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!
PHOTO PROMPT © SUSAN EAMES
Skiing in the rain
“Comment as-tu su que je suis Anglais?” I demanded of the bus driver.
He shrugged.
“Only the English go skiing in the rain.”
It wasn’t actually raining, and at the base station it was snowing thinly. The button lift was steep, seven hundred metres at forty-five degrees. You might call it exhilarating; I called it scary. I dismounted, scrambled a turn, caught an edge and tumbled.
Ow! My ankle burned.
Mobile phone.
Bother! It’s still by the bed.
“Only the English…” I thought, gazing round the deserted piste.
Balancing on one leg, it was a long, painful, exhausting journey down…
Autumn Leaves 