Apr 2, 2016 Friday Fictioneers, Original Short Story

Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly
Genre:  Mythological fiction

Resurgam, OR, Babylon Revisited
©April 2nd, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

“This one’s mine,” said Tammuz.

“You can’t take over this one, Tums,” said Ishtar.  “You’re too gloomy.  That city is MINE.   I’ll call it the City of Love.”

Marduk, on her left, laughed at her with his sky-blue eyes, and spoke in many tongues:

“You may be beautiful and powerful, darling Ishtar, but that city was ALWAYS mine.  See that shadow tower rising up?  That was built for me in Babylon.  Confusion reigns here; the sky’s the limit.

I, Marduk, the sky-god, rise again – and Babylon rises with me.” 

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Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, whom I have dubbed our Fairy Blog-Mother for her devotion to  Friday Fictioneers, an online pow-wow which she hosts counter-intuitively on Wednesdays, just to befuddle those of us who like time-tables and such.   All of us are addicted to writing flash fiction, and to her kind and generous feedback.  This week’s photo-prompt is by Marie Gail Stratford.  Thank you, Marie!

Tags: #Babylonian gods, #Babylonian mythology, #Urban landscapes, yl