PHOTO PROMPT © CEAyr
Sun crackled designs on the surface of the water. The first sunny day in a month, they’d sprinted to the beach for the show. Weathercasters could offer no explanation for the dense planetary cloud coverage – or what cleared it.
Laughing and chattering with others who’d gathered waterside, a humming filled the air. Distant at first, it seemed to be coming from under the ripples of the lake. It grew louder, and with it, a vibrating of the sand on the shore.
“What’s that?” someone asked, pointing.
An infinity-shaped object rose and hovered. A flash — all was gone.
[100 words]
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the abiding host of Friday Fictioneers.
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Grrr that gets me so plum crazy when those ignorant rude U.F.O. aliens don’t even have the simple common decency to itroduce themselves and to explain their visit
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lol
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I liked that you saw the picture as patterns of sun on water
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Thanks, Neil.
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Just when they finally had a nice weather day …! 😉 Dang! 😉
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Can you tell I’m getting paranoid and hypervigilant? Last week’s story, now this one…
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I’m thinking, you’re missing two more horsemen and you’ve got yourself an apocalypse … 😉
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❤
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😀
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Eek! Too late to run. Great take on the photo prompt, Jade.
Susan A Eames at
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Thanks, Susan!
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And just like that, all over. Probably the best way for it all to end.
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If it’s gonna end, for sure.
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Time for the MIBs to do their thing!
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Oh wow! Intriguing story Li.
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Thanks much, Sadje.
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You’re welcome 😉
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Can they clear viruses also? If so I wish they would do their thing!
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I think they wiped the slate clean. Speaking of a mindbender, I just finished watching one: Vivarium. Ooh, in my present state of mind not a good choice. It’s why I jumped back on the computer, to clear my head.
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THAT sounds like a movie for me
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Not at all what I was expecting. I thought it was a space movie by the name, but it isn’t, per se. I do love going into movies cold sometimes. I like Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots so I knew it had a fair shot of being good. She is REALLY good in this one.
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As you know I like “out there” movies! Mindbender is a great term
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🙂
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At least we got a few hours of sunshine before kablammie 🙂
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lol yes 🙂
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We too had our first sunny day in a few weeks. But thankfully no alien ship was seen 🙂 Great take, Lisa.
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Awesome, Jolly! Thank you.
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I like that you brought the background pattern into it. Well done.
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Thank you, Sandra 🙂
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Of course this little glimpse needs both a before and after…(k)
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🙂 You never know. There may be a part 2…
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Intriguing and interesting
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Thanks, Jude.
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My pleasure 🌼
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A highly original take. Nice one!
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Thank you, Keith. Can you tell I’ve been watching sci-fi movies? 🙂
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Oh yes!
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Dear Lisa,
Love this. Your descriptions had me in the moment. To me this had Close Encounters written all over it. 😉 Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, very glad you enjoyed the story. Thank you.
Shalom,
Lisa
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Nice little sci-fi wonder there, Jade. Really enjoyed that.
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Happy you enjoyed the sci-fi tale, Bear. Thanks.
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shocking ending. hopefully, it was just a dream or a scene from a movie. 🙂
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We’ll never know….. unless a sequel happens 😉
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Love your take on the prompt Ms. Jadeli. Leaves the suspense rolling. And you too observed the sign of infinity. Good one!
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Thank you much, Girl!
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This reminds me of “2001: A Space Oddysee” with the mysterious monolith (which may just be on my mind from the news lately) and “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.” Even in only 100 words, you have that build-up to the mysterious shock ending. I love good sci-fi. Well done.
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Glad you enjoyed the story. I’ve been watching Colbert on youtube about the monolith. What are your thoughts on it??
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I think the monoliths are cool. They’re a welcome respite from the onslaught of COVID, Trump’s delusions, and the Georgia runoff election. Though, what I’ve read about the debates was entertaining with one sending a robot capable of only three responses to stand in for her and the other not showing up at all. I just read another monolith popped up on the Isle of Wight in England, and the vandalized one in California was replaced. I hope they continue to grow and become a global phenomenon, a sign of positivity for the global community to rally around.
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So… where did they come from and who installed them?? They make me nervous in some ways but encouraged in others.
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All I know is a group of guys took credit for the one in California. I saw a video of a guy inspecting the original in Utah. There didn’t seem to be anything dangerous about it. A group was caught on video dismantling it. They were trying to be cautious about not leaving any trace. I don’t know if they had anything to do with putting it there.
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As long as it’s humans!
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I think if there were any real consideration given to them being extraterrestrial, government agencies would have swarmed on them, classified them, and disavowed any knowledge of their existence. “Those are weather balloons that have crashed due to a conspiracy between China and COVID.”
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What a great build up to the final blow. Wonderful sci-fi!
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🙂 Thanks, Dale!
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This event will stay with them forever. Their friends will think them mad and later become bored with the same old story. Yet, what did they see? It was very real, lucky them to experience a magical moment or was it a space ship leaving for better places?
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James, it can be whatever you wish it to be. Lots of fun ponderings on it.
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I love sci-fi! Maybe the aliens cleared the sky to draw the people to the lake. Very well done, an intriguing story!
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Maybe they did — for good or ill…. Thanks for reading and your comment, Brenda 🙂
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I love the human condition to flock to strangeness as a crowd, like moths to a flame, could have been anything, thank god the UFO’s gone, but will it return?
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Good comment and guesses, Shrawl. We may never know….
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Masterful planning, getting them all to gather in one place so the abduction was quick and easy. I wonder where they all went. . .
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Exactly, Linda! I wonder also…
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Are you saying we need to be worried about sunny days now? That’s 2020 for you. 🙂 Nice story!
-David
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ha ha! yes! 🙂 Thanks!
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Intriguing! They never knew what hit them.
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For sure, Magarisa 😦
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I guess that the dinosaurs never knew either, then the sun shone on clean clear rippling oceans.
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Well stated, Michael.
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Great story. Love the first line.
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Thank you, J.A.
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Let’s hope they were transported somewhere else and not obliterated. Very sci-fi 🙂
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Many thanks, Magarisa.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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I felt hooked by the story, the people had their brief moment in the sun. You left us to wonder what and why. Nicely done.
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Many thanks, Woman.
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Aha hidden beneath water. Very clever aliens. I like the visuals in this.
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Thanks, Laurie!
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So much for that lovely day!
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