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 © Na’ama Yehuda
I Scream
I scream.
“Daddy, can I get an ice cream?”
“May I?”
“May I get an ice cream?”
I gave her $5 and told her to come right back. That was the last time I saw her. I glanced at my phone. Someone screamed. I looked up, and she was gone. All the kids were gone. The truck was gone.
You scream.
I tried to find her. I asked everyone. No one answered. The park was pandemonium. Parents were frantically searching for their kids. Others were clinging to theirs as if they could simply vanish.
We all scream for ice cream.
NobbinBlog 
That was no ordinary ice cream truck! Where have they all be zapped to – and is there room for mine?
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That’s the mystery! I have no idea. The picture reminded me of that jingle my parents used to sing, and I wanted to get everyone screaming. Of course, there’s always room for more. You have to find that truck first, though.
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Dammit. There’s always a caveat…
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Something more sinister than a creepy old man by the sounds of it. Chilling…
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I get it. Chilling because it’s ice cream. I don’t think the parents are chilling.
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Very dark and mysterious. I love your use of the “scream/ice cream” throughout.
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Thank you. That little ditty was my inspiration.
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Brrrrr! Every parent’s worst nightmare!
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Yeah, it seemed like a good way to get everybody screaming. Thank you.
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Chilling…
Great take on the prompt.
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I already used my chilling puns with Iain, so I’ll simply say thank you.
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Interesting structure to the tale.
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Thank you. It was inspired by a jingle, the italic parts, my parents sang when I was a kid.
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Dear Nobbin,
I love your use of the old “I scream, you scream…” it added a creepiness to the story as a whole. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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The jingle was the first thing to come to mind. “Now, what should I write? … Hmmm…” Thank you.
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So, the Pied Piper sells ice cream nowadays!
Here’s mine!
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Would you rather follow a guy with a flute or a truck full of delicious treats?
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Seems I read in the news recently about little kids being lured into an ice cream truck and never seen again. This one gave me the willies.
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That sounds like something horrible that would be in the news. I don’t even have kids, but I can’t imagine how horrific that would be.
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You know, I wasn’t quite comfortable with what I posted here, so I did some googling. What I actually saw was an experiment conducted by some blog guy who wanted to see how hard it might be to lure kids into his ice cream truck. It wasn’t, as I thought I remembered, a kidnapping situation. What he recorded, though, ought to make us all stop and think. Out of ten young kids, he was able to convince nine to enter his truck. Only one little girl refused, saying her mommy told her about stranger danger, and she took of running. The rest of them, all living in the same neighborhood, he escorted to their appalled parents who vowed to do better. When it’s little kids tempted by ice cream, you’d better have told them more than once to NEVER get into a vehicle without mom or dad’s permission.
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That is terrifying.
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Yes. I thought parents of young kids would know better, do better.
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Either alien abduction… or the rapture has occurred. Good one.
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Or the parents are so absorbed in their phones they didn’t notice the ice cream man drive off with their kids. I didn’t really think about the cause. I just knew it wasn’t fitting into my 100 words. Thank you.
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It happens. Word counts are so painful. Great story, really. Leave the mind to play with the ‘why’ and that’s sometimes better 🙂 ❤
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I scream for ice cream, love the manipulation of words.
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I remember that jingle and it added just the right touch to your “chilling” tale!
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It was fun to play with it like that. Thank you.
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We skipped to that ditty, long ago when being a child seemed like an insult. Great write, good work
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Nobody’s skipping to my version. Thank you.
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I don’t expect they will, the playground ditty “you scream i’ll scream we all scream for ice cream” makes your tale even creepier. 😱😨
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