FF – Back to Basics
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Al Forbes.
I’m really busy at the moment and thought of re-posting the story I wrote for this picture last year in the hopes that nobody would notice 🙂 but I decided to bung something together after all.
To read the other stories, click on the blue froggy.

Copyright Al Forbes
“Ah, look at those. I remember motoring down the road, wind in my hair…”
“Darling, stop it! You had an Austin Morris! Vintage car, indeed.”
“Wow, Dad. Cars have changed so much! When I grow up I’m gonna invent a flying car!”
“Hundreds have promised the same, son…”
Trevor looked wistfully at his “Amazing Flying Car”, rusting in the field. No way to power it since the Fuel Wars of the mid-twenty-first century. No fuel, no electricity. No civilisation, some would say.
Shaking his head, he nudged Daisy and headed to market. “Giddy-up, girl!”
Life was so much simpler now.
How to come full circle! For someone who just “bunged something together”, you did a great job, Ali!
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Thanks! It was literally a ten minute job (plus a few minutes editing when I got home). I stupidly read the last story I wrote for that photo first and got stuck on that all day.
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I did the same…felt I sort of ended up with a similar theme…
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Nice twist. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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I’ve written before about society switching to an agrarian base in order to restore the biosphere. More than likely though, it will be forced on us in the end just as you’ve predicted.
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It’s a nice idea but I think you’re right, it will be forced on us.
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Very “Planet of the Apes.” 🙂
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Charlton Heston’s gonna ride up any minute 🙂
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I would love to go back to those days, even though I’ve never ridden a horse in my life. The idea of it is great.
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I love the idea of it too, but would probably miss my creature comforts after a while.
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Well at least a few beasts of burden survived. Ali, I don’t like your scary future stories but I suspect you aren’t too far off the mark.
Tracey
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They’ll need the horses in the days to come. Hopefully it will remain fictional, though!
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Great story! I think you can see the future! 🙂
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I hope not! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Full circle indeed. I love vintage cars. They are so classy. In the 50’s we had a 1927 Overland Whippet flatbed.
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Even the name – “1927 Overland Whippet” – sounds very cool 🙂
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I learnt to drive on that when I was eleven 🙂
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Cool 🙂
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A step back in time – which would be a good thing if the reasons weren’t so scary. Nicely done.
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It would be nice if did it by choice rather than this alternative. I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Ned says, nicely done, 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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He he, loved the ‘Fuel Wars’ hope it isn’t prophetic! Great story Alistair 🙂
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I hope not too. But I reckon it’s a possibility…
I’m glad you liked it!
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That would be just our luck, wouldn’t — we finally get the amazing flying cars, and the Fuel Wars hit. Too realistic, now that I think about it! Great futuristic vibe, Ali.
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Yeah. All that tech we’ve been waiting for forever and no way to power it.
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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I loved his positive mental attitude. 🙂
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He’s not one to give up!
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Well, a good time to bring back hot air balloons and dirigibles. We’ll be lucky if you can still manage to grow fodder for horses.
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Lean times ahead for man and beast.
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It might come to that. Is Daisy another import from China? 😉
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It could be that China will end up supplying everything once the rest of the world has gone to pot 🙂
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Next up for Trevor…. inventing the flying horse.
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There’s no keeping a good inventor down. Some sort of hot air balloon cradle system, perhaps…
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Dear Ali,
Loved the wistful feel of the last line. Well constructed story of what the future just might hold.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I hope the future doesn’t go exactly this way, though 🙂
Ali
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I certainly hope some of your stories aren’t inspired by visions of the future. Horses are really high maintenance creatures and I would miss my car!
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Me too. I write far too many dystopian stories. I hope I’m not a “seer” 🙂
I would miss my car too 😦
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Ha! Indeed it IS much simpler now. My dad told me when he was a kid, the local banker had a 1934 Chrysler Air Flow. Only 1000 of them made. When Dad was in his 60’s, he got one! It was really COOL. You show that old stuff to kids today and they think it’s awesome, like the typewriter or a vinyl disc record.
Fun stuff, Ali!
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Those old cars had cool names too – because they weren’t trying to be cool 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Well, and they also had some artistry to them before all these safety regulations came out. Now they look like they’re all stamped out of a mold. No grace at all.
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Yeah. Open top with no head protection in case of a flip? Shocking.
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Haha! Yup. Love me some old vintage machines. 😉
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Now that it looking at the silver lining. Enjoyed your story.
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He’s always looking to the positive. I’m glad you liked it!
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Nice one, Ali! We may very well end up that way…
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It would be a lot less complicated!
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Yes, but we would have to clean up a lot of horsesh… *ahem*
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I always thought that flying cars are everywhere. Some people ignore speed limit and over speed up. If they make flying car, that might reduce accident like collision, etc.
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On the other hand, people might be flying around everywhere willy-nilly constantly having near misses and collisions 😦
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Now how about a flying horse? That would be real progress!
Click to read my story!
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Yeah! It’s the future (and about as likely as a flying car!).
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I hope flying cars are in the future!
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Me too, but we’ve been promised them for years and still nothing. I read recently that now they’re trying personal jetpacks!
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Great stuff, we’ve returned to the horse and cart, can’t come soon enough. (Although I’ll miss not being able to go so far, fly wherever the whim takes to see strange and exotic places. Still sacrifices need to be made and if it means the end of stress, bring it on
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I’m sure technology was supposed to make our lives easier and less stressful…
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Pretty good, for something you ‘bunged out’.
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Thanks! A quick composition during my lunch break 🙂
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Good story, Ali. It doesn’t sound bunged together. I hope things don’t go “full circle”. What a waste. Horses provide good natural fertilizer, though. Good writing. 😀 — Suzanne
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He sounds like he’s quite happy, anyway 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Great twist. I wonder if that day will come
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It wouldn’t surprise me…
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Haha..pretty good my hurried friend!
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Thanks 🙂
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Very nice twist!! Enjoyed reading it☺
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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My pleasure☺
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I’d love life to be simpler and less hi-tech… Mind you, I wouldn’t say ‘no’ to a flying car. Lol A funny and well written story, especially as you wrote it so quickly! The three sections come together so well.
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Simpler sounds nice but I do like my tech 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Hehe, good they still have the ‘daisies’, and with all those flying vehicles I hope they didn’t have to invent a wheel again 😉
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Yes, it’s lucky there is still livestock, horses and so on. I’m sure there was still the odd wheel lying around they could copy 🙂
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