
“What’s that thing?” Janie laughed.
Daryl tipped his floral ISLANDER hat. “This is a mere reminder of where my heart resides,” he said.
“Really? You ever been to an island? Ever even seen the ocean? And where’d you get that thing?”
Her questions hit him like punches. He almost reeled back, but he set his feet and his jaw. “Yes, no, no, and the internet if you must know.”
“Well, if you’ve never been to the islands, how do you know you’re an islander?”
“Come here,” Daryl said. “Look out the window at all the snow. That’s how I know.”
WC: 100
This is the second thing I wrote for our current prompt. The first one, written last night kinda stunk (in my opinion). Hopefully this is better! I think it is at least, and since the other has been discarded into the binary bin, you’ll just have to take my work for it.
Hope all you guys and gals are doing well out there and are having great luck with your stories, whether reading or writing them!
#FridayFictioneers is a weekly blog link up hosted by Rochelle over at RochelleWisoff.com, where our gracious host challenges us to fathom a story based on that weeks photo prompt in just 100 words. Thanks Rochelle! You should totally check it out and perhaps try your hand at your very own 100 word story!
We’re all islanders now
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Haha, doesn’t seem like a bad idea, does it?
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Have to agree with Neil – we are indeed all islanders at the moment. Nice one, Russell.
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Yeah we are. Thanks Susan!
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I’m entirely with him, I’m definitely an islander but more so when it snows.
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Thanks Michael, I’m with you!
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Yep, snow or sunshine? I know which one I want.
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Me too James. Me too.
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Dear Russell,
I have been to an island. While I live in the Midwest…yeah I’m an islander. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle!
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I guess we can all make our own island if we want, but remember – ‘no man is an island’!
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Oh, for sure!
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Good one, Russell… At this time our homes are our islands, aren’t they?
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Thanks Dale! It’s true, that we are all living a bit in our own little islands now. I will admit to not thinking about that at all while writing my little story though.
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Islander is a state of mind. Talofa Lives!
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Absolutely!
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Good ole internet.
There is some thing about islands…
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There is an allure to the islands for sure!
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I never thought about islands in snow but it makes sense!
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Thanks Alicia!
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An island in a sea of snow. I’m glad to be done with that for the next few months, not that it ever gets that bad here. Now, we’re all Gilligans refugees on our own islands of solitude. Fun banter.
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Thanks! We only see snow every couple of years. It’s a big event when it happens. Everything shuts down, and nobody knows how to drive.
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They say “no man in an island” but i beg to differ … some are. And some women, too. Here, take me, on an island (with millions of others, mind you, but still … ;))
Waving from NYC
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I could go for some island life right now too!
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Sigh. Well, I’m sort of on one, but this is not the kind of island I have in mind for a beach vacation … 😉
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I don’t know about the first one, but I totally identify with this one. Having grown up in Minnesota, I have experienced that sense of isolation in the center of a sea of sparkling snow. We lived in a prairie town, right across the road from a corn field. Vast and endless after a blizzard, the snow-sea surrounded our house.
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Thanks Linda! I’ve traveled to Indiana in January some years ago and witnessed what seemed like endless fields of snow. It was pretty, but too cold for my taste.
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Ha! Who can blame him? Fun story, Russell
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Thanks Lynn!
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This was a fun story. Sweet dreams are made of these.
We are all living in our little islands these days and its good to dream. 🙂
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Thanks Natasha!
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