FF – Their Future in Our Hands
Here is my quirky not-really-a-story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo comes from Fictioneers stalwart Sandra Crook.
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Copyright Sandra Crook
Picture the scene. A sleepy English village. Ignore the French flag. The French flag is unimportant. This is a sleepy English village.
Concentrate instead on the loving couple, hand in hand, oblivious to anything but each other.
But what’s this? Suddenly a hundred Friday Fictioneererers Fictioneerrers Fiction Writers appear!
Maybe our couple will wander safely home for tea and crumpets. Maybe they will become innocent bystanders of a drive-by shooting. Or imagine, if you will, hordes of undead boiling forth to feast on their flesh.
We don’t know. We just don’t know.
Their future is in OUR hands.
Don’t cock it up.
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Ooohhh…the possibilities! Wait, I can’t handle the responsibility. Can I give it back to you? 😉
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Ooh, passing the buck, eh? Right, there’s this volcano, see, which suddenly erupts in front of them… 🙂
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Do they survive??
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We don’t know. We just don’t know 🙂
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Alright, fair enough. 😋
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No zombies! I vote for tea and crumpets! 🙂
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AND honey on the crumpets with real butter 🙂
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Mmmm 🙂
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That’s the “yummy” ending 🙂
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Sacre rouge, blanc, et bleu!
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Hey, what did I say about the French flag? 🙂
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Pardon! Pardon, pardon?
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🙂
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Dear Ali,
That’s hilarious and true to form. What? No vampires or talking cars? Love it!
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
I guess this was more of a “meta story” – a story about stories 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Ali
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I like the zombies boiling up to dine on their living flesh. That really works for me.
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Our first vote for the “horror” ending 🙂
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Love it! That’s just too perfect. Given how exhausted I am this eve, if I try I will cock it up for sure. Yawn… or, I could just go inside, ignore the French flag, ignore the snooty French concierge at the front desk, Slide my key card in a door (any door, doesn’t matter) and crash in the nearest bed. Oops, looks like it’s occupied… oh, well, sleeping French never bothered me anyhow.
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An evening of crashing out sounds good! I’m glad you liked my story 🙂
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Ha, ha, I loved this. I had mutants in my story and the building was decaying. I didn’t even notice the French flag. You’re more observant. I always seem to miss some little detail. Good writing, Ali. 😀 — Suzanne
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I started with the “sleepy English village”, suddenly noticed the flag, got a bit miffed and then decided to write it in 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Lovely reflexive story there – including us all in the tale, like puppeteers squabbling over their dolls, yanking them this way and that, inventing ever more lurid tortures … Yep, that’s us! Great tale to raise a smile 🙂
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That poor couple. They don’t know if they’re coming or going, living or dying thanks to us 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Haha! Very good 🙂
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If there were a prize for diversity in submissions, you would win it hands down! Another winner. 🙂
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I like to mix things up a bit 🙂 I’m glad you liked it, and thanks for the photo!
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Or perhaps nothing happens, like in my case. Great take on the prompt! 🙂
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it 🙂 At least if nothing happens nothing bad happens!
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What a medley, just like FF. Very well said
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it! We are a diverse set of writers.
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Now I wish I’d written about zombies! Good one.
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Zombies rock 🙂
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Yes! Huh…maybe my story will be called: Zombie Rock…hmm. 🙂
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when you deal with friday fiction writers, anything can hapapen. 🙂
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And frequently does 🙂
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loved it.
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Thanks 🙂
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Darn it! Why didn’t I think of this? And yes. You, Just. Never. Know. There are all sorts in this motley crew!!!
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We’re quite the bunch. Anything and everything is possible 🙂
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😎😋
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I’m always in awe of people who know how to do more than the smiley, sad and winky faces 🙂 😦 😉
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Only with my cell. I have a bazillion options…😘
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Mine probably does too. But they don’t come with a manual any more. I can find the on/off button, so that’s a start 🙂
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Ha ha! Usually at the left of the space bar is the link to emojis…
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After of year of owning this cell phone I finally found my emoticons last week by accident — and yesterday remembered how I’d found them. 😉 So now I can wink at everyone, too.
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Ha ha ha! Way to go, Christine! 😎😍👍
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I found them 🐵🐒 woohoo 🐶🐺🙂
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Way to go, Ali!!
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Haha, excellent, and so different from everything else I’ve read today.
My FF story, Ma Fantaisie Francais!
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Thanks! It was a bit out of the ordinary. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Those poor people…. sucked into hundreds of fictional alternate universes. I hope they get to remember all of their experiences at the hands of the FF gang…
BTW, as I was reading this, I also noticed that the picture looks like it’s one large fake backdrop for a movie or stage play. Once you see that, you can’t unsee it…
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Remember them all? Why, they would surely go mad!
So it does. Maybe I’ll Photoshop myself in…
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No tea and crumpets, no drive- by’s. Instead we have terrorists and revolutionaries murdering the tourists, each other, or getting themselves shot — all for glory and a just cause. Morbid bunch, eh?
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Yes, I was disappointed by the lack of tea and crumpets 😦 There certainly were a lot of wars and terrorists this week, though!
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Well, I really liked your unusual take on this — very refreshing! Makes me want to write another tale, make them food editors on tour, sampling the local crumpet offerings for their latest cookbook. 🙂
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Ooh yes, a book all about crumpets. “Crumpets of the World” they could call it 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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I liked this take on the prompt, even though it wasn’t a story.
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Oh dear, I completely missed the couple holding hands so feel I’ve failed them already. Loved your clever and imaginative take though!
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They’re quite hard to spot 🙂 I’m glad you liked my story!
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Ha, loved this light piece.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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No all of the sudden it will be raining grand pianos… poor couple
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Anything and everything is on the cards for the poor souls!
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That couple are totally oblivious to the tales we have all weaved them into! I loved this 🙂
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The poor fools. Little do they suspect…
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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I believe the correct collective noun would be Friday Fictioneers. Although in this case, I think you have formed a break-away sub-group, called the Friday MetaFictioneers. I imagine this breakaway group to be a lot like the Muskateers, or the Mouseketeers, if they had gone to uni and done a masters in “Fiction and Post-Modern Literary Theory.”
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The best thing about a meta-story is that I don’t have to think of my own actual story.
That university course sounds interesting. Like you rock up 3pm, talk rubbish for an hour and then repair to the student union for drinks, I mean to discuss the day’s literary theories 🙂
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That exactly describes some of the arts subjects I’ve taken at uni.
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Or maybe…all of the above! lol
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Now that would make for an exciting and somewhat weird story 🙂
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I just saw a fairy tale 😉
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And a very amusing fairy tale it was too 🙂
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Haha nice assessment of the possibilities of the collective FF imagination
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Anything could happen when that prompt hits the airwaves every Wednesday!
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I like how you switched out the French flag by assertion.
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I had the story half-written (set in a sleepy English village) and then noticed the darn French flag. So I found a way to mention it and get rid of it 🙂
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If their future is in my paws, well, they live happily ever after, Draliman 😀 Pawkisses 🙂 ❤
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That sounds nice, I hope their future is in your paws 🙂
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Absolutely hilarious. I love this style of writing.
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And dialogue’s really easy to write, too. I’m glad you liked it!
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