This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – BOARD
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Passport
I am unperturbed by the slow pace of the queue at immigration until, as I approach the official, I open my passport and stop dead.
I stare in disbelief at the face I see, because it’s not mine, very clearly not mine, ethnically different from mine, so whose passport do I have, and how?
I obviously had my own when I boarded in Nice, I think to myself, and then I notice another strange thing, that my name and my date of birth are correct.
‘Passport, sir?’ he says, causing me to look at the outstretched hand, and, totally clueless as to how I can explain this, I hand it over, still searching for words.
I get a long hard look from the man behind the window as the passport is checked and scanned.
Then he smiles and nods ‘Enjoy your stay, sir.’
Trippy, in all the right ways!
Laughing. Is there a wrong way for trippy, Liz?
One hears the legends…
A great tale of how we see ourselves vs. how we are seen!
Perhaps, sir, it is that simple
Most odd indeed, CE – very mysterious!
Thanks, Tom
Perhaps you’ve forgotten what you look like. Have you looked in a mirror lately?
They can’t drag me close to one, Keith!
Oh myyyy, very spooky–I hope this one continues 🙂
I like ‘myyyy’!
😊
This would be most disconcerting, you’ve woven a wonderfully suspenseful tale.
Thank you, Mimi
Excellent Six.
But, is that a stray thread of certainty hanging from your cuff, if we look, perhaps the is a shard (or two) of reality dusting the tops of his shoes.
Like most (imo) truly scary stories, your’s conveys the quiet desperation of a person seeing the edge.
Cheers, Clark, I think sometimes we are closer than we know to the edge
I’ve had a dream like this before. I think I just had a bit of deja vu, except I looked like my mother instead of a stranger 🙂 Great six! I always enjoy the audio also!
Thanks, EM, and I’m glad you enjoy the reading
You’re welcome!
I quite fancy the mystery and intrigue, CE. Nicely done!
Thanks, Denise
I always thought you were a man possessed. 🙂 Great Six.
Or maybe just fu’, as we say in Scotland.
Which is surprisingly like the French ‘fou’!
Intriguing! I hope the picture was flattering at least?
Having coffee in a cafe one day I found a passport in my purse. No clue who put it there, but at least it was clearly another woman’s.
Laughing.
The lady concerns herself with ‘flattering’!
One finally realizes what one looks like. Very nice story.
Interesting take, Frank, thanks for that.
As Robert Burns said ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!’
Oy that would be a real spine tingler~
Definitely confusing, eh Larry!
Now that was a disconcerting tale.
Beautifully written, with not an extra word and yet conveying the full horror.
I still have shivers running up and down my spine!
I like ‘disconcerting’.
Thanks, Jenne
OMG! Face also changed? Big conspiracy.
It’s a mystery, Indira!
That’s strange… but in a good way.
I’ll settle for that, Chris!