I haven’t been around much lately, but I’m here today because I can’t miss my favorite Friday Fictioneers! Come join us or just read some outstanding writing by the various writers who all write a 100 word story about the same picture. Enjoy!
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the lady in charge, visit her blog and read the few rules we go by when writing these stories. Or scroll down and click on the little blue guy to read what the other writers have done!
THE CHALLENGE:
Write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and an end. (No one will be ostracized for going over or under the word count.)
THE KEY:
Make every word count.
Genre/Steampunk (100 words)
Gloved hands on hips, she stood over her latest creation. Walking around it her leather apron scarred, aged, supple, hit her stripped panted shins softly.
She nodded her head in approval. Taking off the pink welder’s helmet she tossed it aside. This was going to be her best invention yet. Looking like a mess of bolts, nuts, gears, beauty in rusted splendor.
Sitting in the ancient tractor seat she pushed the button to turn on “Prof. Sophronia K. Rowbotham’s Flying Machine”. Rumbling came from the engine under the seat, rising slowly the machine gave a whisper of noise as it suddenly shot forward!
The Last Chapter 
Man, i’m tempted to give in to this week’s Friday Fictioneers! Nice work!
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please do! Thank you 🙂
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Jackie, wouldn’t it be fun to have something like this actually fly, although I don’t know that I’d want it to go too high? I imagine her having to pedal, though, which I doubt is the way you envisioned it. 🙂 Love the pink welder’s helmet.
janet
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I thought it would be great to have it fly, so much fun! Even if she pedaled it would be great. 🙂 Thanks for reading!
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Jackie, thank you so much for keying me into Friday Fictioneers and your flash fiction. I liked the image of the inventor and that you chose to make her a woman! I like the steampunk take on it and the flight of the rusty machine. I’m looking forward to joining the group and sharing my own impressions. This is a great exercise.
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You are so very welcome Pamela! I do hope you will join. I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I do. As I said, the other writers are very nice and helpful and they write great stories themselves. Good to have you! It is a wonderful way of honing your writing abilities. I’ve learned so much in the past few months and it has helped me in my other writing.
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Oh I like this one. Yours is way more Steam punk than mine and I love it. One thing stripped panted chins? Shins? Other than that I still love it.
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oh crap, that chins got by me. ha! Glad you pointed it out. I will have to go read yours too, I love steampunk stuff. I need to go correct mine now. 😉
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I can see her stading there but obviously the photographer missed her 🙂 great story again! Good luck with your move.
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dumb photographer! haha! 🙂 Thank you Tiny! I will be back on schedule after this move. I am so tired I need a vacation!
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I always look forward to your Friday work … and you came through again.
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Thank you very much Frank! After this moving business is done I will be visiting you on a regular basis again. 🙂
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No problem …. after all, moving is such a draining event.
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Isn’t it though? It’s been so many years since I really moved a whole house full of stuff. Believe me I am throwing out lots! 😉
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Then again, that’s one of the benefits of moving.
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“Gloved hands on hip.”
I loved this line. A girl, through and through… 🙂
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Oh yeah! Women can do anything! Thanks for reading 🙂
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And it works!! A wonderful story. I saw her admiring her work clearly from your writing. Well done.
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thank you very much Kim! Glad you enjoyed.
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Really cool JACKIE PPPPP. I could see that little hottie in my head. Working a blowtorch no less! Great job! Loved it!
TOM PPPPPP
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Tom PPPPP! Looked for your story didn’t find the link?? Glad you liked mine. We women are nothing if not versatile!
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haven’t heard much of steampunk — will have to check it out.
A good story.Do we deny our true nature when we dream of the sky?
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I really enjoy Steampunk, it’s a mixture of Victorian and science fiction. This is my first attempt at writing it. Glad you enjoyed it.
I don’t think we deny our true nature when we dream of the sky, I think it’s part of our nature.
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Dear Jackie,
You’re flying high with this story. Pink welding helmet…nice visual. Good job!
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you Rochelle! It just had to be pink somehow. 🙂
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Jackie that was great, I loved the phrase ‘a whisper of noise’, a very imaginative and descriptive story. 🙂
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Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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wouldn’t it be awesome to invent something like that.. and i love the helmet.. its PINK! great story 🙂
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Thank you kz! It had to be pink….. 😉
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First, you made me Google “Prof. Sophronia K. Rowbotham’s Flying Machine” because I wasn’t sure if it already existed somewhere. 😉 Fantastic name. Second, yay for the pink welding helmet. I have to get one of those. Third, very nice visualization. And fourth, I finally hit the button to follow your blog via email. I have no idea why I didn’t do that before!
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haha! I made you google! Steampunk genre is big in names like that, the fancier the better. 😉
Well it just had to be a pink welding helmet, I could see it so well in my mind.
You are a little slow my friend, but I like you, hahaha. I have been following you through email from the beginning. Otherwise I was afraid you’d get lost in the crowd!
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LOL! Slow, yes. I’ve been so frustrated that I don’t always have time to check my reader, and then you post and I miss it. It finally dawned on me to check to see if you have the email thingy. Duh! You won’t get past me now. 🙂
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I’m afraid I haven’t been posting much lately, I have to get this move behind me. Wait till then! I have sooooo many stories floating around in my head it’s almost scary. 🙂 I was thinking of sending off an email to you this weekend.
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Send an email any time. I found a picture that I would love to see you do a 100 word flash fiction for. Someday, when you don’t have so many stories to write, I’ll show you the picture; it’s on a blog. 😉
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oh really? let me know where it is! I love doing flash fiction and now I”m curious. I will send email tonight or in the morning! 🙂
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Of course women can make something like that sculpture. And make it work too, not just stand there being pretty.
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so right!
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pink welder’s helmet, huh? weeelll, okay, then.
cute story, loved the descriptive words and her name
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I have actually known a lady that owned a pink welding helmet. She worked in a garage and was very good at what she did. 😉 Thanks for reading and enjoying.
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Fabulous stuff – I love the fact that it’s a woman (and I love her pink welding helmet) – this week has been a testosterone filled event, so thanks for restoring the balance with a bit of girl power!
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Thanks El! I haven’t been able to go around and read as many as I would like this week, but yes it does seem to be full of testosterone!
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Really like the image of Prof. Sophronia K. Rowbotham (great name) and her marvelous machine slowly rising in the air before they shoot forward. Good visual.
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Thank you vb! I enjoyed writing that one. 🙂
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This still sounds like a safer bet than the lawn chair with a bundle of balloons to lift it into the sky. I am not sure i would sign up for either choice however!
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Where’s your adventurous spirit!? 🙂
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Somewhere in my past I suppose. The possibility of living longer seems a better choice.
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