AnElephantCant drive a tractor
And he can’t live in an elegant chateau
But he does like to feel
He can pop into la ville
And treat himself to a slice of gateau
Once again it is Friday Fictioneer time.
Where our green-fingered hostess Rochelle sows a new idea each week and cultivates a crop of cleverly created chronicles.
And AnElephant ploughs pointlessly on as usual.
The idea is to write a very short story, circa 100 words, based on this picture prompt (below).
That’s it.
Copyright Sandra Crook
The Field
Oh, Mummy, we have had a wonderful day in the corn field.
We played tag, leap-frog and chase.
We ate that lovely salad with fresh bread for lunch, it was sooo good!
After that we played hide-and-seek, took us ages to find Al and of course we couldn’t find little Anja anywhere!
But she always gets bored and just comes home herself, doesn’t she?
Then that big combination thingy machine came and chomped up the whole field so we had to run away quickly.
And guess what, Mummy, sooo funny, it looked like Anja’s hat in one of the bales!
Sound Bite Fiction 
This has such a lovely innocent voice, and such a cruel twist. Well done.
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AnElephant is delighted that the lovely lady enjoys his little tale.
Thank you.
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mm.. a little bit scary for poor Anja (and just as scary for mummy!) I thought elephants ate current buns not gateau so you must be a post elephant?
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Ah well, it is probably time Anja got chopped into mincemeat.
And if you follow AnElephant’s deranged scribblings you are aware he eats peanuts, olives, croissants and pretty much anything else he can get his trunk on.
Thank you for visiting, dear lady.
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Oh no, poor, sweet Anja 😦 Please tell me that it was just the hat that met the chopper blades 😦
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Nah, not just the hat, all of her!
Good enough for her, really.
AnElephant thinks that a wee while in a combine harvester does her the world of good!
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😦 I don’t know why AnElephant likes to kill me off…..
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Poor girl. I think I have no heart for frightening tales. Why an elephant made it happy.
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Don’t fret, dear lady, it is just a wee story!
Thank you for your visit.
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I love your stories just this time could not digest it actually it will give me nightmares, so you succeded. Please.Please don’t mind.
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Oh,oh,for a while there I was hoping that these lil ones were probably baby field mice but alas!A wicked machine that one,chomping on lil kids ;-)Loved the shocker in here – an elephant,you surely caught me in that web 🙂
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AnElephant is happy that the lovely lady is shocked.
Thank you for spending time and commenting.
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A pleasure 🙂
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Very dark, Elephant, very dark!
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Very happy, dear Jan, very happy!
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OhmyGod, at first I thought it was an innocent story, a sweet narration of a little girl’s day in the fields, playing with her siblings and then the breath just whooshed out of me in the last two lines! Amazing this is 😀
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AnElephant is delighted to whoosh your breath out, sweet lady, and ecstatic to be amazing!
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😀
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I’ve been reading a lot of Friday Fictioneer submissions and, I have to say, I adore a good macabre twist! Yours was a decent shock, and it kind of made me smile. (I feel so twisted for saying that, but it’s true!) Stuff like this tickles my fancy for the dark and not-so-friendly.
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AnElephant says Welcome, with a hint of manic laughter!
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Oh, dear! Sad ending but a great voice. You maintained that childlike wonderment throughout the tale. Nicely handled. This is one of my faves so far this week.
Cheers!
Marie Gail
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Then AnElephant feels great satisfaction, and thanks you mammothly.
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Enjoyed the poem. You should worry about your story – you are starting to sound like me!!!
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AnElephant can only aspire to such heights.
Thank you for visiting.
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🙂
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Sorry darling, but Rochelle got you there. However, this was one of your best poetic intros ever. Loved it. (and the story, of course.)
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AnElephantCant resist a wee rhyme.
And suspects that it was the gateau (chocolate) that Helena really loved.
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How did you know darling?
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Isn’t it great what children see but don’t really see? You captured that nicely.
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Amy is too kind, AnElephant is flattered greatly, thank you.
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Don’t write things like this! Too bloody. In the gut! Nightmare stuff.
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Sorry, Patrick, this is what AnElephant does!
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Dear Elephant,
Poor Anja. A clear case of statutory reap. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Ahem! AnElephant clears his throat and reminds uproarious Rochelle that ANELEPHANT DOES THE FUNNIES HERE!
Thank you for your visit and comment and glad you enjoyed 🙂
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EEEEP! What makes this terrifying is the way you captured the tone of the child. Of course I laughed inside first before I let the panic creep up.
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Glad you got a chuckle out of Anja’s jolly demise!
Thanks, Eena.
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Oh poor Anja! Quite the surprise ending I wasn’t expecting that!
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😦 AnElephant just keeps trying to get rid of me in his posts….I have been nothing but kind to him. *cries*
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Oh jings, here we go now, AnElephant snuffs her a couple of times and she turns on the waterworks!
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Nah, she kinda deserves it, always so smart and pretty and stuff!
Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment.
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Oh, no! I have a bad feeling about this. I hope it’s just her hat, but suspect otherwise. Excellent story, but ewwwww. Please pass me a slice of gateau so I feel better.
janet
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Sadly, AnElephant suspects your bad feeling is quite justified.
Glad you liked tale.
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Mr. AnElephant you do realize that is now two weeks in a row you have written of my demise and Al has always been involved….hmmmm
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LMAO!
Al seems to be quite a rascal – eh? 😉
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I knew I should have never brought AnElephant back to life…..
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Maybe you just hang out with the wrong kind of folk?
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Probably…yes
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AnElephantCant possibly say such a thing about his buddy!
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Haha that ending was superb AnElephant. It was a delight reading this, great job 🙂
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Aw shucks, pretty lady makes AnElephant blush.
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Very good! That last line was a killer!
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As was that big combination thingy machine !
Thank you, Sandra.
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Great intro and story.
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Thank you, AnElephant is pink with delight!
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Whoops. That made me laugh so hard. Poor Anja. As Adam said, she may have lost her hat in the field. I always love it when you include friends in your story, and wondering which one will buy the farm (pun intended)
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Thanks, Al, AnElephant thinks that someone as perfect as Anja deserves to get bumped off occasionally!
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🙂
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Poor, Anja. Of course she could have just lost her hat in the field. Only time will tell I suppose.
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Well she did, but her head was still in it!
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Well that’s unfortunate. Probably got blood on the hat. That’s going to hurt the resale value.
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Nah, you can’t sell one in that size anyway!
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Well-done story but really, really frightening. Our children were young when we lived near a corn field years ago and I worried about it. It’s easy to get lost in one, especially for a young child.
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AnElephant thanks you for your visit and your kind comment.
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Are you picking on my good friend Anja? 😎
DJ
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Yes he is and the second time he has killed me off 😦
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Yes but AnElephant thinks you are so kissable, oops, killable!
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