Photo prompt provided by Louise with The Storyteller’s Abode.
Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
1. A prompt photo will be provided each Tuesday to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo prompt with your story.
2. Linking for this challenge begins on Tuesday and runs to the following Monday evening.
3. Please credit photo to photographer.
4. The story word limit is 100 – 150 words (+ – 25 words). Please try to stay within this limit.
She stood tall and straight before the piano, Archibald playing and their daughter, Maureen, turning the pages. She couldn’t count all the times they’d been like this, one happy family, surrounded by things they loved.
Most of all, she loved the picture of the Blue Woman. In her foolish times, she sometimes pretended she was the Blue Woman. Wondered about her life, her home. Her hopes and dreams. Wondered if, somehow, they mirrored her own.
She’d had dreams before marriage. Visions of singing opera on the stage to applauding crowds, flowers falling at her feet. But her father brooked no such nonsense, nor did her husband. She loved Archibald, but something inside her was being crushed by the very reality of her existence.
Something, she could not ignore.
It was late at night when she left, crying for the loss of her daughter, her husband, her family, but something pushed her on. Refused to let her go back.
Stepping into the horse-drawn carriage, hooves clattering stone, she sank back, peering out the curtain as she left her home forever.
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Thank you so much!
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You are welcome!
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She seems to have a bad case of wanderlust! She is following her dreams at the expense of her family. Great story!!
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Thanks. I hope her dreams are worth it. Thanks for the comment.
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I hope it works out for her, she may have a lot of regrets in the future. Dramatic take.
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I expect she will have some, too. Maybe things will work out in the end. Thanks.
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I wonder if that was the right decision. Only time will tell. Excellent.
My tale is called ‘One beautiful day’
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I hope so. It is always best to follow your heart, but it seems harsh when one had to choose between your heart and your family.
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being crushed by the very reality of her existence. – my favourite line – sometimes we look far but the answer is always in us- loved your story!
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Thanks for the kind comments. The answers are always within us.
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You write beautifully, I enjoyed this very much..
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Thank you so much. I’m glad you enjoyed the story.
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A difficult decision to take. Great storytelling!
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Thanks so much!
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Thank you.
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This reads like the beginning of a tragedy – an epic one, but a tragedy nonetheless. Or perhaps not! Maybe one day she’ll look back and be glad she left, or regret it.
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Thanks. I hope things will work out in the future.
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I like the end. She took the call finally, instead of fretting awsy lifelong, and wistfully looking at the picture.
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Yes, if we could all be so brave.
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