Welcome Dear Readers! It’s time once again for Friday Fictioneers where writers from all over the wold gather to play a rousing game of football. Oh wait . . . never mind — I was thinking of the Friday Buccaneers.
Actually Friday Fictioneers (organized by Rochelle Wisoff Fields over at addicted to purple) get together once a week to write a 100-word story prompted by a picture — which this week is provided to us by Erin Leary over at erinlearywrites. Hop over and take a look a look around Erin’s blog. I think you’ll find she’s as good a writer as she is a photographer.
This is such a beautiful picture prompt this week, but, of course, my brain, Peanuts, had to completely ignore all the beautiful scenarios that could have been created and came up with the following instead:
Earth’s Shimmering Orb and Whatnot
Betty watched as earth’s shimmering orb slowly deflated into the milky horizon almost like a slowly deflating tire but not exactly, of course.
Then Betty noticed that the beauty of the scene was causing her eyes to fill up with tears in direct proportion to the speed of the air being released from the tire Betty was imagining — which caused Betty to do two things: 1) Marvel at the perfection of the universe and 2) remind her husband, Bob, to check the air pressure on the tires of her Volvo and maybe check the oil too and whatnot.
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Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
woah woah wait wait wait when did god decide to put the earth in a tire? did i miss one of your bible episodes? :O
LOL Andy! I was going to try to work that into next week’s lesson –about when God gets a car . . . I think I might have read that in the bible somewhere . . .
I think he drives a Volkswagen, a Love Bug at that.
I’m sure he does! With a co exist sticker on the back.
No no…a Plymouth Fury…it says so in Genesis. He drove Adam and Eve from the garden in his Fury.
Betty is a deep thinker…for at least a few minutes anyway. I quite enjoyed her majestic thoughts of earth and whatnot.
You are so right about Betty! Betty is a still water that runs ankle deep or sometimes up to her knees in places and whatnot. 😀
Well, that knocked the wind out of me. I bet poor Bob gets lots of reminders from Betty. At the end of the day, he probably feels pretty deflated himself. I’ve got tears rolling down my checks in direct proportion to Bob’s deflation.
BTW – when I finished my FFF story this week, I realized the characters sound an awful lot like some of yours. I guess you’re starting to rub off on me.
Bob’s deflation is a whole other 100 word story or maybe even a 1000 word story, possibly 800 — the hell with it — let’s just say a 500-word story and call it a day.
I’m buzzing right over to your story to check it out. I love it when I rub off on people (I think a tide stick might get me out, but I’m not sure).
Nice twist she wouldn’t want to get stuck in a beautiful yet secluded place.
Irreverent! I got the word to describe you, and there it is. And also, how come the woman can’t check the tire pressure????
Some people can always see the lighter side of life. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you znjavid! And thanks for dropping by! 🙂
I love a good chuckle in the morning! Terrific little story. You really made me laugh.
Oh I’m so happy to hear that Lindaura! : )
🙂 Different take on the prompt, making a change from the doom and gloom.
I keep thinking I’ll try something serious one of these days, but so far that has yet to happen.
Dear Linda,
Betty’s just a cockeyed pragmatist, isn’t she? You made me chuckle. With most of us being pretty dark this week it’s nice to have a bit of deflating sunshine.
shalom,
Rochelle
A cockeyed pragmatist! Ahahah! I love it Rochelle!