Friday Fictioneers is hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields who provides us with a photo prompt. Each week’s challenge is to write a 100-word story inspired by the photo.
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook
Absolutely Nothing
It was a dark, overcast, drizzly day. The dedication of a new war memorial is, by its nature, a somber event, and the weather was accommodating to the inherent mood. Widows, widowers, friends, and family members of the people reduced to names engraved on the plaques that adorned the stone monument filled the seats provided.
Umbrellas kept heads dry. Handkerchiefs kept faces dry. Politicians spoke of sacrifice, duty, and devotion to one’s country. Survivors spoke of the horrors of war. Family members spoke of loss.
The ceremony ended abruptly when word came down that another war had just broken out.
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Great last line. And, of course, the second world war was, indeed, a continuation of the unfinished business of the first
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Thank you. I started with the last line and went from there.
I think all war is a continuation of humanity’s innate need to destroy.
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I’m not sure humanity has any innate needs (other than food, water, shelter, comfort). We’re a plastic animal, engineered by evolution to learn and form culture rather than preprogrammed. We’re capable of great savagery and of great tenderness depending on the circumstances culture and the surroundings of other cultyres provide us
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Sad story. Your pup looks cute in Christmas gear.
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Thank you. She’s pretty good at looking cute.
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Another time I replace ‘dear’ with “Oh Nobbin’,
That last line is a sucker punch to a well written story. I enjoyed the videos also. Both are two of my favorite artists and songs. I hope your holiday has been a good one. Love your dog pictures.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle.
Mine, too. I love music with soul and substance.
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It does feel like one war begins just as another ends… Well done!
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There’s always somebody fighting somebody. Thank you.
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I like the different viewpoints of those attending. I’m sure they all have different views of the upcoming war, too…
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It’s amazing how many different ways there can be too look at things, and how firmly right and obvious one’s viewpoint can seem.
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How realistic, and intensely sad.
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Thank you. That’s exactly what I was going for.
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It seems like a never ending cycle. With no lessons learned. Well done.
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As long as we can’t learn mistakes, we are destined to repeat them. As cliché as it’s become, it’s true.
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