Dec 9, 2015 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story

PHOTO PROMPT © Luther Siler

Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly

Genre: Realistic Metaphorical Fiction

Block-Cage

©December 9th, 2015

By Vijaya Sundaram

The prisoner beat his head against the cage, and died …

I stopped typing, and shook my head.   I didn’t like the story.

My eight-year-old came into my room, saw the fallen bird, and said, “Sorry Mom, it fell when I reached up to touch it.  I’ll fix it.”  And she did, after which I hung it from its hook.  For a moment, I looked at it fondly, smiling, then went back to my computer, erased my first line, and began again:

When the prisoner beat his head against the prison-bars, he grew wings …

Time melted away.

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Thanks, as always, to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to Luther Siler for that surreal photograph!

Tags: Bird, Bird-cage, Setting, Writer's Block, Writing