Every Friday, writers from around the globe join to write tiny tales in response to a photo prompt posted on Rochelle’s blog.
You can find our stories below. The tales written by other writers who’ve taken part this week can be found by clicking the blue frog below.
Our earlier stories can be found here and on our old blog.
Joanna’s story ~
I don’t know what I am. Never a solitary moment to taste the silence, find its flavour.
Wife, mother, daughter, friend, colleague. So many roles, so many faces. A whirlpool of colours, textures, feelings, attitudes. Biting my tongue, hiding my true feelings. Shielding my expressions, yielding to someone else.
Rule-maker, rule-breaker. Responsible and reckless. Which am I? Are they all me?
Where is my own voice? Where is my own soul in all of this noise?
I will write. My words will be alchemy. I will learn what is me, what is in my soul.
I will set myself free.
[100 words]
Ron’s story ~
Deep in the middle of Cornwall, on the edge of the dark, forbidding Bodmin Moor lives an old woman. Her cottage sits, hidden, at the end of a muddy lane that no one but she ever uses. The locals know better than to disturb her.
Day after day she toils at her craft. She wanders her collecting points salvaging all the material she needs for her horrific creations. All night the noises can be heard emanating from the smoking chimney. The hideous clicks and gurglings as tea is consumed and knitting needles make more knitted monsters for her charity stall . . .
[100 words]
Welcome back!! I was wondering just the other day where you were. Loved both the stories, although they are wildly diverse.
janet
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Thanks, Janet!
Yes, we only manage FF about once a month now, what with the novel, Writers’ Circle, the short stories, the monthly newsletter, the Bitesize Tales, the marketing, and the online meetings! LOL!!!
It’s good to be able to have a change and write tiny tales every so often – and YOU always welcome us by being the first to comment – thank you. 🙂
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Not busy or anything are you? 🙂 Well, we’ll take once a month if that’s all we can get.
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LOL! Thank you, Janet 🙂 It’s always good to be in touch with our Fictioneers friends now and then, too! 😉
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I don’t know about her other creations, but this one is more cute than horrific.
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Yes, it made me (Joanna) smile, too! Thanks for stopping and reading. 🙂
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Dear Joanna and Ron,
Both stories were intriguing. I think I related more to the first as writer using words to set herself free.
it’s good to see you here.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle! It’s good to be part of Fictioneers whenever we can. Hopefully see you again in 4-6 weeks lol. 😉 Thanks for reading and commenting.
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You two are amazing!
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Awwww, aren’t you lovely, Sandra!! 🙂 Thank you. I’m pretty sure I’ll be writing a similar comment on yours when I get to it. 😉
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Wow! You guys are awesome. What a prompt! Jo, I love your lyrical approach. Ron… you got me freaked out. Rock on!
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Wooh, Nicky, great to see you here! Glad you enjoyed them; please come again lol. x
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I loved both of these stories. The first will strike a note for anyone who works, has a family and never seems to have enough time for themselves!
The second made me laugh out loud – the idea of a little old lady knitting monsters late into the night 🙂 Incidentally, our resident little old lady (my mother in law) regards Girellie (the cuddly in the picture) as some kind of freak – she can’t stand it, so she’d be no good at knitting monsters!
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I’m so glad you liked them, EL! Your photo was inspirational. I could see so many muddled identities in Girellie 🙂 As for Ron’s story, heaven knows where he gets his ideas. I enjoyed it, too.
Thanks for visiting, and for sharing Girellie with the Fictioneers. 🙂
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I like the inspiration you found from this prompt.
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Thank you, Neen 🙂
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Both stories are interesting, the second with a surprising twist. Thanks!
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Thanks, Perry! Glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
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Great stories! Such different feeling between the two. I love them both.
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Thanks, David!
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I enjoyed both of these. Really like Joanna’s translation of the prompt into, ‘So many roles, so many faces,’ and I’m still laughing a Ron’s knitted monsters. If only there was a photo of those.
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Thank you, Sarah 🙂 I wonder if I can get Ron to take up knitting ….. 😉
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Good luck. I am a knitter and have tried the ‘fishermen used to knit’ line on my husband, but he refuses to learn, despite his love of jumpers.
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Ha, two wonderful offerings.. love those knitted monsters..and Johanna’s story on a more symbolic level. Perfect 🙂
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Thank you very much, Bjorn! So glad you stopped by. 🙂
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