Friday Fictioneers – Memories are Made of This
This week’s offering for Madison Woods Friday Fictioneers challenge can be found below. Feedback and suggestions welcome 🙂
This week’s photo is titled fawcet/tap and is copyright to Roxane Phillips.
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The grass was uncut for weeks at a time; a tap that needed tightening to stop the incessant drip remained untouched; his scent slowly faded from the sheets, the towels and the very air around her.
Each time she paid attention to one or other she was covered by the vast, black, blanket of grief that accompanied the memories which, arriving unbidden, kept her connection to him alive; as once again she saw his face turn towards her, she felt his hand in hers and the softest kiss on earth on her lips.
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The idea behind Friday Fictioneers is that you submit a 100 word flash fiction story associated with the picture challenge added the previous Wednesday. You can read the other submissions this week on Madison’s Blog here: madison-woods.com/index-of-stories/072712-2/. There is also a Facebook Page too specially for Friday Fictioneers and you can find it here: www.facebook.com/FridayFictioneers.
If you’d like to know the rules then this is the page to visit:madison-woods.com/friday-fictioneers; and finally, if you’d like to read my previous attempts you can find them all listed here: womanontheedgeofreality.com/tag/friday-fictioneers/
Thank Rochelle – glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you very much 🙂
Thanks Joanna 🙂
Thank you and thanks for sharing your poem too – it was really touching and I enjoyed it very much. 🙂
Thank you very much Ilyan – you did a great job yourself too 🙂
Thanks Mike 🙂
Thanks for the comment and I’m glad it struck a chord 🙂
Thanks Jess 🙂
Thanks Janet and I’m so pleased you enjoyed it.
Wow, thank you so much for the compliment Doug – I’m really glad you enjoyed it as I know that you don’t hand out comments like that very often 🙂
Thank you so much for the lovely comment and also the compliment, I shall be along shortly to say thank you properly. 🙂
Such a large quantity of romantic grief in a few short sentences.
Also, letting you know that I have nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award, the link is here: http://sphrbn.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/one-lovely-blog-award/
Dear Linda,
This was one of the saddest stories I’ve ever read (and I mean that in a good way:).
You really captured the despair and emptiness of loss. Palpable. Very good job this week.
Aloha,
Doug
http://ironwoodwind.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/waiting-on-a-moment/
Incredibly moving for such few words. I enjoyed this very much. Here’s mine for the week: http://postcardfiction.com/2012/07/27/drained/
What a poignant story. The grief radiates. Excellent job!
http://whimsicalquestsofacuriousmind.blogspot.com/2012/07/friday-fictioneer-72712.html
Great job of conveying the emptiness of loss and how difficult it can be to get going again! I’ve felt that dead feeling before but, thankfully, a long, long time ago.
A poignant story and a clever take on this week’s prompt.
I really enjoyed it. Thanks.
Deeply emotional. Difficult to do in 100 words, but you pulled it off perfectly.
http://ebooksscifi.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/kingdom-come-by-ilyan-kei-lavanway-for-madison-woods-friday-fictioneers-100-word-flash-fiction/
So sad, moving and sweet at the same time. Well done. Mine is here: http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/fridayfictioneers-aqua-madness/
Melancholy and very real – this really resonates with me, as someone I know is moving through early grief. Tough times. Well done!
http://www.lazuli-portals.com/flash-fiction/elixir
That’s a beautiful story that is so true for many people. Thank you for writing it!
Poignant little piece, Linda. You really conveyed the depth of her despondency. Good job.
http://www.rochelle-wisoff.blogspot.com/2012/07/snarl.html
Thank you Sandra, your comment is very much appreciated 🙂
So very moving; and that ‘soft kiss of earth’ was inspired. Lovely.
Thanks Raina – that’s really appreciated 🙂
Hi Linda, this was beautiful, very sweet and emotive and I really like how tightly you have woven it…thanks! 🙂