Every week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (thank you, Rochelle!) hosts a flash fiction challenge, to write a complete story, based on a photoprompt, with a beginning, middle and end, in 100 words or less. Post it on your blog, and include the Photoprompt and Inlinkz on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!

Relief
‘I don’t know how long I can hold on, Richard,’ I gasped. Every bump in the road – and there were many – doubled the feeling of urgency in my bowels.
Snow lay a foot deep on the verge and our tyre chains crunched in ice; it must have been twenty below.
‘Look! Look there! Stop!’
There was a quaint little hut at the side of the road, two narrow stories high.
‘I guess it’s a toilet,’ said Richard, ‘but look at the signs on the doors. Voters below – politicians above!’
‘I don’t care. It beats digging a hole in the snow.’
Pretend to be a politician. It’s the only way
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Teehee! I like your comment, Neil.
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I agree, not digging holes and going in the snow – it’s too cold! NIce one, Penny!
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I’m sure you’re right, Mason, it would be very cold and unpleasant. Not that I’ve done it, you understand… 😉
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Did it once, not fun!
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Dear Penny,
And we all know that urgency, don’t we? 😉 Hope these facilities weren’t just for show. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle
Thank you for your kind comment. Yes, we all know that urgency, which always feels particularly acute in a car.
Shalom
Penny
xx
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Aha! Those are rest-rooms, right? Now I know!
The politician one will have better facilities?
When we have to go, we have to go 🙂
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Thank you for your comment, Anita. I’m not completely certain they’re rest rooms, but I think they are.
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LOL! Good choice!
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Thank you for your empathic comment, Jade.
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It was touch and go there for a while (which you captured so nicely). But if she hadn’t seen the huts, maybe it would have been back to nature under the open skies and trees?
Pax,
Dora
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Thank you for your empathic comment, Dora. Personally I would endure a good deal of discomfort before I would poo in the open at twenty below, wouldn’t you?!
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Frostbite or insanity? Okay, I’m glad this is just a story. 😉
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Ha! Darlene’s mom would’a been happy to dig you a chamber pot … 😀
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Thank you for your generous comment, Na’ama. Thank Darlene’s mom for me, would you? 😉
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🙂 I will indeed! 😉
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If you have to go you have to go. You describe the urgency so well.
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Thank you for your kind comment, Gabi. I guess we all know what it feels like!
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You had to bring practicality into it. I never gave a thought to functionality.
Well done. 🙂
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Thank you for your generous comment, Bill. The muse had rather deserted me so I wrote a very literal story. As you say, it was a story about functionality!
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🙂 You’re welcome, Penny.
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At that point, I would gladly have passed myself off as a politician, but hoped that there were no voters below 🙂
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Thank you for your compassionate comment, Linda. I suppose one could always shout a warning to the occupier of the lower cubicle…
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Like, ‘Incoming!” ?
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Ugh I hate that feeling of needing to go while on a long car trip! You gave us that perfect sense of urgency and reminder. A fun piece.
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Thank you for your comment, Laurie. I’m glad the story captured some memories for you!
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i’d say do first, ask forgiveness later. 🙂
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Thank you for your empathic comment, Plaridel. I agree with you!
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That first paragraph – I think most of us can relate! At least they found somewhere – sort of 🙂
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Thank you for commenting, Ali. It’s a long time since I’ve been in that situation, but the memory lives on!
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As they say, any port in a storm! Now I need to go!
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Thank you for commenting, Keith. Sorry if I perturbed your bowels!
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With the history of the human need… One could write a thesis,
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Thank you for your imaginative comment, Michael. I wonder if anyone has written such a thesis…and whether it earned them their PhD!
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So well told, Penny, we’ve all been in that situation ! It made me smile. Glad she found relief.
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Thank you for your kind comment, Francine. Yes, she found relief; a happy ending!
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