Friday Fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here.
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Fences
Fences intrigue me.
Some fences are designed to keep people in, and some are designed to keep people out.
Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on which side of the fence you are.
If you’re trapped on the inside, not good, but if there are bad things outside, very good.
If the bad things are inside, also good, but if you want what’s inside, not so good.
So fences are a lot like people, I think.
Some trap you and won’t let you go.
But others never let you near the good stuff inside them.
as they say in the end, it’s all about perspective.
Dear C.E.
Profound musing. Lovely use of the prompt and a lot of depth in a hundred words.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Wonderful piece – it is interesting how the same boundary can feel like protection to one person and rejection to another🙌
I read this multiple times and appreciate your logic.
What’s bad is when one has built a fence long ago to keep out bad things and doesn’t realize that they are now strong enough to beat the bad things’ asses if they try anything. That fence now serves are a barrier to the rest of what’s out there as well.
My backyard fence is designed to keep my young grandchildren and their dog in and pesky neighbors and others out, so there is a third interpretation which, from my perspective, is generally good and safe.
Very profound. I enjoyed reflecting on this. And nobody died.
a lovely musing