#FlashFiction Challenge from CarrotRanch #Photoprompt
For this week’s Flash Fiction challenge at Charli Mills’ CarrotRanch – In 99 words write a story about this image:
January 23, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a park bench. Use this gif to choose a timeframe and write the story behind that particular scene. Use the time as your title. Go where the prompt leads!
Secrets and Moments
If I could tell you I would. It’s my job here to offer a place to rest your weary selves. All knowing, listening and watching as countless people land here to share a moment.
Broken hearts rested here in refuge with their grief, new beginnings created as some knelt on bended knee declaring their love and proposing to another who has rested upon me.
Shady characters too have used my inconspicuous location for an incognito drop-off. While others come just to relax and take in a beautiful day.
These secrets traded between visitors remain ingrained within my wooden confessional.
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D.G. Kaye is a nonfiction/memoir writer, who writes from her own life experiences and self-medicates with a daily dose of humor.
26 Comments
anita dawes
Good job they can’t spill all their secrets, isn’t it?
dgkaye
Lol true Anita 🙂 x
Diana Peach
I love how the bench collects secrets. Lovely story, Debby, and great take on the prompt.
dgkaye
Thanks Diana. I looked at that bench as ‘the old fly on the wall’ 🙂 xx
Stevie Turner
Nice one, Debby!
dgkaye
Thanks Stevie 🙂 x
Jacqui Murray
I like that–anthropomorphize the bench. That’s good, Deb.
dgkaye
Thanks Jacqui. And I love that word. 🙂
sally cronin
What a lovely response and interpretation Debby.. love the wooden confessional… beautifully done.. ♥
dgkaye
Thanks so much Sal. I just go with first thing that comes to mind. 🙂 <3
Colleen Chesebro
What a great take on the prompt word and image. …A wooden confessional is so apt. I’m behind on the challenges. Yikes. Well done, Sis. <3
dgkaye
Oh thanks bunches Sis <3
Jacquie Biggar
Imagine the stories he could share! Enjoyed this, Debby. Well done!
dgkaye
Thanks Jacquie. A wealth of stories never to be revealed 🙂 x
Olga Núñez Miret
A great image. I love the fact that some benches in the UK have dedications, mostly to people who have passed but loved a particular spot. It always made me stop and wonder about their stories. It’s good to know at least benches still keep our secrets safe! Enjoy the rest of the week, Debby!
dgkaye
So true Olga. The bench will never reveal! 🙂 Happy week to you too Olga <3
Norah Colvin
Good one, Debby. I like your description of the park bench as a wooden confessional. If only it could tell the tales.
dgkaye
Exactly!!!!!!! The old ‘fly on the wall’ 🙂 x
Natalie Ducey
Love this, Debby! You captured so much in 99 words. Awesome! 🙂
dgkaye
Thank you Natalie. 🙂 x
Marje
Awesome really like this Debby. 🙂
dgkaye
Thank you Marje 🙂 x
Charli Mills
Debby, I appreciate how you caught the entirety of the bench and then equated it to a ‘wooden confessional.” Beautiful!
dgkaye
Thanks so much Charli. I began with a story about stories and put them all into the vessel. <3
Ellen Best
A great read Debby, I thoroughly enjoyed coming and resting my weary bones on your park bench.
dgkaye
Thank you Ellen. 🙂