Feb 17, 2016 Friday Fictioneers

Genre: Timely Tales (Entry 1)
Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly

STOP!
©February17th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

The killer struck, and his knife remained in his victim.  The blood that poured out from the wound stopped flowing.

The teacher’s raised stick stayed raised.  The flinching student cowered.

The soldiers in the field lay sprawled in death.

The lovers kissed, and stayed frozen.

The teenage reader’s hand hovered, poised over her book.

Then, Someone righted the huge hour-glass, and it tilted back into position.

The seconds ticked by … tick, tick, tick.

Time began again.

Looking up, she exclaimed, “Arrgh!  Where did the time go?  I haven’t done my homework!”

And she tossed the book down.

Time flowed on.

 

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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Fairy-Blog Mother extraordinaire, brilliant historical-fiction writer, and gracious, kindly host of Friday Fictioneers for posting our weekly prompts.  Thanks, also, to the redoubtable Sandra Crook, storyteller par excellence, for this intriguing photo-prompt!

Tags: hour-glass story, The passage of time, Time stood still