Wednesday and a new picture from Rochelle for Friday Fictioneers. This week the picture is by Claire Fuller.
Friday Fictioneers is a community of bloggers who write a 100 word story each week on the same picture. Then we comment on as many stories as we have the time to and learn from all the brilliant minds in this community. If you want to join or just read either go to Rochelle’s page or follow the link after my story.
My story is exactly 100 words, and my genre is fairytale.
Copyright Calire Fuller
They strolled hand in hand through the night discussing poetry and fine art. They had distanced themselves from their families and had found a place in society.
All traces of their background were gone in their beautiful appearances. That’s what a healthy lifestyle and expensive plastic surgery can do.
As the night turned slowly into early dawn, Jed burrowed his head in Sue’s beautiful auburn hair and whispered:
“You are the only sunshine of my life”
Just then the first rays of morning sunshine fell onto their faces. They froze…
After all, trolls are always trolls independent of the human polish.
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January 30, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Talk about your double lives. I hope they still cared about one another after the sun came up. Inventive story with a fun twist, Björn.
They were bonded for ever. No choice really 🙂
I really had no idea where this one was going. A great idea. I think though, that you’ve got a couple of words in the wrong order at the start: ‘ themselves their from families’
Thank you Claire, that’s need fixing and thank you for the picture 🙂
I liked it a lot. Joined forever. Even in the morning after sunlight hit them. Shouldn’t all lovers be bonded that way?
Sometimes they are… 🙂
A clever idea…very nice, and has a nice fairytale ring to it, yes.
Brother Grimm I think. 🙂
“After all, trolls are always trolls indepentent of the human polish.”
Ha! Someone forgot to bring the sunblock… ooops!
SPF- 100000
Haha! I guess they fell off of too many charm bracelets! Funny stuff, Bjorn! Good story.
Thank you.
it’s a great story when taken literally and figuratively… 🙂 trolls will always be trolls, so true.
There is a symbolic meaning in the story also.. true 🙂
a perfect match for the picture! I loved it! 🙂
Thank you
It was just so well done that I couldn’t come up with any more creative words than what I said! 🙂
this was great. I was not expecting trolls. your last line is perfect.
Thank you, twists are nice 🙂
just an aside: when my mother was a little girl, she somehow got it into her head that road machines (scrapers, bulldozers and the like) were trolls. Every time she saw one, she’d come running and screaming into the house, hiding behind her mother’s skirts. I can’t read a troll story that I don’t think of my Mama. Thank you for taking me there with your work.
Awesome story.. And matches the pic to the T.. He going inside her during the day, and night as lovers.. the whole idea seems too good..:-) Nicely done.
True, but what else would turn to stone.
Original take – would never have linked trolls with the picture. Well done.
I linked the troll through souls petrified. Thank you. And I grew with troll stories, where some trolls were more like outcasts of society.
Great story! Loved the ending, as always 🙂
Thank you Jan
LOL. Trolls!
Thank you
That’s a dfferent fairytale.
Trolls… good thinking!
Thank you Parul
Having them revealed to be trolls was a nice twist, something I didn’t expect.
janet
I’m always glad to surprise.
Being the sunshine in someone’s life has a sinister connotation in a story like this. 🙂 Do they come back the next night, or is that it for them?
Nope, once stone always stone. Remember Bilbo?
Yeah, that’s what I thought of first, but then I thought of the show “Gargoyles”, so just wanted to check.
I like ‘trolls are always trolls’. There’s an archetype in there somewhere. I didn’t get the sunlight thing till I researched into trolls. Unusual take on the prompt. Liked it.
Trolls and sunshine is not a good combo. As bad as for a vampire.
This was a fun story -made me laugh. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I felt a little sorry for them too.
Great story there you’ve got!
Thank you Charles.
Such a creative direction you took with this prompt. Really grabs your reader.
Thank you Sandra
Like the “healthy lifestyle and expensive plastic surgery” makeovers and the last-line moral. (Note: I think there’s a typo in “independent”.)
Thank you 🙂 and typo corrected
Hi Bjorn,
Nice sunglasses. I’ve met some trolls, and they get better looking after a few drinks. Fun story. I’m going to be concerned crossing bridges now. Ron
Much better with sunglasses and drinks. Plastic surgery can be costly.
Very clever take on the prompt, Bjorn http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/fridayfictioneers-janus
Thank you 🙂
The fairy tale ending is what grabs me the most. Excellent!
Thank you Joe 🙂
Sad, sweet, and with a twist. It made me think of Shrek – my experience with trolls is limited.
Trolls are sometimes a metaphor for outcasts in society
Trolls…well done. Nice take on the prompt.
Tom
Thank you.
Hee! And trolls are notoriously forgetful about little details like staying out of the sun. At least they won’t have to worry about ruining their makeovers by getting all leathery and wrinkled from too much tanning!
You’re quite right, marble don’t tan easily
really very interesting..and the last line completes it.
Thank you. A little surprise that worked.
Loved the ending. Unexpected.
Sometimes a little surprise is the best way to do it. Thank you.
I think they saw more in each other than everyone else did, and that was enough, except for those certain stark moments when reality could not be denied. Then again, from your second paragraph, maybe one of them was Joan Rivers.
Joan Rivers is probably troll. Has she ever seen sunshine.
Dear Bjorn,
So you can polish a troll but…
Wait, you can take the troll out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the…
No, wait. Once a troll, always a…
Loved your take on the prompt. Ingenious.
Aloha,
Doug
Poor trolls. A quite usual take on them. We have quite a few here in Sweden. I assume it’s more of a challenge living in Hawaii
A lovely story. And it started so normally.
I love to change style… 🙂 this week I went with the twist.
Really good take on the prompt. Had no idea where you were going with it!
Good, mission acomplished 🙂
A troll is a troll is a troll; lest we forget.
Yes indeed. Trolls are always trolls. There is a sad social dimension to that.
Boring little things who have no lives of their own. They should just write fiction. 😉
Thanks for the smile, Bjorn – a lovely natural twist!
Thank you 🙂
Wow, an unexpected twist at the end. This was a full, rich story. I loved it!
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it.
“…independent of the human polish…” Very cool line.
Thank you.
I loved it.
Thank you, and thanks for the RT of my twitter limerick too 🙂
You’re Welcome. 😀 Loved the limerick too. 😀
Haha. Great plot twist. I never would have thought of trolls and learned something about them (sunshine is not their friend). Thanks for stopping by mine.
I love twists… and sometimes they just fall naturally.
A new classic fairy tale. Well done, Bjorn. I could see his face burrowing in her hair.
But some of the auburn color is lost after transformation
trolls are not very smart. well done.
I think that trolls are not well-know for being smart, and those I’ve met have actually been quite stupid.
I love the troll twist!
Thank you
Really nice Björn, I’m catching up on some earlier stories rather belatedly. It has an almost ancient Greek mythological feel…
🙂 Nice
Great story Bjorn – don’t know how I got here, but it is a good story. Thanks! Nan
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