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 (the blue frog) on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!
PHOTO PROMPT © Anshu Bhojnagarwala
Growing marigolds
Ferenc’s fingers hammered the final chords of the Polonaise, and the audience roared its approval.
“A new Liszt!” exclaimed one man to his wife.
Ferenc bowed and swept off stage.
Out of the shadows, the heavy hands of the secret police grasped him, forcing him from the building.
“You are an associate of terrorists.” The interrogator was implacable. “Give us their names, and we will let you live.”
One by one, he broke Ferenc’s fingers.
Now those twisted fingers painfully press marigold seedlings into the compost filling his piano case.
The seedlings will bloom prettily – but you can grow marigolds anywhere.
Autumn Leaves 