PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

“Our house, is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats and a flood…”

He stopped singing the old song and listened to the water coursing down the street.

“Sure, I’ve been stuck on the floor days, your food has run out, and no one can get here to help, but we have each other.”

Chloe and Spike had been sitting on the coffee table staring at him for hours. He’d fallen out of his wheelchair and his usual attendant couldn’t get to the house.

The cats looked hungry and as he said, the food had run out.

It’s Wednesday and time once again to participate in Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ 3 January 2025 (Happy New Year) edition of Friday Fictioneers.

The idea is to use the image above as the prompt for crafting a short story or poem no more than 100 words long. My word count is exactly 100.

Since my offering for last week was so uplifting, I decided to do something a bit horrific this morning. Poor person is about to find out just how loyal a couple of hungry cats really are.

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

For the past several years just before the coming new year, I’ve been posting a pictorial history of my publication history for the past year. For 2024, thirteen short stories, serials, and drabbles have seen the light of day. Hoping for an even more productive 2025.

Read all about it in 2024: A Year in Review.

Oh, the song “Our House” was written by Graham Nash and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young for their 1970 album “Deja Vu.” The older folks among you probably recognized it.

Happy New Year.