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Another Valentine’s Day alone. Cassandra considered turning the heat up in her small apartment but her rental agreement said she paid for heating and cooling. She pulled the blanket higher around her while watching TV. The big news was that Voyager 1 had sent back what would be the “Pale Blue Dot” photo of Earth.
“Whoopie.” She tucked her freezing feet under her butt. It was no use. The streets were paved with ice so she wasn’t going out. “Screw it.” Cass got up and opened the chest. “Now where did I put those global warming potions?” thought the witch.
It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 16 Feb 2024 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as a prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.
That sure looks cold. I had the whimsical thought of a person being so tired of the cold weather they decided to do something about it. Since that person is a down-on-her-luck witch, what she did was considerable: start “climate change.”
Actual estimates of the triggering of said-change range from 1850 to 1900. However widespread reporting of the change started around 1990. The pale blue dot photo was sent back to Earth by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990 so I made it part of the story.
Courtesy of NASA.
To read other stories based on the prompt, visit inlinkz.com.
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Nice tying together of events. So a witch was behind all this climate change – at this stage nothing would surprise me!
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It’s just a joke. I thought I’d try something lighthearted. Thank the internet for being able to look up events.
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Humanity would rather blame witchcraft for climate change than get off its butt and do something about it.
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In this case, it was just a whimsical tale. I had no serious intent behind it.
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I promise you it looked colder than it really was!
Poor thing. Nothing worse than having cold feet! The literal kind!
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I suppose Cassandra’s reaction may have been a bit much. That icy street looked hazardous.
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🙂 It was!
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A witch with a rental agreement! What a fun idea. She seems like someone I want to pity, until the second paragraph. So she’s to blame for it all. Poor little blue dot.
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She’s not the most stable of people and even a witch has to live somewhere. Thanks.
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Aha, we have found the culprit for global warming. It looks like if the climate is going to change then we will have to follow one way or the other. I have not met anyone who can control the weather. Well not yet.
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Who knows? Maybe Cassandra has a potion to cool us off.
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We’d all be better off if she just conjured up a sweater. Nice bit of whimsy.
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Thanks and probably so.
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Potions who knew that they where so powerful,
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Nice twist at the end.
Cold feel make the whole body feel cold.
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Thanks. Time to turn up the heat.
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very creative, James. I enjoyed that!
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Thanks, Brenda.
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Very creative story. Cass needs to learn moderation; to kindle a small fire rather than scorched earth.
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Thanks. She’s rather impulsive.
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You’re welcome.
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If only there were a spell to reverse it. I feel her cold, but maybe she overdid it just a bit.
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My comment may have gone to the spam folder but just in case, here it is again: If only there were a spell to reverse it. I feel her cold, but maybe she overdid it just a bit.
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Oh, she over did it. Now where did she put that global cooling potion? 😀
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It’s been a cold one here this year. If I were a witch.. 😉
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Yikes! 😀
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Light hearted works for me. Cassandra might need to get together with Agnes…over a potion or 2… ;-)
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Maybe so. Thanks.
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