The Write Type of Teacher

Rochelle, host of Friday Fictioneers , challenges her community of writers each week to compose a short (100 word) story in response to a photographic prompt.  This week, the prompt is provided courtesy of Connie Gayer. The Forest When asked to draw a family tree she sketches a forest.  Charcoal pines stalk the borders of her page, their blackness billowing behind them like warnings.  With each smudge they creep closer; a crowd sneaking towards the centre. There, another pine.  A sapling, perhaps.  Smaller than the rest.  Slight.  Leaves curling inwards around arms that cross, that say NO WAY, that say GO AWAY. Bark and branches crackle.  The sound fills empty spaces and slaps into subservience words that dare defy their desires.  * When next asked, she again sketches a forest.  This time: a hole where the sapling once stood.  

Rochelle at Friday Fictioneers  offers her community of writers a weekly opportunity to write a 100 word story in response to a photographic prompt.  This week, the photo prompt is provide by Rochelle herself! Mirrors In a world without mirrors I… Search for myself in the kitchen, piecing together fragments to make a Picasso-esque portrait of youth: nose distorted by the curve of the faucet irises lost in the dark window of the microwave hands segmented by the patterns in the crystal. Seek out my silhouette in magazines, only to find that ‘Kardashian’ does not quite fit. Turn to him, hoping that the baritone of his voice will help sketch the pieces of me that are missing. No.   In a world without mirrors I must find another way to see, another way to be… me.