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:
She loved this coffee shop. So calm, inviting, colorful. Loved the stained glass. She sat and watched people go about their lives. Made stories up in her head about them all.
She was a writer, a people watcher, a teller of tales. This was her haven. A quiet spot where she could let her imagination fly. The owner was always accommodating, friendly. A small town where everyone knew each other.
The sun shone bright. The day was clear. She sat in front on her laptop and clicked the keys that made her story come alive. She loved being a gossip columnist.
The Last Chapter 
What a nice place to go and think. Nice warm feeling to this piece. You captured the photo very well. Good work.
Tom
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Thank you Tom! appreciate you reading and enjoying.
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Oh, the perfect place to get the juicy gossip. I love it. You set the scene for her to begin her work. Nice one!
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Thanks Amy!
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Nice twist at the end – it all seemed so lovely until you find out what she was really up to!
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well you know, people are very rarely what they seem. Or I just am a bit twisted. 😉
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That’s the perfect setting to write! Very nicely done!
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Thank you!
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I can smell the coffee and sit here for hours…
Very nice!
Red
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me also. I wish I had a place like this to go to. Thank you!
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Oh I love this… You set it up so well, I bet she gets the juiciest gossips too. Very well done
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Thank you boomie, you always have kind words to say. I enjoyed your story also.
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Hi Jackie,
Eavesdropping must be a fun profession. Gossip is hard to resist. Interesting take on the photo. Ron
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personally I hate gossip, but this is what I wrote, strange that. Thanks for reading Ron.
Eavesdropping is, interesting. I’ve done it, just never gossiped about it.
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You always have such a clever ending! Love those twists! I’ll be traveling for the next couple of days (a wedding to attend!!!)…Happy New Year my dear friend!
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Travel safe my friend and enjoy the wedding. Thank you for always enjoying my little stories. Have a wonderful New year! hugs for then and now Tiny!
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Dear Jackie
Charming setting for a gossip columnist. In a small town I’m sure she has plenty of grist for the mill.
shalom,
Rochelle
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I’ve lived in small towns and I’m sure she does have plenty to write about. Thank you Rochelle.
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And what she doesn’t have, she can make up or do by inference. 🙂 You made it all sound very cozy, Jackie, at least until you got to the gossip part.
janet
jane
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Sorry about the “janet”/”jane” The box wouldn’t let me see what was written. 🙂
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thanks for reading. 🙂
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I love how she loves her work, her environment, and her place in life. You can’t help but like this gossip columnist, at least until she gossips about you.
Interesting take on the photo, Jackie.
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thank you! she really is harmless.
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if i ever sat with a gossip columnist, and if i ever mattered, i would make her/his career. well done.
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I’ve been reading your posts Rich, so yes you would, you have an interesting story to tell.
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if i had blood in my veins instead of red wine, i just might blush. thanks miss.
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I just might have to try harder then. ha! Have a wonderful day Rich.
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good one — it was very uplifting until that last line.
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oh she means well. thanks for reading.
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Love the gossip columnist twist at the end 😉 the coffee shop makes perfect sense then! So clever.
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hey! You’re back! thanks Peaches. 🙂
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I am! I’ve been a bad bloggy friend lately. I had a temp job for the week before the holidays and, when not preoccupied with that, I was going insane. The insanity has ended and I am not about to start the new job soooo…YAY! I’ll still be busy, but I’ll have a regular schedule!
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sounds great girl! Hey we all get bad sometimes. I just wondered what happened to you.
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Generally, if you don’t hear from me, stuff is going really well and I’m too busy to talk or it’s going really badly and I don’t want to talk. Helpful, no?
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hahaha sounds just like you. Okay, I should stop worrying then? yes?
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gossip. coffee. cafe. people watching. an ideal spot to wish for!
i love your story! 🙂
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thank you sunshine! I love the name Sunshine! 🙂
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haha i doubt the owner would be so friendly once he/she finds out that she’s the one spreading all the gossip ’bout him/her ^^ nice twist
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thank you kz!
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People watching – my favourite pastime. My husband says that by the final course I can probably tell you the state of the the relationship of most other people in the restaurant. You captured this beautifully.
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I do the same thing. It’s a great hobby is it not? 🙂 Thank you for reading.
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And I loved this story!
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thank you! I enjoyed writing it. I little something different.
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Sounds like she is an excellent gossip column writer. Good one.
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thank you!
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Zing … I didn’t expect that ending! Well done Jackie.
BTW – because you mentioned that you don’t see movies, I’ll admit that I don’t write fiction. … but I do have two Friday Fictioners who visit me.
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well see, you teach me movies and I’ll teach you fiction. Nothing like learning something new.
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Ha ha … but I can’t teach you much about movies – currently is only a streak we do this time of year. Nonetheless, I cover a wide-swath of topics … so I’m sure I’ll come in handy sometime.
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I’m sure you will 🙂
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🙂
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Dear Jackie,
A nice tale no matter what type of writer she ended up being.
Aloha,
Doug
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This post put ideas into my head!
Well written and an enjoyable read!
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thank you! glad you enjoyed it.
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I love observing people and eavesdropping on random conversations. It would make me very wary if the town gossip columnist hung around town, lol, but how else is she to gather her story?
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exactly! I’m sure they do hang around, just not so you know it. 😉
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I was a gossip columnist once! The first paper I ever worked on, I did the celebrity gossip, TV, Movie, book and record reviews and I wrote the horoscope. We didn’t have the internet so much in those days so we had to work HARD for our gossip!
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did you like it? I’ve known a real life gossip columnist! Somehow it’s hard for me to picture you in that role. Yes I imagine it was a lot harder to get the gossip back then!
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No, I hated it. They were the jobs you were given as the noob. we were a small, local paper so we didn’t subscribe to the big wire services and you just had to make your own fun. Plus the town sucked, my girlfriend dumped me and I spent a Conncecticut winter sleeping on a couch. Many reasons to hate the whole experience, really!
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wow I would say so! Can’t see you liking the gossips anyway. Then everything on top of a sucky job. I would have hated it too!
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This is really good. Terrific descriptions!
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Thank you! glad you enjoyed it!
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