63 responses to “A jar of life – 100 Word story for Friday Fictioneers”

1. I enjoy these 100 word stories. I liked the photo and the idea of yours. I especially liked the camera line. Now I’m off to read some others. Thank you for sharing the link!

   • My pleasure it’s so fun to write them.

2. This is very nice. Reflective

   • Thank you 🙂

3. Like it but it sounds as though an explosion is about to happen. Nice twist at the end (or what I think is the twist.) 🙂

   • Can’t do a story without a twist 🙂

4. You got me in the end! Nice twist. Batteries as memories. I like that idea, too! Nice job.

   • I saw the memories attached to the batteries. Sad and happy memories…

5. Oh goodness in a world where terrorism lives. Nice imagination I hope.

   • Or in my imagination a disappointed man who decides to blow up his own house…

     • 🙂

6. Very thought-provoking, Bjorn. I picture him as having lost her and deciding to destroy it all.

   • Thank you, that was my thought 🙂 sad story…

7. The small incidences of battery life running out colliding with these huge disasters in his life. Interesting reading, I like the list.

   • Thank you, enjoyed writing the story embedded in a list.

8. Wow. Stunning as always, Bjorn.

   • Thank you. 🙂

9. Nice work Björn. “…leaving the house they never built.” That line spoke volumes.

   • Thank you, almost unbearable sad.

10. So much told in those sentences.
    Nice twist at the end too!

    • Thank you. Had to have a twist ..

11. I liked the way the memories became sadder… a good technique. Enjoyed.

    • Actually I have read a short story with a piece of paper with scribbled phone numbers that told a whole story. Found it harder to do with batteries.

    • This is the short story inspiring me http://etthalvtarkpapper.se/category/lasa/engelska-lasa/ I read it many years back, but it lived in my memory. Written by our greatest author August Strindberg.

12. Agree with Sandra. Can imagine people doing this with other things too

    • Inspired by this one http://etthalvtarkpapper.se/category/lasa/engelska-lasa/ read it when I was young.

13. Oh yikes. This is so well told, and I love the concept here, Bjorn. Well done.

    • Thank you 🙂

14. Bjorn, this is so poignant and very well written. I had tears in eyes. 🙂

    • Thank you. Need to share the inspiration I had at the back of my head http://etthalvtarkpapper.se/category/lasa/engelska-lasa/

15. Wow, a lot of impact and emotion in a very short story. Excellent use of the prompt!

    • Thank you 🙂

16. You’ve chosen your memories well–they work. Moving story.

    • Thank you 🙂

17. Very sad and surreal, looking back, remembering the pain, and what would never be. I’m sure all left him wanting not to remember what he would never forget.

    • I am glad I managed to get my thoughts with the story across. 🙂

      • Yes, you did and did it very well.

18. Hi Bjorn,
    I thought this was a tough photo to draw a story from, but you managed to pull a great one from it. Congrats, you’re very inventive. Ron

    • Thank you 🙂

19. Great job! Very sad and descriptive…

    • Thank you 🙂

20. I thought the good memories only made it sadder in the loss. Nicely done.

    • The higher the fall, the worse it is 🙂

21. Well written. You took my hand and led me down the path, possibly seeing an old man missing his mate. Then you left me by the road, watching a man ready to commit murder! Wham bam! Well done.

    • I hope no murder of anything but unbearable memories was involved.

22. not recycled, probably not a piece found either.

    • 🙂

23. Love how you ended this …the build up to the final explosion. Sweet!

    • Thank you

24. One word: Brilliant. Of all the wonderful stories this week, but this is my favorite. The line that got to me was about the baby monitor…reminded me of Hemingway’s famous 6-word memoir…”For sale…baby shoes…never worn.”

    • Thank you so much. Had never heard that Hemingway one. In the back of my head was this one

      http://etthalvtarkpapper.se/category/lasa/engelska-lasa/

      Recommend it.

25. Really enjoyed this, Memories are powerful. thanks

    • Thank you, somehow this prompt was easy for me.

26. What a mixture of memories. They get darker and darker. These few words capture loss and anger in an almost matter of fact manner.

    • Indeed they do. How sad life can be.

27. Powerful story in 100 words… the baby monitor got me.

    Next time you are in Seattle… let me know.

    • Thank you, and if you stop by Stockholm tell me 🙂

28. Such a brilliant idea – very tenderly written. I almost like it better without the very last line, but I know you like to have a twist at the end.

    • I agree, it was a choice I was thinking about. but it’s a little bit more than a twist, I had two choices, either he just left with his memories, or he escapes his memories by blowing up the house.

29. Dear Bjorn,

    Life’s twists and down turns were carefully and heartbreakingly chronicled in your sad but well written piece. Nicely done.

    Aloha,

    Doug

    • Thank you. It was a pleasure to write.

30. Excellent piece, Bjorn. Very well written.

31. Sad story and I too love twists in my stories. Depending on the subject, a lot of mine have them. Great job!

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