Another Flash Fiction challenge accepted - and another website to follow!
Micro Bookends
These guys like things short. Really short: 90 - 110 words. You start and end the piece with the words provided, and incorporate the photo prompt in there.
This week the challenge is:
Sacred {insert story here} Sound.
There is a quirky panorama of an airplane hangar for the photo prompt.
I have to admit - I spent some time bouncing ideas around in my head first focusing on the words. It wasn't until I stopped worrying about the beginning and ending words and started focusing on the type of photo - the panoramic style where the vertical lines 'curve' around the middle of the photo - that I had the thought.
"How do other species 'see' the human world?"
After that - it almost wrote itself...
Enjoy.
Bird Calling
105 words
"Sacred is the flight of the bird, to take wing upon sky and soar amongst cloud. Observe, oversee, monitor the heavy ones. Gaia watches through you."
When the sun rises, so does the ancient one, singing the morning call to send us on our tasks. The aerie fills with the cacophony of wing and song as my brethren take to the sky.
Today, I shall perch near the predator upright's wing enclave, where they house their funny hollow avians, to sing and observe until Gaia has her fill.
"Birdsong," one pipes up, throwing a chunk of bread my way, "I never tire of the sound."
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