I’m on a business trip this week, but still I have to mTFictioneers. This week I give you a haibun of 99 words.
Friday Fictioneers is a wonderful group of bloggers from around the world who every week gather to write a story of 100 words (more or less). If you want to know more, go to Rochelle Wissoff-Fields page and check it out. If you only want to check out the great stories click the little blue guy at the bottom.
Copyright El Appleby
Trying to melt in, he had always managed to be the odd person despite all his efforts. Picking up parts from people he met, he had became a conglomerate of everything he’d ever seen, and maybe also admired. His true self, that little orphan boy, was alone behind the skins he had picked up from his various acquaintances. The day he decided to come out of the closet he was welcomed by a few very close friends who had always managed to see through his flamboyant exterior.
hiding yourself
in the borrowed idol’s skin
friends will still see you
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June 6, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
We always pick things from other people throughout our lives. In the end, we all mesh into one mass of being human.
Wise (and sensitive) observation, Bjorn. Very nicely done.
this…is beautiful and exactly right. My favorite FF so far!!!
Mine is nearly completed and took on the same kind of tone.
have a good business trip!
A passionate story. Excellent.
I love this! The idea of picking up parts of people and hiding in borrowed skins – such a great take on the prompt.
Beautiful and insightful!
Have a safe trip, Bjorn!
Interesting take on the prompt. Have a good trip.
A very insightful story – and I love the little haiku at the end.
I like the haibun idea. Have to look into it when I have more time to write (or do almost anything other than work on the house!) I also like the idea of taking things from different people, something we all do. Safe travels!
janet
You can’t hide from friends. Good ones know you to the core.
Well said about picking up pieces from other people, but your good friends still being able to see you.
very nicely put. Aren’t we all the sum of what we learn. And how do we learn, by reading, and seeing and hearing.
Perhaps in another multiverse the creature exists for real ?
What you wrote is very deep and relatable. So beautifully written.
So glad he found others like him!
Great take on the prompt and very nicely done.
Good work. Have a safe trip
Dee
There is a wonderful children’s story I read to my grandson…
I think it is by Eric Carle…the cameleon wishes to be other animals and picks up their different parts… until he gets hungry and can’t use his new parts to get to his food. So he wishes to be himself.
Safe travels. Nicely done.
Dear Björn,
A sensitive take on the prompt.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Yes! You nailed it! I am printing this one off for my own pleasure. Well done.
Love this – beautiful and poignant, so much conveyed so briefly.
This reads almost like a parable. What a great metaphor.
Excellent writing, Bjorn.
Loved the simplicity of this – well done.
Wonderful haibun, Bjorn. So sensitively written
I feel empathy for the little orphan boy just craving affection and acceptance. I’m so glad he has caring friends. Lovely work, Bjorn.
A lovely haibun Björn.
It also helped me get my head around my own story for this week’s picture. Thanks.
It was the toughest one yet… but finally I got that idea
Great take on the prompt. Important message too.
I think this is one of my favorites of yours, Bjorn. Nicely done!
Works on several levels, true in each. Nice work!
Loved it! Well done.
Good Job! I liked it.
Scott
Mine:
You’ve made me cry but in a good way. A very gentle and beautiful response to both prompts. “Picking up parts from people he’d met…” : we all do that to a certain extent, don’t we, but moreso the person who’s made to feel the outsider. Just lovely, Björn :))
a beautiful interpretation Björn. love that you made it into a haibun 🙂
I always love your work. Wonderful.