Friday Fictioneers is sponsored by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The idea is to write a 100 word story with a beginning, middle and end based on the photo prompt.
Photo copyright: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Blaze of Glory
(100 words)
Instinctively she gripped the door frame.
One lamp crashed to the floor and exploded into a fiery ball. The other fell onto its side, igniting itself and the paper towel.
Everything continued to violently shake. The lamp shifted, allowing the agitated spice cart to emerge from behind the flames and launch itself off of the table, adding to her sensation of featuring in a Hollywood blockbuster.
California was about the furthest place she could have moved them away from her mother-in-law. After she survived this quake, she couldn’t wait to tell her about the spectacular death of her tacky gift.
HEY BEERGUT!! 
LMAO…..NIce!
Hello Tom!
Thanks. I’m slowly working my way through FF. Look forward to checking yours out.
Great use of the items on the table. Good story.
Don’t tell the mother-in-law, she’ll just buy them another one!!!
Funny story 😀
So true! I hope she rethinks her plans!
Lol!
Loved this..
One question:
“California was about the furthest place she could have moved them away from her mother-in-law”
What’s them?
Thanks, Parul. I was hoping mentioning the mother in law would clarify that she had moved with at the very least, a husband. Does that make more sense now?
Yes it does.. I should have guessed as much.. Silly me! Thanks for explaining
Thanks for being interested enough to ask.
Thanks for being interested enough to ask.
Ha – made me chuckle!!
Perfect!
Haha. Great depiction of the quake and getting back at the mother-in-law. Loved it.
Thanks, Beth.
Great again! I love it when you do this – you’re so good with 100 neat words packed in and shook about. Great.
You help keep me inspired! Thank you.
Oh and don’t we all possess the tacky gift 🙂 Nice.
Don’t we all!
I always think it is much harder to write with the least amount of words. You are clearly talented! Love it!
Shirley,
Great to hear from you again. Thank you so much for your compliment. I’ll be getting around to visiting as soon as I catch my breath.
I think she will be thankful for the quake ! Nicely done
Ironically it’s her attention focused on the tacky gift that may just get her through. Thanks, Shreyank.
I like that she’s more worried about the tacky gift and the mother-in-law than the earthquake and the flames – shows that the mother-in-law still rules her head, despite the physical distance. Great to get all that story and characterisation in, in such a short pied.
Claire
Thanks, Claire. The mother-in-law is indeed in her head.
Ha tacky gifts should always be moved to earth-quake areas
A fantastic last line… and I’m smiling at the image of a fiery grocery cart spice holder launching off the table!
Great! I was smiling when I wrote it.
I enjoyed the launching grocery cart as well but was expecting a fiery ending with both lamps breaking and one igniting. Glad the only fiery ending was to the tacky gifts.
I’m doing what you are and slowly working my way through all the stories. It’s worth it, but sometimes I feel as though I’m never going to make it!
Happy Easter,
janet
I’m not getting very far on my reading. Will be well into next week before I get through many. Lost my laptop last week so it’s hindered my ability to roam wp freely!
A silver lining then… Nice one.
Dear Denmother,
As you can see, I’m working my way through stories while planning the next prompt.
This woman really detests her mother in law, doesn’t she? My little grocery cart’s getting lots of fanfare this week. ;). Nice one.
shalom,
Rochelle
I enjoyed the build-up very much, and then………what a great ending for a tacky gift! I usually lose them after cleaning out the basement and/or closet, but this is a much more exciting way to go!