KALEIDOSCOPE

This is a unique flash fiction challenge hosted by Barb Beacham. Barb provides a new photo each week, and the first sentence of a story.

Our challenge is to finish the story using 100-150 words, not including the sentence provided. Don’t forget to use the opening sentence…

This challenge runs from Monday to Sunday! So get creative and have fun finishing the story!

Please include the photo with your bit of flash and a link back to this post. Do not forget to click on the blue frog and add your link so that others can enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!

This week, thanks go out to Eric Wickland of Momusnews who came up with the opening line to go with this week’s photo!

 

KALEIDOSCOPE

 

"At first it looked like an ordinary marble, but it was far from it."

 

Celine carefully glued each piece into place, and then bowed her head in prayer.

 

She recalled the flash in the sky. First on the scene, she found the glass ball glowing with a kaleidoscope of unique colors. She heard a voice in her head. "Do not break, hazardous to your planet's health."

 

"This is just too pretty to break, so you don't have to worry about that." She spoke aloud, and then laughed, shaking off the eerie warning. She hurried home with her prize.

 

For ten years, the glass ball sat stately as the centerpiece on her mantel, but a dusting accident changed everything.

 

Celine finished her prayer, crossed her fingers, and hurried to the window of her New York City condominium. Nothing had changed; hundreds of senseless bobble heads still filled the streets. Humanity had not returned to normal.

 

Celine screamed, and screamed, and screamed.

 

146 words

Yolanda Renée © 2015

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