Time for this week’s Flash Fiction For Aspiring Writers. It begins anew each Wednesday. 100-150 words more or less to do with the photo below (photo changes each week). I’ll put the link to this week’s stories at the end of this piece. Pass on by – click on the froggy at the end of this story.
Wow! It’s hard to believe that this is week 17:) Thanks to PJ for hosting this for us each week, and all her hard work on our behalf.
After Dark
What was I doing? 50-year-old women don’t just take off and leave everything behind. Family. Friends. Job. Even if they are divorced, 50-year-old women just don’t do that sort of thing. So what was I doing?
We’d met online. You’d told me you were a nuclear physicist. I’d replied you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to have a conversation with me. I’d told you I was a poet.
The first thing I liked about you – when we finally met in real life – was your screen saver program. An aquarium on your desktop! I’d never seen anything like that before. But then, I was using duct tape to keep my modem inside my laptop.
I must have fallen asleep reading my diary. It fell to the floor, and you picked it up.
“Don’t even consider reading that,” I warned.
You handed me the notebook and pointed to your name on the cover. “What do you write about in there?”
I looked at you out the corner of my eye. “Screen savers.”
Ellespeth
This week’s prompt photo is supplied to us by Sonya O. Thank you Sonya!
A cute story. How clever to think of a screen saver when you saw the picture prompt!
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I love the idea of the screen saver and you built a lovely story around it. Very well written, Ellespeth.
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The old After Dark screensaver program was the first thing I thought of when I saw the photograph this week. I wonder if people still use a screensaver? They eventually became bothersome to me – slowed down my computer.
Thanks for dropping by ad reading this piece, Millie.
Ellespeth
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It was a good story, and I enjoyed reading it! 🙂
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Lovely story, Ellespeth. It looks like she made the right decision in leaving everything behind. 🙂
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Thanks, Louise. How could she go wrong? He had a cool screensaver 😛
Ellespeth
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He didn’t read it while you were sleeping? A keeper!
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As far as she knows, he didn’t read it. God help him if he ever does.
I’m headed over to read your piece this evening, Dawn
Ellespeth
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What’s funny is that you really do write about screen savers! Screen savers and freedom! Great story Ellespeth! I really enjoyed reading it.
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Hi PJ! I’m glad you enjoyed this one 🙂 At first, it seemed a little disconnected so I’m glad the edits worked and people are enjoying the story.
We have some really piggy hummingbirds this year sheez – I should put out a table and chairs for them 😛
Ellespeth
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Sounds like you might have some Rufous Hummingbirds. They have the orange napes around their necks and really are pretty but they are feisty and hog the feeders! Also they run the other hummingbirds away because they are very territorial. After a few weeks they will move on.
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lol.. what a dream!
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