PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox

Jerry had been a little surprised that Yasna still lived with her parents. She was twenty-five and a rising star in his company’s HR department. This was their first date and he didn’t expect to have to meet her parents.

While Yasna was getting ready (he’d gotten there ten minutes early), they left him in their den. Her Mom went upstairs while her Dad offered to get him something to drink.

“Christmas wreaths I can get, but what are these?” He reached up and touched one of the odd ornaments hanging from the lamp.

“What is your wish my master?”

It’s Wednesday and time again to participate in this week’s edition of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers. The idea is to use the image at the top as a prompt for crafting a poem or short story no longer than 100 words. My word count is exactly 100.

My ten-year-old granddaughter is going to appear in a school musical for the next two nights based on the 1992 animated film Aladdin. Last night was the final practice so she’s really stoked (she’s in the chorus).

The ornaments hanging from the lamp in the photo looked vaguely middle eastern to me so there you go.

Screenshot taken from Amazon

To read other stories based on the prompt or to contribute one of your own, go to inlinkz.

Cover image for my novel “A Wobblegong and His Boy”

My soon-to-be published Boy’s Adventure Science Fiction Novel A Wobblegong And His Boy went on pre-order last Friday for delivery to your Kindle device on March 20th. I checked and as of this morning, it is still number one on Amazon’s list of New Releases in Children’s Space Exploration books.

That’s pretty cool since number two on the list has been out since March 3rd. Looks like people are doing some significant pre-ordering which makes me really excited. I have high hopes that my book will do well and lead to other successful projects.

Technically, the novel was written to encourage boys from ages 8 to 18 to read more. Over time, we’ve stopped writing books that boys want to read and Raconteur Press with their Fox Cub Adventure Club project is putting out a series of similar science fiction and fantasy books to change all that.

I *ahem* think that girls and adults would enjoy my book as well, so don’t feel like you have to fit into the target readership in order to buy and read “Wobblegong.”