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 © Ronda Del Boccio
Come back safe
Tatsuya is away. Will he be back tomorrow, or next week?
I clap twice, fold my arms across my breast and bow to my household shrine, emptying my mind. A melody lures, light and shade slide slowly past each other and my fingers tingle. I push these distractions gently away, letting my mind fill with the nothingness that holds all things. The music stills and the colours fade.
When I open my eyes, I am dazzled by my rice plants glowing green with life. It is a good omen.
Kagutsuchi, please bring Tatsuya safe home from fighting the wildfires.
Autumn Leaves 