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.
Ohio Smith & The Gooey Gull Guano
Ohio Smith tied his rowboat to a rock and swam past the crabby lobsters that pinched him from Ohio to Smith.
The cliff held a cave that was only visible on sunny days from March to June between 13:17 and 13:49.
In the cave, Dr. Smith found the hardened-guano gull idol thought sacred by ancient gull-worshiping people. Grabbing the idol and dodging an onslaught of gulls that would have terrified Hitchcock, he escaped to the ocean where the statue liquified, covering the good doctor in gooey gull guano. He reached the rock as his rowboat floated toward the shore.
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Those gull worshipers deserve as much Gull Guano they want. Not for me, it becomes a game of hit and miss when visiting the sea side. I was not sure If I should laugh, but there is a kind of schadenfreude sense in this.
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I used to live a mile from the ocean. I ran on the beach every day. When I was in school, there were guano bombs everywhere. The gulls didn’t even bother drying them first.
His ineptitude is the joke, so yeah.
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A lovely tribute to Indy
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Thank you. I’m not sure Indy would see it that way, but I’ll take it.
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Ergh! Limited viewing seems appropriate for this idolatry.
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It wouldn’t fit my tastes, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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I take it that Ohio wasn’t quite as astute as his colleague Dr. Jones.
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There’s a reason Dr. Jones stars in movies while Dr. Smith toils on the pages of WordPress.
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lol, I’m sure
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Oh dear, things are not going well for poor Dr Smith. He shouldn’t give up the day job, methinks!
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Where’s the adventure in that?
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Delightful, if stinky, flight of fancy!
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Thank you. Ohio Smith is fun to write.
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Ha not one for Indiana Jones me thinks 🙂
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Naw, he has to save some for the lesser archeologists.
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A timely read for me as just minutes ago some gulls decorated my newly cleaned car with splats of gooey gull guano. I’m buying a white one next time.
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That’s what happens when you don’t worship them or sculpt a idol in their honor. Once you get that white car, they’ll just aim for the windows.
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I smile at this poor poor creature, the gulls will torment him for ever I think
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At least his pain can bring some pleasure.
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A very cute tale…though really surprised the idol hunter didn’t have a waterproof bag!
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Those are the kinds of archeologists about whom they make movies, not blog posts. Thank you.
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I tried to comment on yours, but it keeps asking me for my password, which it accepts, but won’t post anything. 🤷♂️
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No worries!
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Dear Nobbinmaug,
Should have left the statue in the cave. Now he may never get his shit together. Fun story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Not that shit. Maybe he’ll be able to keep the next shit he finds together. Thank you, Rochelle.
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Next time he’ll remember to bring a ziplock plastic bag. An adventure he can reminisce on and share for generations, messy or not. Fun story, Nobbin.
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Or at least one of those doggy doodoo bags. Or he can drink until it’s forgotten forever. Either way. Thank you, Ms. Jade.
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Eeeeewwwww! That’ll teach him not to pilfer a guano statue!
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I’m afraid Dr. Smith might be one of those people who never learns.
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Then he’ll be in for more unpleasant surprises 🙂
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This is his fourth adventure. He’s slowly becoming my Zing & Zang though maybe a little goofier.
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I really need to dust off my little space aliens!
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