PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Bird and Gato made a strange pair. Bird believed that extraterrestrials bestowed humankind with technology; then continued their contact through advising, abducting, and probing us. Gato was raised Christian; he’d been saved at age five and waited patiently for The Return of Jesus. Married twenty-five years, we believed their heated debates helped keep their union vibrant.
While sipping coffee with them at our weekly breakfast at Melba’s, the whole place began to shimmy. A bright, decorated disc materialized above. It looked like a church spaceship.
Bird and Gato looked up, then at each other, and said simultaneously, “I was right!”
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Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the dedicated host of Friday Fictioneers.
Tao Talk 
That is so a major problem with symbolism. Mankind can see different things in the same circumstances, which can so be confusing.
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It does keep things interesting though 🙂
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This was very fun Li.
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🙂 Thank you and glad you enjoyed it, Sadje.
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You’re welcome ☺️
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Haha, I’d love to know which of them was really right – or is it neither of them!?
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🙂 I have a feeling they are going to find out…
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If it looks like a church and moves like a spaceship, I reckon it must be a duck. Fun story Jade, and an intriguing exploration of the way we see what we believe
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Neil, thank you for your wonderful comment.
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Great to be proven correct! Intersting.
I have a sci-fi story too this time.
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Anita, thanks for reading and your comment. Will be checking out your story in a bit…
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“Interesting”
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Haha! I love it!
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🙂 Thanks, Dale!
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🙂 Pleasure.
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Great use of the prompt, which I saw as a dragons eye,
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It is a fascinating image isn’t it. Will be reading your story about the dragon’s eye soon, I know it will be good.
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Exactly what it looks like. (K)
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I know! Can’t wait to read what others wrote about it.
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Funny story, Lisa. That photo almost could be the cover of an ELO album!
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Thank you, Christian, that it could! It’s a neat image.
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A spaceship. Now that’s cool.
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Thanks, Danny!
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So very perceptive. Shortly one of them will find out they weren’t, but hey… that’s for later.
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Thanks, Sandra!
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Dear Lisa,
This made me laugh out loud. Glad I wasn’t sipping my coffee when I read the last line. Brava!
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, so glad it got you laughing 🙂 Thank you.
Shalom,
Lisa
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They say opposites attract. At least it made them both happy! Nice one Lisa.
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Thanks, Keith 🙂
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I love this take on the prompt! I was staring at that for a while, trying to think what it made me think of, I think you may have nailed it. Such lovely incongruity, like this relationship.
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Thanks much, Anne, for reading and your comment.
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Hehe, this made me smile. A church spaceship, what a unique idea.
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Gah, so happy it pleased you. Thanks.
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OMG, Lisa. May the saints preserve us. Nothing like a forever spiritual argument to preserve a marriage. 🙂 Very well done.
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LMAO, Bill. Fiction puts the wand in our hands. Thank you 🙂
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🙂
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Fun story Lisa…I was ready for sometrhing dark just in case lol.
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haha! It’s been awhile since I wrote dark hasn’t it. Maybe I’ll write a dark one just for you.
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I would like that!
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Be on the lookout…
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I sure will!
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25 years of arguing! I love how you built your story around such an imaginative idea. I love the concept of a ‘church spaceship’. Very entertaining.
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Pleased you are pleased. Thank you for your kind feedback, Margaret.
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I found a sense of comedy in this and enjoyed the story. it seems , no matter what you believe you can prove you are right because of that belief. I must admit it is an impressive structure, spaceship or church or what?
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James, so glad you saw the humor in this. You’re absolutely right about belief systems. I think back to that old children’s song, with a refrain of, “the Bible tells me so.” and think about how many have wielded that like a weapon. Yes, it is a lovely “church spaceship.” 🙂
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You’re right – it does look like a spaceship. Great last sentence – you had me grinning. I guess now they’ll boldly go into the starship and kneel in front of the altar.
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LOL! I am guessing you are right! Thank you for the fun comment, Penny.
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Great take on the prompt and I love their names. It all made me smile.
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Jilly thank you very much and glad it made you smile.
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Hee 🙂
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🙂
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Some day, somewhere, we will all know who was right–Zing and Zang, maybe?
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🙂 Maybe that’s who is driving the ship? I hope so. I’m sure they’ll have a lot of fun traveling the galaxy and/or heaven.
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folks believe what they wanted to believe. 🙂
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🙂
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Haha people believe what they want to believe.
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perhaps they are being saved finally
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Yes, we don’t know what’s next…
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They find the Middle ground. Fun story.
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🙂 Thank you, Vartika.
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That was a fun story, but also an excellent statement on how people can interpret facts however best suits them.
My dad used to have a cat named El Gato. Interestingly, my brother had a bird named Mr. Kitty.
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Thank you, Nobbin. I like pet names. Mr. Kitty the Bird especially. How big was Mr. Kitty, btw? (imagining pterodactyl)
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He was a parakeet. Hahaha. He had a few. An actual cat got one of them. It might have been him.
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Oh, the irony.
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Hahaha they are well suited for each other. Clever take on the prompt
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Thank you, Laurie 🙂
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