© Gah Learner
“Honey, come here. The full moon is so beautiful tonight.” Robin and Noah Clarke were celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary in a small resort town and had just returned to their hotel room after dinner.
“Full moon?” Noah picked up his smartphone and started pushing virtual buttons.
“Can’t you leave that thing alone and come watch the moon with me, please?” Minor annoyance etched her voice. “We’re on our second honeymoon…”
“That can’t be the Moon. Moonrise isn’t for another hour and the window faces west.”
Robin turned and looked out again. “Oh my God. You’re right. It’s getting bigger.”
I wrote this for the Rochelle Wisoff-Fields writing challenge. The idea is to use the image above as the inspiration for crafting a piece of flash fiction no more than 100 words long. My word count is 100.
The light in the photo is apparently the Moon, but then again, what if it isn’t?
To read other stories based on the prompt, visit InLinkz.com.
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They’re coming to take you away, haha.
They’re coming to take you away…
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Yes, I remember that song, too.
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Ha ha – that was cleverly done! I wasn’t expecting the surprise at the end of the story. 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thanks, Susan.
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Quick, dive under the bed!
Click to read my FriFic tale!
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That might not be enough, Keith.
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THEYYYY’RE HEEEERE! Well done!
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Thanks, Josh. Could be an asteroid, though.
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I always default to aliens when given the option! 😉
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That’s true. If it were an asteroid, it should be the same phase as the Moon (which I said wasn’t full) if it is merely reflecting sunlight.
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Dear James,
Uh oh. If it’s not the moon…intriguing. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle.
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I think they need to call room service fast. There’s not much else they can do
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Sure. Blow their whole vacation budget in a single night. Sounds like a plan. 😀
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Excellent take on the prompt, James. What a cliff-hanger!
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Indeed, Penny. Thanks.
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This is going to be an eventful anniversary. A nice trick of the senses.
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That’s putting it mildly. Thanks.
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I guess it is a good thing Noah didn’t have romance on his mind. Nicely done James.
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Yeah, this definitely would have killed the mood. Thanks, Susan.
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What a great twist! They best get outta there…
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There might not be anywhere safe to go Dale. Thanks.
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Ah, perhaps a second honeymoon wasn’t such a good idea after all!
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Depending on what it is, there may be no place they could have escaped from it. Thanks, Sascha.
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It seems to me that this is one of those instances where a man can be pardoned for not responding to his wife’s romantic overtures. 😊 The man’s character is interesting– not only a smartphone addict but a bit of a geek for astronomical phenomena. May come in handy!
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Maybe, depending on what that thing is. Thanks.
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What is it then? UFO?
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Could be anything. I deliberately left the ending vague. Quite a mystery, huh?
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It is. Dying of curiosity.
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I hope you don’t die, because I wasn’t intending on continuing the story. 😉
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So relieved.
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Oh my, it seems they are in a quite a predicament.
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They are indeed. Thanks.
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That gave me the shivers. What a great twist from romance to disaster.
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Just goes to show that disaster can strike at any moment.
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THAT was the first thing I thought of for my piece, but it was the Death Star blazing away at Earth. Fun take.
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I thought of that too, after I finished writing. Thanks.
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Was it an alien invasion, the End-of-the-World, or what? There’s a lot of missing stuff in there.
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I left that deliberately vague. Only a hundred words and all that.
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Yes it always helps to keep people guessing
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Simple explanations are the best. It’s probably the interplanetary Uber that they ordered after drinking the night away.
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They must be really smashed to have forgotten they called it. Normally you need a towel to hitchhike across the galaxy.
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An anniversary to remember. If they survive.
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If the world survives. Thanks, Jilly.
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Yikes! Run for your life 🙂
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You bet! Thanks, Linda.
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A lovely anniversary story … or that’s what I thought at first. Nice suspenseful twist! 🙂
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Thanks, Brenda.
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Very cleverly done!
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Thanks.
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a full moon can make some people go temporarily crazy. hope such is the case here. 🙂
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Actually, objective scientific studies refute the effects of the full moon on human psychology, but what do I know?
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i know a lot of nurses who can attest to the full moon affect on patients. but one never knows. 🙂
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I’ve heard that for decades, but I clearly recall reading a paper on the matter and statistically there is no measureable increase in “lunatic” behavior during a full moon.
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I hope they live to talk about the wrong moon they saw on their second honeymoon. Nicely done.
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Thanks, JoHawk.
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At least they had the time a honeymoon before the world went up in flames.
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I’m sure there would be survivors. I’m just not sure they’d be among them.
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