Soshi’s Magic Teleporting Divorce Machine

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PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox

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“A little early for Sukkot,” Brad chuckled to himself.

“Very funny.” Soshi winced at another of his jokes criticizing her Judaism. “We could use it as a sukkah, but it would make a nice outdoor playhouse for the kids.

“I don’t know.” He gazed upward. “It kind of looks like rain.”

“Just step inside and tell me what you think.”

Brad reluctantly walked into the center of the structure. Soshi quickly took a small remote out of her pocket and pressed the red button. Instantly, Brad was beamed into a different reality.

“Laugh your way out of that one, Brad.”

It’s Wednesday and once again time to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 10 May 2024 edition of Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image above as the prompt for crafting a poem or short story no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

Given certain world events lately, antisemitism seems to be on the rise with a vengeance around the world including here in the U.S. where I live. I don’t suppose families and marriages are immune.

My wife is Jewish and I’m a Christian. Actually, when we got married forty-one years ago, neither of us were religious. Long story short, I’m now Christian (it’s complicated) and my wife is mildly observant. These days she primarily does a lot of volunteer work at our local Chabad synagogue, but that’s also complicated.

Unlike Brad, I am totally okay with however she wants to express her being Jewish. In Brad and Shoshana’s case, she’d just about had enough of his teasing. For good or for ill, she found a rather unique solution to the problem.

Should she beam Brad back home after a suitable cooling off period or change reality so that she’s a single parent? If the latter, what will she tell Tommy and Becky, or would existence automatically adjust to the change?

Oh, read more about Sukkot HERE.

To read other stories based on the prompt, visit inlinkz.

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Cover art for the anthology “Galactic Treks.”

My science fiction novelette “The Aliens” has just been published in the Starry Eyed Press anthology Galactic Treks. The tales therein are a callback to an earlier time in the genre emphasizing space operas, adventure, ray guns a’blazing, and the “final frontier.”

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24 thoughts on “Soshi’s Magic Teleporting Divorce Machine”

  5. Omg! That’s unfair…to get rid of him without letting him know. She should bring him back and talk it over. I liked the idea of the machine, though. Very creative.

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  8. Hey, my husband and I have been married for forty-one years as well. It does take compromise and acceptance of differences, but I’m glad I don’t have one of those remote thing-a-ma-giggies as it would be tempting … haha. Seriously, the state of the world is sad. There is an awful lot of hate. Thanks for sharing, James.

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