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