Mr Tumnus was late. His boss had made him cross-check all the spreadsheets.
“Jadis wants your report on her desk tomorrow morning”.
Rumors said that they were targeted by a major equity firm, and the witch wanted to cash out.
“Can’t be any worse than this”, he thought while parking his battered old Toyota on the snowy driveway.
He knew the fridge was empty but he only craved sleep.
Suddenly he saw her by the lamppost. She looked forlorn in her large fur-coat, but he knew the corporate policy:
Never talk to strangers.
Disappointed Lucy shut the door to Narnia.
© Dale Rogerson
I could only think of Narnia when I saw the lamppost and the snow. I guess I’m not the only one.
Rochelle selects the picture and lead the way. The rest of us tries to find a hundred word story in the image and write. We are Friday Fictioneers.
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February 14, 2018
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Oh no. How different the world would be…
It would… now we have to live with Janis.
Things have gone downhill in Narnia, a shame the real world has encroached into it. Nice use of the prompt – the first Narnia one i have read.
Maybe the world of Lucy is what’s magic these days.
That’s what he gets. “Business first” is a stupid policy. He doesn’t deserve Lucy, and he’ll regret losing her for the rest of his life.
I think Narnia deserves to remain frozen with such policies.
So sad, we miss out when we are blinded by the urgent, sometimes mistakenly overly important things in life. Nice story! 🙂
I actually thought that Mr Tumlin would have been an accountant today…
From Mr. Tumnus, I knew you were going “Narnia” – and that is way all right with me!!
I’m usually not too fond of changing other stories… but that lamppost just said Narnia for me.
I have to admit I came *this* close to going the Narnia route… it did scream for it!
Narnia … all the way for me! What a stupid policy…to miss out on all that magic!
I think it takes a witch to come up with such policies
😂😂
Dear Björn,
That was a unique twist on Narnia. When I saw Mr. Tumnis, I wondered if you weren’t headed there. Good one!
Shalom,
Rochelle
I saw the lamppost and couldn’t think of anything else than Narnia.
Sometimes we just get our priorties wrong. Nice one Björn,
And Narnia stayed frozen forever.
That’s such a classic scene from the books, a faun standing under a lamppost in the snow, arms full of parcels. As a child I found the idea of ‘Always winter and never Christmas’ chilling! How different the stories would have been if CS Lewis had take this route – winter would have reigned forever
Indeed… it would only take a small twist and Narnia would have been forever white.
I confees to liking the snowy Narnia better than after the thaw – but then, I was a dark child 🙂
Uh oh. He doesn’t know what he’s missing. And absolutely agree, lamp post is Narnia.
Maybe he got a small pay rise for his efforts at least.
Shame, darn those corporate policies. I hear Narnia’s very nice this time of year!
I actually live in a country were it’s always winter…
Nice take on the prompt. I haven’t thought about Narnia and all its magic for a very long time.
Ha.. I read it again not long ago… and the lantern in the snow felt like Narnia to me.
Wow. Great minds think alike.
The moment I looked at the picture, I remembered Narnia!
Since I had already written about it, I wrote something else!
Your interpretation takes the tale to another level!
I really thought that there would be a lot of Narnia tales
Didn’t want to duplicate!☺
Ha! Ha! Nice one, loved the idea. But there are no more wicked witches, they must be called kindness-impaired magic practitioners.
That consumes too many words for a 100 word story.
Narnia stuck in my head, too. But, I didn’t want to write Narnia… I love your take on it!
I didn’t want to get unstuck…
Narnia, nice twist.
Very clever, Bjorn. I didn’t see Narnia in the lamp post, but now that you mention it . . .
I must go read those Narnia tales again. Thanks for almost taking me there 😉
Oh, Lucy! Go ahead and be a rebel 🙂
Oh the sadness this evokes. Poor Mr Tumnus is not the faun he used to be.
Loved that twist at the end!
Hahahahaha loved this… paperwork hell even in Nania
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