Friday 9 August 2024

Microfiction again

 

Microfiction again

The challenge is to write a response or reaction to the prompt in 140 characters or less. Spaces count as characters, too.

Microfiction 7


The girls were rooted to the spot. Light shone behind them. One had grown a cross on her hat. Strange symbols appeared on her sister’s coat.

(140 characters)

 

31 comments:

  1. You do it your way - I’ll do it mine!

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  2. " I say Cynthia, ought one be saying cheese?"
    Alison in Wales x

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  3. "but he told us don't move!"

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  4. The sun blinded their eyes. And skin. Then they were further flashed by the camera man.

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  5. I told you this was not the bus stop, we are going to be late, I got dressed up for this and my shoes are now dirty.

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  6. Oh drat, I thought we were to have white gloves, mine are black, but still jolly.

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    1. Well spotted - and isn't it embarrassing when you haven't got quite the right accessories?

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  7. "Ethel, do you think we shall blend in with these Earthlings?" asked Doris once they had beamed down from the Mothership.

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  8. First thought, my mother and maybe a friend

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  9. You stupid cow for choosing here to stand here. My heels have sunken into the ground and I am going to have to step out of them and pull them out by hand.
    There were a couple of funny contributions.

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  10. Oh, yes, high heels and grass - a bad combination.

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  11. Too funny. Though I do love old pictures. And I love seeing the styles of the times. So feminine. Oh and the gloves. My grandmother always bought me new white gloves when I would go stay with her for a week in the summer.

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    1. You weren't dressed properly unless you wore gloves - I wonder when that rule of etiquette died out.

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  12. I'm not going unless ice cream is involved.

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    1. It will be arranged specially for you ;-)

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  13. I loved reading your and your other commenter's efforts, and Jaycee's is my favourite. I was thinking along the same lines, but Jaycee absolutely nailed it! xxx

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    1. It's fun seeing what other people come up with.

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  14. That was one weird photo. Makes me wonder what its true back story was.

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  15. First day at the Vatican. First Day at Hogwarts. Fall 1939

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  16. I love all the things people have come up with! I read this later in the evening again. Sigh. Nothing creative here lol

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    1. Evenings are not always good for creativity ;-0)

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