us, and to Madison Woods, for her beautiful photograph-prompt.
Tags: 100-word original short story based on a photo prompt, Fantasy, Greek Mythology