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 © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
One Tide
Linda and Mark watched the waves pounding the sea-wall, hurling shingle across the promenade.
“I must go back,” sighed Linda.
Charlie, lying in his sick-bed, coughed. For a moment he was lucid. Linda could do better than Mark, he thought. Then the surging ocean carried him back sixty years to his first voyage in a three-master.
Linda looked at Charlie’s chest. Still breathing.
The sound of the surf faded. Charlie’s breathing became shallow.
Linda phoned Mark.
“I think he’s going. Will you come round?”
The couple sat hand in hand as Charlie’s tide ebbed.
“We can marry now,” said Linda.
Autumn Leaves 