Friday Fictioneers is hosted by the wonderful Rochelle, the undisputed master of what I call Sound Bite Fiction.
She sets the weekly challenge, the standard, and the prompt photo.
The idea, as always, is to write a story of around 100 words based on this picture, below, which this week is supplied by my favourite Fictioneer, the ultra-talented Sandra Crook.
© Sandra Crook
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Drowning
Get him out of here, says the king dude, feed him to the fishes!
They take me out, none too gently, and tie huge boulders to my feet.
Then they heave me into the waves.
Unsurprisingly, I sink fast.
Then, somewhat more surprisingly, I find I can still breathe.
I open my eyes and there’s no water, just a big guy with a beard, looks a bit like Charlton Heston, standing before me with a puzzled look on his face.
Behind him there’s a lot of impatient folk, maybe Israelites, but I’m no expert.
I think, well, that was lucky.
That’s what you call catching a break! Thanks for the giggle. And a Happy New Year to you. I’m assuming that you had a decidedly merry Christmas.
Glad to amuse, mon amie.
Things are always quiet, that’s why I’m here.
A very funny, and novel, take on the prompt. I saw a cartoon the other day of the Israelites walking on dry ground between two walls of water. One man is held fast by a shark’s teeth clamped around his arm. Moses is saying, “I TOLD you not to touch the water!”
Ah, Linda, temptation is always man’s downfall!
Haha! I hope he’s been circumcised or Moses will leave him where he is!
Whoa! Let’s not go there, Penny!!!
Charlton Heston was pretty good at parting the sea, as I recall. Lucky for blokey he was near the sea bed when the waves disappeared!
I think Big C might have had some help!
A very interesting take on the prompt…..
Thanks, Alicia, I think!
Hmm… Is his life flashing before his eyes and his fondest memory is of watching “The Ten Commandments?” Was he magically transported in time? Did he sink to Atlantis? Are his virtual reality glasses malfunctioning?
No to all of the above.
Narrator lived way back when!
Oh! I get it. He was saved from drowning when Charlton Heston parted the sea. The opening had me in a mafia mindset.
If he can breathe underwater, perhaps he can also swim with the boulders. … 🙂 Nicely done!
There is no water, Na’ama, Moses arranged that!
ooooooooooooooooh! Right! I knew I should’a gotten new glasses! 😉
Dear CE,
Charlton Heston? Hm. Hope he can swim with those boulders. Judging from the title I’d say he’s having a last minute vision. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Um, Moses, DeMille’s Ten Commandments, yes?
Yes, of course I did catch that. Who doesn’t think of Heston and Moses at the same time?
Soylent Green…. is people. 😳
He shouldn’t be too self-congratulatory. Pharoah’s chariots are on their way and the waters are going to return. Nice one
Big Chuck will get him out okay!