Friday Fictioneers

#FF — Stay Away from Green Street

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Stay Away from Green Street In secret sessions held in Mel’s banquet room, Operation Siphon (OS) is born. Road Commission Team pours concrete for “authorized personnel only” parking places on either end of the two-block long hedgerow. Although Green is a two-way street, strange directional signs are placed just north…

#FF — It’s Always Christmas

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox It’s Always Christmas Vacationing in Mexico, I enter an American-style cafe to escape the heat and get a good old-fashioned hamburger. Cool air soothes my sunburn as la antifriona walks me to a cozy nook in the back. I study the décor while waiting for el mesero. Although July, it’s…

#FF — Oops

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Oops Why here? Isn’t her clemency enough? She steps from a gold-plated Hummer, garbed in royal blue Versace and Wang glitter pumps. Two escorts in Armani walk her over. She’s usually wearing a doll grin. Today she looks almost scared; her wrinkles are tight. We’re seated in the tent bistro,…

#FF — The Best Kind of Rap

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The Best Kind of Rap On the couch, snuggled in a throw, sipping a mug of Bailey-splashed hot rooibos tea, I listen to Roy Orbison sing, “Only the Lonely.” I feel abandoned by the present and sense no future. Snowflakes drift by outside, a flurry of past memories reminding me…

#FF — My Mother and I

PHOTO PROMPT © Lori Wilson My Mother and I In 1975, my father spent his junior school year in Cuba* as an Argentinian exchange student. He worked as a dishwasher at Shelly’s, named after the owner’s daughter, my mother. A year later I was born – in the laundry**. Grandpa kept us there until I…

#FF — “Help Me”

PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart “Help Me” “Help me.” The faint muffled plea came from Rea’s left. While perusing the tall concrete fence, iron bars, and barbed wire, a tiny ::plop:: led her eyes to a plastic-wrapped packet resting in a drainage tube near the grass. Rea pretended to lose direction while reading her phone,…

#FF — Between 54 ½ and 71 ½

PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast Between 54 ½ and 71 ½ I tell each adventurer: You won’t find it on any paper map or gps. You can reach it when conditions are just-so. You must dress in a particular way to be acknowledged. You must step in the right place on the right step. You…