Friday Fictioneers – Draped in White
Here is my story for this week’s Friday Fictioneers, a 100 word photo prompt hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Dee Lovering.
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Copyright Dee Lovering
The residents of Clusterdale awoke one morning to find their little township draped in a thin layer of white.
Children were ecstatic. What fun they would have! Adults looked out of their windows suspiciously. It was too warm for snow, surely? It was mid-summer! Was this the effect of global warming? A new ice age?
Was the End come at last?
Children laughed, not understanding the worried looks on their parents’ faces.
Across town, fire fighters reeled up their hoses. The massive overnight explosion at “Walker Brothers Icing Sugar Packing and Distribution” would be talked about for years to come.
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Funny twist at the end there. I guess the kids haven’t yet tasted their “snow”.
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They’ll be even more ecstatic when they do!
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Another giggle. Thanks for that! Nice one!
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I’m glad it made you giggle 🙂
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Great humour – made me giggle.
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I laughed out loud!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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You’re welcome, I’m glad it made you laugh 🙂
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The carousel in Central Park????? Sure looks like it to me.
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I read in the comments on someone else’s story that it is indeed the carousel in Central Park. Which is apparently a real place and not just a miss-spelling of the cafe featured in “Friends” 🙂
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To say nothing of the days-long sugar high of eager young clean-up volunteers and resulting chaos in ill-fated Clusterdale!
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I bet they’ve never had so many volunteers to clean up the town 🙂
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First time ever that children were happy to volunteer for a clean-up crew! 🙂
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For sure 🙂
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All the kids on sugar highs….oy vey! 😀
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It’ll be chaos 🙂
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Brilliant!
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Thanks!
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Sweet!
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Ha ha 🙂
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LOL 😀 That’s some sweet snow! I like it!
Leo @ I Rhyme Without Reason
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I’d like it too. So will the local dentists!
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Yummy snow! Must have been fun!
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I bet it was. Until the tummy ache set in!
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funny Ali
I like it
Tracey
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I’m glad you enjoyed it and found it funny 🙂
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Great twist!
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Thanks! I had terrible trouble with the final paragraph. When you know what you want to say but it never sounds quite right.
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Dear Ali,
We did have similar takes with our stories but you turned yours on it’s ear. As a cake decorator who’s daily coating in icing and sugar I find this disturbing as well as amusing. Love it.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I mentioned the same thing on your story! Out of control icing sugar must be disturbing to a cake decorator (especially if this explosion means there will be a shortage!).
Ali
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Now that is brilliant! Snow you can eat!
Rosey Pinkerton’s blog
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The best kind!
Thanks 🙂
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Throw around some pancakes and some maple syrup and you have dessert heaven 😛
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I did hear there’s a build up of explosive gas at “Miller’s Pancakery Inc” just outside of town… 🙂
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Oooh, that sounds very promising 🙂
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Yum 🙂
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Nice twist! Sounds like a dream come true for my sweet tooth.
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Fun for all the family! (Disclaimer: please check your dental insurance before embarking on the eat-athon.)
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Funny story, Ali. You have one great imagination. The ants will lose their minds over that. What a haul! The Walker Brothers must have had major clean-up issues as well as the homeowners. The kids probably ran for their sand pails shovels if they tasted it. Hilarious. 😀 —
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I’m sure by the time Walker Brothers get the clean up crew organised the kids will have nicked it all 🙂
I hope it doesn’t rain 😦
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Oh my, who will catch all those kids when a sugar rush kicks in? Funny story, I enjoyed it.
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No-one will catch them, they’ll be rushing around far too fast!
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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This is priceless! And a day later, they can play with the sticky stuff coating everything. What fun, turning climate change sweet.
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Sticky yummy “snow” ball fights!
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Fun take on this one. Great.
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I’m glad you liked my silly little story 🙂
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You can now make and eat your snowman. Sweet story Ali.
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The fun never stops in Clusterdale!
“Sweet” story hee hee 🙂
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Don’t eat the yellow icing!!!
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Mmm, tangy 🙂
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Ah yes, the snow was too good to be true! Very funny, Ali. We awoke to snow one morning in California. Oh, was it a big deal! Kids loved it, but everything had melted by 10:30 am. Great take.
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We don’t often get much snow in my neck of the woods either. Even in the awful winter a few years ago when the rest of the country had feet of the stuff, we just got a couple of inches which then froze and stayed treacherously frozen for weeks.
I’m glad you liked my story!
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Icing sugar! still laughing.
Good piece.
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Thanks, glad you liked it! We can only hope it doesn’t rain.
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Sweet!
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Hahahaha, Great story!!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Ha ha! I love when I burst out laughing at the end of a short story! Sweet!
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I’m glad the ending made you laugh 🙂 I like to put something funny or unexpected at the end.
“Sweet” hee hee 🙂
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lovely story
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Thanks!
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whoohoo double the joy.
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Sweet edible snow!
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Awesome! Best summer snow day ever.
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For sure!
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Oh, that sounds just like my kitchen when i’ve had a marathon baking session – slightly smaller scale version of Clusterdale, though. I imagine it was the nicest tasting snow those kids had ever tried. A fun story, Ali.
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Your baking gets a bit out of control huh? 🙂
I think the kids were pretty happy!
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As all kids are with lots of goodies to eat. (I can’t blame the mess on them, though, I’m lethal with a packet of icing sugar in my hands!) 🙂
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I’m having visions of you trying to open a stubborn packet of icing sugar and having it explode all over your kitchen 🙂
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That’s happened too many times. The stuff just billows out in clouds. Your great story brought it all back to mind. I love the funny things you write! 😀
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I’m glad you like my stories 🙂
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😀 😀
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Fun story. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I read this and didnt think – sweet snow, but rather “Oh no, get ready for a lot of ants!” I take this as a sure sign I am ageing.
Nice.
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Ooh, I didn’t think of the ants. This could get nasty! I was just thinking of the awful sludge if it rains.
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I was about to write that this reminds me of our kitchen when I saw my Mum (Millie Thom) has written just that above! Very amusing story, Ali. 🙂
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Thanks!
Wait, you’re Millie Thom’s daughter? Wow, a family of writers 🙂 You’re familiar with the kitchen icing sugar explosion scenario, then.
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Very familiar! 🙂
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Very funny. What a novel take on the prompt! Love it.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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Sugary sweet story! At first I was tensed at the thought of snow in mid summer, but the end brought back the smile again.
Keep up the good work 🙂
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There could have been something supernatural going on, or a new ice age a la “Day After Tomorrow”, but no! Just an explosion at the icing sugar factory 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Nice fun twist at the end 🙂
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Thanks, I like my little twists!
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