Gratitude
For Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Challenge: 21 September 2018
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Photo Credit: Dale Rogerson
Sean returned to his hometown an old man.
He left in his 20s to seek fortune in America. Following tradition, his family held a wake because they didn’t expect him to come back.
Sean went to the local pub for a drink. Decorated with umbrellas, it was a reminder that they were in rain country. He looked around and didn’t recognize anyone.
Much had changed since then. The town had undergone a facelift after it became a popular tourist destination. Still, much had remained such as the memories, the cliffs, and the exhilarating coastal scenery. For these, Sean was thankful.
Writer’s Block
For Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Challenge: 14 September 2018
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Photo Credit: J Hardy Carroll
It’s Wednesday. I stay in my office cubicle and skip lunch to write something about this week’s writing challenge.
It seems like an easy task, but something’s amiss. The muse is nowhere to be found. The screen on my laptop remains blank and my anxious fingers on the keyboard can’t come up with anything to type. Is this what’s called writer’s block?
After what seems like an eternity, I glance at the clock on the wall and see that lunch break is over. Feeling frustrated and defeated, I go back to work that my employers are paying me to do.
Freedom
For Friday Fictioneers 100-Word Challenge: 7 September 2018
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Photo Credit: Gah Learner
Amelia looked out the window of her employer’s 10th floor residence heavy with child whose father she didn’t know.
It had been a year since she came to the Middle East to work as a housekeeper to support her family in the Philippines.
On the night she arrived, the master and his two sons took turns raping her.
They took away her passport and cellphone. Worse, they took away her dignity by making her a sex slave.
Freedom was so near and yet so far. But she knew she could fly. She spread her arms and jumped from the window.
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