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.
Minute Details
“He was a genius.”
“He doesn’t look like much of a genius.”
“Well, he was.”
“Then, how’d he end up here like this.”
“You know how geniuses are, eccentric, forgetful… Sometimes great minds forget the minute details. He was focused on the bigger picture.”
“It’s a pretty big ‘minute detail.’”
“Can you at least let them clean him off the sidewalk before you criticize?”
“Too soon?”
“Too soon. Can’t we bask in the brilliance of this accomplishment for a little while?”
“That thing up there?”
“Yes, the anti-gravity bicycle. It’s a brilliant invention.”
“Yeah. If only it had a seatbelt.”
NobbinBlog 
Even the very best of inventions can so often have its share of plum insurmountable flaws~
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A seatbelt’s a fixable flaw, just not by the inventor.
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One life is a small price to pay for an anti-gravity bicycle. Particularly if all it needed was a seatbelt
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If it had a seatbelt, it wouldn’t even have cost that one life.
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Anti-gravity bicycle, what a neat invention. There will always be casualties on the way.
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Yeah, I’ll wait until they get all the minute details worked out.
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Great dialogue…
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Thank you.
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ouuuu, I can see the splat… yuck! Great story.
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Yeah, the sidewalk may need a deep cleaning. Thank you.
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Whoops! What a thing to forget. Great take.
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The devil’s in the details, as they say. Thank you.
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I would like an anti gravity cycle, but only if it had a maximum of one inch lift.🙂
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The sky’s the limit… or not.
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Anti-gravity bicycle? Pretty neat! It’s a most imaginative way of accounting for the photo prompt!
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Thank you, Penny. I flipped the bike and imagined people riding up the sides of buildings.
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Hee! One little thing… 🙂
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It seemed small until…
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Great take, well done.
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Thank you.
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A minor design fault it seems! Nice one.
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Those pesky details always seem to come back. Thanks.
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What a loss. Who knows what he’d have invented next. Where can I buy an antigrav bike?
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Next on the agenda was anti-gravity pizza. It floats right up to your mouth.
I’m sure Amazon will have them. I suggest you wait for version 2.0 with the seatbelt.
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Dear Nobbin,
Details. Details. 😉 Fun story…well not so much for the inventor. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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At least his final ride was fun. Well, at least until… Thank you, Rochelle.
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He died doing what he loved. Best way to go out.
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True. He always loved falling from perilous heights.
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