New creative writing photo prompt from: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – addicted to purple
Under the Friday Fictioneers -photo prompt flash fiction (in 100 words)
(For photo credit please click Beth Carter’s photo!)
Easy
Searching the streets looking for just the right one, surveying his trophies, musing, “How easy it used to be.” She walked the gutter, her back to him, thumb out. He pulled alongside. Before he could ask she slid over the car door and into the seat in a fluid movement.
Smiling, joking, laughter, he shy, she bold. They drove on for a while, neither cared where they might end up; each knew their destination would be secluded.
Noticing his photographs she quipped, “Old girl friends?”
He replied, “You might say that.”
Smiling, they thought, “This’s gonna’ be easy.”
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NOTE: This was a walk on the wild side for me. I took one look at the photo and there I was.
Are you shocked?
I was!
Life on the Farmlet 
Well done Lynda!
Chantal, I’m really having fun with these! Thank you!
Don’t like the sound of that. Nice job.
Thank you, Silentlyheard! I am really enjoying myself and trying to find my words.
http://www.inlinkz.com/displayurl.php?id=10518344 Be sure to read this one. You guys wrote about the same person.
We were definitely working opposite ends of the same story! I wonder if the mother in Shirley’s story knew about her daughter’s secret life? 😉
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent.
Thank you!
This isn’t going to end well, possibly for both of them.
janet
Wow, Lynda! You did great with this one! I am curious how long it took you to think it through and write it? I think I would have difficulty with these assignments!
Lori, taking a closer look at the photograph began it. It was the photos on the inside of the car door that sparked the idea. I knew what I wanted to happen and wrote it all down in about 15 minutes. Then I went back and adjusted the wording. Juggling the words down to only 100 of them to tell all that I wanted to say took about an hour… Take a word(s) out here, add a word(s) there. I had a lot to convey, and the end result is very terse. I was also suffering from a dangling participle which sent Bob off the deep end! I fixed it and now he’s all better, and so is the wretched sentence! 😉
Bad sentence: She walked the gutter, thumb out, and back to him.
Better sentence: She walked the gutter, her back to him, thumb out.
Fun response to the prompt. Personally, I was quite taken with the grocery-cart seats. I’ve never seen anything like that before!
Linda, apparently, the guy made it from the ground up and it runs! If you click the photograph you will be taken to the original photo and the woman who took it. She won a contest for this photo too! Fun!
Nice complete story, Lynda. A lot said in so few words. I really liked your writing. (you need to add a ” after friends?)
It took me a minute to understand what you were telling me. I thought you were saying to add the letter “a” after friends. It’s past my bedtime. 😛
Got it, fixed it, and thank you, Ted!
Yikes! This is great!
Thanks, Julie. I think it is a bit evil with a little poetic justice on the side… 😈
Ooh, two of a kind. Could be fireworks there… 🙂
Definitely. Thanks, Carolyn!
Positively oozing ‘sinister’. Nice one.
Thank you, Sandra!
Wow, each one with their own little plan. I wonder how this is going to end. 🙂
Badly, I am afraid. Or, to put it another way, poetic justice will be served. 😉
Thanks for visiting me, David!
A creepy story. Really enjoyed this one 🙂
I was going for the creep factor. Glad to know I got it! Thanks, Elappleby!
Very good, sounds like everybody’s havin’ fun.
You could look at it that way. Thanks, Writeondude!
Devilishly good!
Thanks, T!
Really dark.. Easy might be hard in the end. And I’m not shocked in the least.
Hello, Björn! Of course you aren’t. That’s because you don’t know that most of my writing is fantasy and children’s fare! 😉 Thank you for your comments!
I love it when people who deserve each other find each other.
Yes, it is so perfect. Thank you for visiting, Lingeringvisions!
am thinking as lingeringvisions does, these two deserve each other. You did a nice job of pulling together a whole story in these 100 words. I see the effort you took.
Thank you, train-whistle! I love these little short-write exercises. All that effort in a tiny little package! Fun!
A bluebeard kind of a story with an unfazed female?
Petrujviljoen, trust me when I tell you that she is every bit as evil and twisted as he is.
Very nice. I think we did think of the same thing when we saw this pic. Evil minds think alike, huh? Nice job.
Shirley, thank you! 😉
Dear Lynda,
Ooooh. Wonder who’s going to win this little match made somewhat lower than heaven. My bets are on her. Subtle creepiness here. Nice.
Shalom,
Rochelle
It will be a close shave, Rochelle, and you could be right! The only thing for certain is that it will get ugly before it is done.
good one, with an excellent twist.
Thank you, Bill!
Nicely done, original approach but a clever one. I enjoyed reading your story.
Thank you, Penny, I am glad you liked it. I am hoping these little short stories will help me get over my fear of committing to writing longer passages.
reminds me of a short story i wrote. so, well done.
i’m curious about this part:
Bad sentence: She walked the gutter, thumb out, and back to him.
Better sentence: She walked the gutter, her back to him, thumb out.
i would remove “her” from the better sentence to make it even better.
Rich, the change you suggest would make the sentence indicate that she was returning to him. Yes?
With so few words available, I had to be terse. I wanted the reader to see what he saw when he discovered her walking in the gutter. Her back was to him and her thumb was out. Most people hitchhiking are walking backwards and looking hopeful. Not her. Her seemingly laissez-fair attitude was the attraction… “I will be picked up, or I will not… ”
😉
Lynda, I loved this story. What are the chances of two people with the same evil intent meeting? I totally believed it though. They are both trolling the roadways to the same end and eventually I suppose each will die at the hands of a driver/passenger. I wonder who wins this battle?
Hello Denmother, thank you! Who will win this battle? I haven’t decided… yet.
“One night stand, I don’t think she’s coming back for more” – nice song just like your story. 🙂
Good work!
Thank you, Parul!
Very good in a horrible way. Well done for walking on the wild side. I’m just not sure it’s going to be as easy as he thinks.
They are both in for a rude surprise… Having been drawn to each other like magnets, I wonder, how will their evening end? I am not certain. After this I just can’t let my mind wander any further!