Jun 30, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction, Uncategorized

 

Copyright – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The Winter of Our Ennui
©June 30th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

You and I are like frost on that windowpane.  Somewhere along the way, ennui and coldness set in.  Our children have grown, and have children of their own.

What do you contemplate while you eat your dinner blankly, sitting opposite me?  I know what I think of.  I think of beautiful, vibrant you, filled with a life-force that seemed that it could never be squelched, back when when I wooed you.  I remember your smile scorching me like a bolt of lightning.  I miss it, endlessly, achingly, like summer-shine.

I want to break that window.  I want to end winter.

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Thanks to Fairy Blog-Mother and story-teller extraordinaire, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for that beautiful photo-prompt, and for hosting Friday Fictioneers with such grace and style week after week.

Tags: #FridayFictioneers, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt, #Reference to Shakespeare's line from Richard III