Apr 29, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © Mary Shipman
Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Semi-realistic fantasy-fiction

Genii
©April 29th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

My husband had died.  My son had taken the house.  My relations were scattered. 

All I was left with now was the shop.   No one wanted it.  By law, it was mine (an old will left by my husband before things soured).

I sat there, my heart in pieces, selling a small thing here or there, just enough to buy food, and pay for my heat.

“How much for that lamp?” asked a bell-clear voice.

I looked up.

A beautiful gray-haired woman stood there.  Her eyes were mist-gray.  “I’m Jeanie,” she said, “I need that lamp.”

I fell in love.

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This is my third attempt.  Bear with me, please!  Something about this photograph calls out to me.

Once again, many thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy Blog-Mother of FF, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, where we get to read the work of some of the best story-tellers in the blogging world.  Thanks, too, to Mary Shipman for that lovely photo-prompt!

 

 

Tags: #Genie, #Genii, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt