It’s time for Friday Fictioneers again. Many thanks to Rochelle for captaining our ship and keeping us on course, and to Janet Webb for providing the watery theme for the 100 word challenge this week. My story follows the photograph.
A Different Life
Genre: Fiction
Word Count: 100
Noor clawed the baked earth around her failing crop; her baby son slept on her back, too weak to cry. Solomon set off weeks ago to look for work, the water he left them was all gone. It was thirty miles to the aid station, Noor knew if her son was to live, she had to make the journey again.
Nora stood looking out, praying for a break in the weather. It had rained constantly for six days. The garden was a sodden mess, no place for the bouncy castle or Disney Princess tent. She considered cancelling the birthday party.
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Oh, how sad to cancel a birthday party. Six days of rain would probably do it. I imagine it would be quite a soggy mess. Nice story, Dee.
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I think it would!
Thanks for reading
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I think it probably would!
Thanks for reading 🙂
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I’m always reminded of a saying from Sunday School. God causes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.
Is that a blessing or a curse. Because rain can be life to some and hindrance to others.
This was a wonderful exercise in perspective, darling. Glad to have you back.
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Thank you Helena.I’m glad the story worked. I remembered the Sunday School lesson too, wasn’t there also something about the sun rising on the good and the evil alike?
Its good to be back
Take care
Dee
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Hi Dee, this is a beautiful piece the juxaposition of the two contexts gives the piece a great power. Well done.
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Thank you for your kind comments, I’m so pleased the story worked and that you liked it.
Take care
Dee
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Nicely contrasted, Dee. Things look so different from different angles, don’t they?
janet
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Yes they do and it’s good to remember that from time to time. ‘Walk a mile in my shoes…’
Thanks for reading Janet, hope all is well with you and Bill
Dee
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Very effective double perspective Dee. Well done. Hope you are quite recovered now.
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Hi Janet
Thank you, glad you liked it.
I’m feeling much better now, thank you. Just got lots of drops to put in my eyes, but they are much improved already.
Have a good weekend
Dee
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That was a great juxtaposition of realities – I guess you would call it a “reality adjustment”. I confess, that I had to read it twice, not realising at first that there were two different mothers, because my own attention to details sometimes flags. But I got there in the end and enjoyed it very much, although I am worrying about poor Noor. No way she is going to make those 30 miles.
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Hi Laura
Thanks for reading. I have to say I think Noor will make the journey, thank God I don’t have to do so.
Dee
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a powerful contrast. makes people look at things differently 🙂
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Thank you kz, glad you liked the story
Dee
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Dear Dee,
Thank you for writing such a creative take on the prompt. The contrast was perfectly drawn and really set me to thinking. But for the vagaries of chance and circumstance, our situations could easily be reversed. Your story made my heart ache. Well done.
Aloha,
Doug
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Dear Doug
Thank you, your kind comments are much appreciated.
We are all very busy living our lives, I think it’s good to wonder about other lives from time to time.
Take care
Dee
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Dear Dee,
I hope you are seeing more clearly now and all is well with your eyes.
I love the contrast of your two stories. One woman in a life or death situation while the other’s worst nightmare is a rained out birthday party. Lovely writing that gives us pause.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle
Yes, things are much better now and improving every day.
I was aiming to show life from different perspectives, I’m pleased you liked the story.
Take care
Dee
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Such a sad story. Loved the “Water was gone” amid all the rain and flooding.
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Thank you Shirley, your comments are much appreciated
Dee
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Two names, two very different lives… all for the water that some of us waste, and others pray for. Well done. I used the rain/flood metaphorically; this has a real punch.
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Often we never think twice about things we take for granted.
Thanks for reading
🙂
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Exactly. This is something I think a lot about. Nice job putting it out there. 🙂
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Well, you wrote the world in this one. It is how it is, isn’t it? Immense poverty in one place and immense wealth in another. The priorities for each are miles apart. Thoughtful use of the prompt. Ann
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Unfortunately, life is like that. We can only do our best.
Thanks for reading
Dee
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Thank you Ann, glad you liked it 🙂
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It really is all about perspective.
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It certainly is. Thanks for reading Dawn 🙂
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Nice contrasts, Dee.
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Thank you Patti 🙂
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