Aug 30, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Flash Fiction

Word Count:  100 words
Genre:  Paranormal romance

Ghost-Boat
©August 30th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

Every evening, Saras goes down to the banks of the river flowing near her house. 

A dark boat emerges silently from the gloaming.  Saras steps on board.  Sitting back, she sighs.  The boat moves.  No oars break the water’s surface.

Long ago, she’d loved the boatman.

A bamboo flute breathes desire and despair into the air.  Saras sings with it.  And she waits, calmly, without hope.

Now, Saras hears a question.  Her dead lover’s shimmering form emerges.  Saras says softly, “What took you so long to ask?” then, dissolves into tears.

When the boat returns to shore, it is empty.

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.I was away on vacation this past week.  Catching up is hard to do.  I thought I’d post this before the next FF prompt showed up.
This is a serious addiction.
Thanks to Rochelle, our beloved Fairy Blog-Mother, for hosting Friday Fictioneers.  Her stories always inspire and move me.
Thanks to Georgia Koch for that mysterious photograph!

Tags: #FridayFictioneers, #Love and Death, #Original 100-word Flash Fiction based on a photo-prompt, #Supernatural