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. Click here to play along or just read more stories.
Abandoned
The lights pierced the ceiling, and they were gone. My shock turned to terror when I realized it wasn’t just the band but most of the audience, too.
Someone yelled, “It’s the rapture. Take me, Lord.” She ran outside.
It seemed almost compulsory that the rest of us follow. We made it outside as the light hit her. That’s when we saw the ship.
It was spraying beams of light all over the city. Were they beaming up people like on Star Trek? Or were they death beams? No one wanted to find out. We scattered.
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Loved the rapture freak
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She may have taken comfort in that in her final moments.
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I don’t think I’d want to find out either! Nice atmospheric piece. It will probably unfold just like this.
Talking about scattering, a nice scattering of furbabies this week 🙂
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I think I’d prefer to wait until (if) somebody comes back and find out that way.
It’s chaos around here. I’m hoping it doesn’t last too long.
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Yet another scary interpretation on this seemingly harmless prompt. Well done.
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There’s something ominous about those lights and that empty stage. Thank you.
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Beam me up Scotty… or give me those drugs. I’d take my chances… maybe… they might be ethical creatures,
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Maybe they’re here to save us from our destruction of our environment, or they might need organic creatures for fuel.
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Fuel lmao. Humans might be useful after all. Can they take the politicians first?
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Fat people go first. Fat makes for the best fuels. Just ask whales.
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Poor whales…
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I love the optimism – “the rapture!”
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That is an overly optimistic word for the end of the world.
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Are you trippin’ in your solitary room? 😀 😀 😀 Kidding 🙂 I could picture that. Neat little character study.
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Trippin’? Stir crazy, yes. Drugs, no. Thanks, JJ.
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I was just pulling your leg. I am all for recreational drugs 🙂
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And so it begins…!
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Or ends.
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good one. Star Trek did have an episode where they stunned the entire town from space.
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Oh yeah. Didn’t they move them to a different planet because their planet was dying? They had to do it without their knowledge.
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I’m thinking of the episode with the gangsters/mafia… a culture destroyed by the leaving behind of a copy of the “Godfather” that the locals decided was their “bible” for life…. a very sad episode if you think about the ramifications of such…and an example of why the Prime Directive not to interfere with other cultures was made. There’s other episodes with similar instances that involve Captians who become “roman” style rulers who fight a civil war, and one where a captain becomes like hitler. Very unsettling. Classic, and I mean that in the classiest sense, Classic Science fiction at it’s best… a mirror to our society….
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Dear Nobbin,
So begins the next greatest scifi flick. I’ll reserve my ticket now. 😉 Good job.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle. I may use that comment to help sell the script.
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The Lord moves in mysterious ways – I’m not sure I’d hang around to witness it though!
My story!
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Deities tend to be mercurial. I opt for the abstinence principle.
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Err… I’m not sure I’d follow the rapture girl. If the Lord wants me, he’ll let me know.
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I think everyone’s impulse was just to stay together.
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Yeah, I’d scatter, too … 😉
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Yeah, run first, ask questions later.
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yep.
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Ya gotta love the rapture freaks… they help you know which direction to avoid! Well done!
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Yep. That philosphy keeps me out of churches.
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You and me both!
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Scattering seems the wise choice. Nice creepy tale!
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Yeah. There’s a time to stand around gawking, and there’s a time to flee. Thank you.
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Rapture via spaceship reminds me of the Heaven’s Gate cult from way back when. Did you know their website is still active??
Nice sci-fi take.
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Cults are so funny. Until they’re not, of course. I did not know they had a website much less that it was still active. I had to Google them. It seems like they were something from long ago. 1974-1997. Though there are still two active members.
Thank you.
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As you may have found out from your Google search, the cult (Heaven’s Gate) came to the attention of the public when its members committed mass suicide. The two members who are still alive today volunteered to be left behind in order to continue disseminating information about the cult (although it was no longer accepting new members). They are the ones who are keeping the website running after all these years.
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🤦♂️
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