FF – Every Cloud
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Dale Rogerson.
The (completely anonymous) character “Dail” makes a guest appearance!
Copyright Dale Rogerson
Dail shivered and tucked herself deeper into her winter coat. A winter coat, in mid-summer!
The dust cloud, born of an unfortunate nuclear-related mishap, had seen the Earth freeze. At least Canadians are used to the cold, she thought. Many survivors were not so lucky.
Millions in Britain had frozen to death within minutes thanks to their “stiff upper lip, keep on keeping on” attitude, resulting in the general consensus that “it’s mid-summer so I’m wearing a t-shirt”.
Children, ever-resilient, built snowmen.
With survival a priority, the world forgot about Brexit. And golf-playing presidents.
So, every cloud, and all that…
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Big coats and a nice thermos of hot soup.
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Bah. I say. All the glitters is probably radioactive
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Pretty, though.
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Ha ha – every cloud indeed! Great take on the photo prompt.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Utopia. I knew it existed. Nanny was right after all. Nanny was always right!
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All Nannies are always right, it’s a universal law!
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HAHAHA! A nuclear winter does wonders! 😀
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Just what we needed 🙂
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Is a nuclear mishap really the only we can avoid Brexit? Depressingly, you’re probably right! 🙂
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At this point I’m willing to give it a go!
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I’m taking a canoe across to Canada…
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Wrap up warm!
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‘Stiff upper lip’… line made me laugh. Humourous, satirical… and of course hilarious!
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That’s we Brits in a nutshell! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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Could be prophesy, even though I hope not…
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I hope not too 😦
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Any distraction from the distraction in chief over here… And I’m wondering if a nuclear mishap might be worth avoid Brexit… A lighter version of my story this week….
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It might be worth a try, I’m getting pretty fed up with the whole thing…
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A “mild nuclear mishap.” Right. We live in the middle of nuclear generator central here. Where there used to be cotton mills, we now have generators. I try not to think about it. The good news? We would not survive. That’s also the bad news.
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A quick kaboom would be better than a slow organ liquefy I’m sure.
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A gentleman wearing summercoat mid-winter? Please…
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That comment wasn’t meant to be that surreal… I meant the other way around 😀
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Ha! Summer coats in winter and winter coats in summer. It’s a world gone mad 🙂
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Hmmm I wonder how Brighton fared. Not much swimming, but they could have skiing races. 😀
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I’m sure they’re rewriting the advertising content as we speak 🙂
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LOL
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Oh dear, I hope this doesn’t cancel baseball season….
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It’ll be like winter golf. They’ll need to use orange balls…. Baseballs – pay attention. 😉
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They’re already working on skies with little motors so they can shoot round the pitch.
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Ha, ha. I guess having a stiff upper lip doesn’t always come in handy. At least Brits forgot about Brexit so it wasn’t all bad. If anyone could survive a nuclear winter it would be the Canadians. Hilarious, Ali. 😀 — Suzanne
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Sometimes we take it to extremes 🙂 And we’re definitely not used to big weather changes over here.
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Dear Ali,
I would never have connected Dail with our Dale. 😉 Frightening to think of Nuclear winter in mid summer. But it would certainly take everyone’s minds off politics. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
It certainly would divert us from “other matters”. And frightening for sure 😦
I’m glad you liked it!
Ali
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Sadly, I can “see” that one. Good story this week!
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Me too. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Ah, Brexit.
I think I noticed something about that on the news.
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You did? I find it rather under-reported, myself 😉
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Witty and creative as always! Hope it’s not prophetic and not the only answer to our world’s woes.
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Me too – it’s a bit overkill 🙂
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but of course, it’s always about perspective. like they say, if they offer you a lemon, make a lemonade. 🙂
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Got to make the best of it!
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Yep, we Canadians are well-prepared for whatever weather comes our way!
Fun take, as per.
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You seem to have everything from very cold to hot, depending on where you are I guess. I’m glad you liked it!
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I don’t think so. Brexit just will be postponed once more. Not that I want you folks to go, quite the contrary. But the way this is managed is a sad joke. Not so the story though, this is fun.
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I’m interested to see if it’ll happen in my lifetime at this rate… I’m glad you liked it!
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A nuclear accident. So no one pushed the red button, but nuclear explosion happened anyway. How dismal.
Great writing, though 🙂
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There are so many computers and humans who have to be so careful in charge of these things. I’m glad you liked the story 🙂
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This picture of nuclear winter is horrible. God save us from these destructive weapons and consequences thereof.
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It is. There are so many of these weapons around the place.
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That’s a wonderful bit of dark comedy in there. The last unsaid line was a superb touch.
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Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Those stiff upper lips are going to be frozen solid if the Brits don’t put something warmer on.. Nice write!
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Something warmer? In midsummer? Never, I say 🙂
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Well, at least Brexit is not a priority anymore. After half a century 😉
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Being a priority now doesn’t seem to have helped!
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Not at all I guess. Not at all.
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“Millions in Britain had frozen to death within minutes thanks to their “stiff upper lip, keep on keeping on” attitude, resulting in the general consensus that “it’s mid-summer so I’m wearing a t-shirt”.” Why did I quote the entire sentence from your story? Because it’s my favourite line from all of your stories so far. 🙂 (And no, I don’t wish death on anyone in Britain. ;-))
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I quite liked the line too! Most of the rest of the story evolved into something else but I left that line alone 🙂 I’m glad you liked it!
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Good call. ☺
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Every cloud has millions of condensation nuclei, that trap poor defenceless tiny droplets of condensed moisture..that’s what you were going to say wasn’t it? Did I guess right? 😉
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It’s like you’re inside my mind or something… 🙂
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That certainly was an unfortunate mishap. It would probably take something like that to bring the human race to its senses. Great tone in this story – grim humour is a good way to approach such a topic.
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It’s about the only way to approach it. If you didn’t laugh you’d cry 😦
I’m glad you liked it!
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Hilarious!
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Ha… loved this one!
-Rachel
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I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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As an Aussie I have no idea how cold that is! Ber… 😀
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I’ve never seen that much snow either 🙂
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A relatively tolerable nuclear future, despite the death toll. Hope the children’s mittens are thick or this may be a very short story!
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It could definitely have been worse for sure. The “Extra Thick Mitten Store” has been doing a roaring trade 🙂
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