“We are all heroes of our little worlds”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Author: athling2001
Sunday Photo Fiction 8-16-2017
“Wow! Look at that!” Arny exclaimed, pointing at the painting on the wall.
“A phone booth. English.”
“No, I meant Dr. Who.”
“Who?” Mike asked. “What’s a Doctor have to do with it?”
“Dr. Who!”
“It’s a police call box. 1928ish. Had nothing to do with any Doctor.”
“NO! Dr. Who! The British show!”
“Right. A British Call Box. I don’t think they have them any more. No need really,” Mike shrugged. “Phones and all.”
Arny rolled his eyes. “It’s Tardis, Dr Who’s time machine.”
“The police used them. Not Doctors.”
“For crying out loud!” Arny cried. “Dr. Who. A British TV show! He travels through space and time in a call box named Tardis.”
Mike sighed, shook his head. “You and your funny imagination.”
Arny threw up his hands. “Hopeless!” He walked away.
“Hey,” Mike called, hurrying after him. “Speaking of TV shows….. did you hear about that sci-fi show where some weird Timelord roams the Universe?”
Arny stopped, turned slowly. “No,” he said flatly, “never heard of that one.”
Paused. “Why don’t you tell me about it?”
Quote For The Day 8-16-2017
“The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers 8-15-2017
This week’s photo prompt is provided by artycaptures.wordpress.com.
Guide for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers
1. A prompt photo will be provided each Monday pm to be used as a base to your story. Please include photo prompt with your story.
2. Linking for this challenge begins on Monday pm and runs to the following Monday pm.
3. Please credit photo to photographer.
4. The story word limit is 100 – 150 words (+ – 25 words). Please try to stay within this limit.
5. Please indicate the number of words in your story at the end of your story. (It doesn’t count into the amount of words).
This, he thought, was not going well. Had he not been so polite he would have rolled his eyes. Then again, spacey is as spacey does. What else should he expect?
“So,” she asked, blinding him with her smile. “Should I slip into something more comfortable?”
He looked at the burnt hot chocolate. “Yeah,” he answered, loosening his tie. Changing his reputation was looking better and better. Not that he’d forgo sex with any girl, but deep inside something wanted change.
She slipped into the bedroom. He put the mug into the sink.
How had a burnt cup of chocolate come to represent his life? His sex life at least. He didn’t have a love life. Love was too dangerous.
“Can you open some wine?”
He looked at the door. Heard her in the bathroom, then the start of soft music. Scenes from a hundred times before. Thousands. What had changed?
No, nothing had changed. Not him, not the world. Everything was the same. Would always be the same.
Opening the frig, he pulled out the wine.
(176)
JSW Prompt 8-14-2017
Feel free to join in and respond to the prompt. Please try to keep your response under 300 words. If you reply, I will re-blog your post to my site (sometimes I am slow, but I get there).
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Tuesday’s (Fun) Word of the Week 8-15-2017
al desko
adj. adv
[al des-koh]
Definition
1. Facetious. (of meals or eating) at one’s desk in an office: always snacking al desko; having an al desko lunch.
Examples
They’ll be working through until it’s done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They’re dining al desko.
— Christopher Fowler, The Water Room, 2004
Other reasons people dine ” al desko ” vary …. They need to hightail it out of the office at 5 p.m. sharp to pick up the kids. They want to save money, or they are just too stressed to leave.
Origin
Al desko is patterned after al fresco and was first recorded in the 1980s.
http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/2017/07/21
Quote For The Day 8-15-201
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”
― James Rozoff
