As usual, Cee has an interesting Fun Foto Challenge lined up for us – Signs. I have quite an obsession for signs. Let’s begin shall we?
I have to confess the first two sets are forwards but they were too good to pass up 😀
And the award goes to
Off to hunt for my pot of gold 😀
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Written for the Sunday Photo Fiction – a story in 200 words or less. Click here for other stories on this prompt.
Words 198
“Reeta!” Sheila burst inside her house, “did you hear the news?”
“What news?” Reeta asked her easily excitable neighbor.
“Don’t you ever watch TV?”
“Not if I can help it.” Reeta said drily. Besides, who needs a TV when you are here?
“Didn’t you hear the TV vans whooshing past – or the ambulance? I checked the news and sure enough, it’s all over the TV!” Sheila’s eyes glittered with pleasurable glee and something else. “Look at you, sitting here cool as cucumber.”
Reeta made a wry face and got to her feet. “My apologies. Would you like a cup of tea?” She began walking to the kitchen.
Sheila grabbed Reeta by the arm and burst out, “The well-known socialite Mrs Sisodia committed suicide.”
Reeta froze. She paled and her eyes widened.
Sheila watched these developments with ghoulish delight. “Oh! Now I remember, she and your husband were very good friends weren’t they?” Sheila looked around. “Where is he? Does he know? Call him up and let him know.” She urged.
The doorbell rang. It was the police.
Reeta mentally cursed the inconsiderate Mrs Sisodia.
She could brush an affair under the carpet but not a dead woman.
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This is in response to Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge – Look Up. Obedient to the core, I looked up.
Last week was a difficult time. Looking up, it struck me that the long and short of it was that all of us are trapped in a spin of our own until Someone switches us off. Claustrophobic and not in the best frame of mind, I walked out in search of succor and inspiration.
Trees are such a comfort – and who can resist an endless blue sky dotted with cotton clouds? Horizons expanding, I walked to the other side of the house for a change in perspective.
Heart full, a crick in the neck, I couldn’t help looking down.
Quite a refreshing sight wouldn’t you say?
A bit easier than before, I went back in and read YP’s post – “Dragging through is ok – we will NOT always be able to Dash through issues….”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
And of course – Que sera sera
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It’s time for Sunday Trees -243
Believe it or not, that is not a forest but a single tree. One that is more than 250 years old. The area occupied by the tree is about 18,918 square meters (about 1.5 hectares or 4 acres). The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m. and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m. Interestingly, the tree survives without its main trunk, which decayed and had to be removed in 1925.
Instead, it has a large number of aerial roots, which grow from the branches and run vertically to the ground and looks like it has so many trunks. It is estimated that at present it has 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root. Fascinating isn’t it?
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Here’s this week’s submission for Cee’s oddball photo challenge # 27. This is taken from the balcony of a 6th floor apartment in Mumbai.
I couldn’t help wondering if her friend threw her or she jumped fell. 😉 Good pic for a flash fiction eh? Anyone game?
Written for the Friday Fictioneers hosted by Rochelle for the picture prompt below – a story in 100 words or less. For amazing stories on this prompt click here. Thanks to Jan Marler Morrill for the photo.
Words 99
“This alley is so tiny.” Sheena laughed. “I remember it as a long dark highway!”
“Useful for sneaking back inside.” Her brother winked.
“And learning the facts of life,” Sheena said.
“Meaning?”
“When I was about 12, I overheard Dad telling Mom – if it is again a girl, I will get another wife.”
Sheena shook him by the arm. “Make your peace with Dad. He loves you!”
“Yeah right. After my bike accident, I overheard him – Thanks to God for saving my son. I cannot afford to lose him. It’s not like I have two or three sons.”
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For Susan’s Macro Moments challenge Week 3
Sorry no idea about lens and other stuff – just a simple phone camera 🙂
Quite unafraid as I clicked her – or perhaps frozen with fear? She does have a wild look in her eye doesn’t she?
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Yeah well today’s Thursday but somewhere it’s Wednesday! 😀 Linda runs this really cool challenge One-liner Wednesdays and this week the prompt is ‘Opposite of Feverish.’ This is my first time and not very sure how to deal with it one line – but why worry when the internet is at your service 😉
I found this really ‘cool’ quote 
Don’t you think it fits very well with the prompt?
P.S. It just struck me – my own line is pretty neat for the prompt as well! 
Dont get it? okay fine I will ‘spell’ it out again – I meant this line:-
Linda runs this really cool challenge One-liner Wednesdays and this week the prompt is ‘Opposite of Feverish.’ 
Oops, hope that got none of you ‘hot and bothered’ – okay fine!
Bhanushree let herself into the flat. Ankit was gone – after the morning altercation it was to be expected.
The house, the cupboards were bare of his belongings. Sudden tears choked her – the sight of her single toothbrush too much to bear. His razor – she stiffened and annoyance flooded her. Lazy bum, couldn’t even throw it in the trash. And what a mess she fumed.
Bhanushree set about scrubbing the flat to her fastidious liking. Mom was right. Live in doesn’t work. But better than being stuck in a marriage with an irresponsible brat -leaving the balcony door open.
Bhanushree froze. His sneakers lay there.
“There! Happy? You made me wash your dirty sneakers.”
“I didn’t ask you to wash them.”
“I told you to wash them. But…”
“They looked fine to me.”
“I can’t stand to see you wear such filthy sneakers.”
“Well that’s your problem isn’t it?”
“I’ll tell you what my problem is – You! Get out of my house!”
A tear slipped down her cheek. I tell him to do a thousand things – does he ever listen? No.
Yet today…
Words: 182. Written for the Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner (200 words or less). For other stories, click here
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Hello to everybody and welcome to another round of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is Bridges. For this challenge, I have chosen two remarkable bridges – one that is built and the other grown. Don’t quite get what I mean? Dive in Scroll down.
Øresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark. Pic taken from the Swedish side.
Øresund Bridge, an engineering marvel, is the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge for both road and railway. The bridge connects the Swedish city Malmo to Copenhagen the capital of Denmark. Running across the Øresund strait, the bridge, consists of 3 parts – a bridge, an artificial island and a tunnel. It runs nearly 8 kilometres from the Swedish coast to the artificial island of Peberholm in the middle of the strait and goes underground before emerging in Denmark – it looks pretty cool from the air. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of that but you can have a look here and you can read more about it here.
And as I said, my next bridge is one that isn’t built but grown – have a look 🙂
Living root bridge, Mawlynnong village near Shillong, Meghalaya India
The living root bridges Meghalaya (or Abode of Clouds) one of the seven sisters of the North Eastern states of India, are one of a kind in the world and are a sight to behold. These handmade living root bridges are tangles of massive thick roots, which have been intermingled to form a bridge that can hold several people at a time. The trek to these bridges is pretty steep (at least by my standards) so despite going to Mawlynnong, to my everlasting regret, I didn’t actually see these marvelous structures and instead had to rely on the pictures which our son clicked.
The local Khasi people are experts at ‘growing’ these bridges. They make the pliable tree roots to grow through betel tree trunks which have been placed across rivers and streams until the figs roots attach themselves to the other side. Sticks, stones, and other objects are used to stabilize the growing bridge. The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong – strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time. Since the bridges are alive and growing, they gain strength over time and apparently survive for hundreds of years.
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