Here’s to another Friday Fictioneers post! I just love Fridays! Thank you Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting.
This event happens every Friday, we are given a picture as a prompt. We are to write a 100 word story using that picture prompt. (there are no penalties for going over) We leave a link at our hostess’s blog for all others to click so that they can read, leave comments and enjoy!
It always amazes me how many different stories come out of the same photo. Please come and join us! It’s great fun and great practice to your writing. Also, it doesn’t have to be a story, you can do poetry or whatever you want. Just keep as close to 100 words as possible.
Here is this Fridays picture:
Welcome to the Doorway of Your Life! Pick a door! Any door! Just remember folks that what door you pick to go through will be YOUR LIFE!
So what will it be? A rich life full of happiness? A sad room that is gloomy? A bright room where you are rich and famous?! You choose! Play the wonderful Game of Life!
Will you have a room where there is marriage and children? How about a room that is bland and lifeless? Hurry folks! This is a once in a life time choice! Come one, Come all! Choose your room now!
Keep in mind that what room you choose is non-returnable!
The Last Chapter 
Great response! I like how it sounds almost gameshow like. But it doesn’t sound too friendly… 🙂
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I’m glad you got the gameshow part. That’s what I was trying for without actually saying it. 🙂
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Well done! 🙂
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Love the overexcited sales pitch! It sounds like one of those late-night TV ads selling some disreputable product.
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Thank you. I was trying something different. 🙂
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Loved it, a game show I would be terrified to play seeing how what I thought I wanted in life would have never measured up to what I got.
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yeah, me too. I wanted that slight terror to creep in, not sure if I managed that. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Trust me I felt that. A life choice that can’t be changed is too much for even me.
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This is brilliant… I hope I choose right if ever I was faced with the choice.
Very well done, really like this
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thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
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Oh, good one, Jackie! Do they get to choose their door, or is it by chance? I liked this a lot!!
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Thanks Amy! Oh they get to choose! So they better choose carefully. 😉
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Love it! Although being a seasoned procrastinator I’d be hanging around in the corridor for a long time if it was me 🙂
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hmmm didn’t think of the procrastinators. Maybe a timer? 😉
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It reminds me of “Let’s Make a Deal”: door #1, door #2 or door @3? But the consequences are much more serious in your story!
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exactly! thanks for reading… 🙂
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Yes a life stranger than fiction. I suspect that some rooms may be over crowed. Nice take on this week photo prompt.
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Thank you!
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Not bad. Very nice.
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thank you!
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Oh, I just know I would hate reincarnation…
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supposedly you come back as a higher being…..but you never know. 🙂
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Ohhhhh. I did not get that from that picture at all…but I love the sort of……can’t think of the right word. There’s nothign exactly scary in what you wrote, but that combined wit the picture just make me think of a Stephen King-esque thriller….chills. Well done My sistah!
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my mind is a dark dark place…haha! Glad you liked it. 🙂 did you get my email?
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I think. I was emailing jen for like an hour and ah alf straight while she helped get set up for a freelance writing gig through her boss so I probably got it but it probably got lost in the stack since both emails start with J. Let me check.
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oh another job?? great!! I would like to get into freelance to help the cost of writing. But not sure I”m qualified or even how to get started. Good for you!
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Let me get started as Jen teaches me and then (once I actually meet the boss) I’ll see if he wants more people. You’re already overqualified for this :p promise…it’s super easy….and complex at the same time…but the writing part is easy.
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oh great! Thanks sistah!
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Sure thing!
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Very creative. Scary. Exiting. All at the same time, ie. brilliant response!
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Thank you Tiny!
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welcome to earth. it may as well be that random. seems that way sometimes. well done.
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Thank you!
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Dear Jackie,
You’d make a great Master of Ceremonies. Hurry, hurry, step right up…I’ll take door number seven please.Lucky number and all.
Aloha,
Doug
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Ah but is number 7 really lucky? Thanks for reading. I appreciate it as always Doug.
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An unusual take, and the dialogue was irritatingly convincing. Also a bit sinister. Well done.
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Thank you!
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Who plays the Supreme Being here? Wayne Brady? Bob Barker. Unique, Jackie.
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I was trying for something different. thanks for reading Rochelle.
🙂
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I often say where we end up is plain coincidence and one should never let one’s filial circumstances go over one’s head.
I like this possibility. There could be a lottery system going up there. Good work!
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Thank you! Appreciate it.
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Hi Jackie – a unique take on the prompt. I believe many would choose a door if it guaranteed less misery, deprivation, sorrow and hardship. Nice work.
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Thank you Lora!
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Jackie,
Sounds like a guy working at a carnival to me….Snakeskin oil salesman. I can see the game show idea as well but I instantly had some guy outside a tent in my mind’s eye as I read your words. This had a great pace to it.
Tom
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Thank you Tom!
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Hi Jackie,
Creative and thought-provoking story. Do you have any rooms that are luxury suites? Ron
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Oh I’m sure there are one or two luxury suites, you just have to pick them. Thanks for reading Ron!
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I like it!
The game-show effect certainly came through.
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Thank you Abraham!
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Good one! Novel, creative, fun, and metaphorically deep. So glad to meet you here and thanks also for stopping by mine. 🙂
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Thank you! And you are so welcome! 🙂
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Spooky… you would need lots of courage to play this game. I think I would want to slap that perky voice!
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haha! Yeah that’s what I thought too when I wrote it. I want to slap them, but don’t dare in case they show me a really bad door. Thanks for reading Ted, appreciate it 🙂
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The game show of Life … oh, that was a board game. 🙂 …. but life is about the choices, so very well done.
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thank you 🙂
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