Sunday
Sunday Micro Fiction: 50 Purposeful Words from 5 Random Ones
Sunday’s Micro Challenge from Richard Osgood at Zoetrope Virtual Studio—shawl, mascot, barrel, lithograph, esplanade—led to this fifty-word micro:
AnniversaryThey walked along the esplanade, a gull as mascot, almost perched upon her shawl. She pointed the barrel of her umbrella at a far-off ship. A passerby remarked, “It’s like a lithograph.” They fled the scene, panicked, as if pursued by the imaginary artist seeking to etch them into stone.
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posted on 23 May 2010, 11:07 AM
Very well done, Randall!
posted on 24 May 2010, 6:55 AM
Thanks, Ethel!