REMEMBRANCE She takes the tiny key from the chain around her neck and unlocks the box. Taking care not to damage the brittle paper of the letter, she places it gently on the bed and arranges the other contents of the box around it. The single rose has kept its’ colour but is so fragile…
Category: Five Photos – Five Stories Challenge
Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge #4
THE LECTURER It had been another dull lecture, the hotel conference room hot and stuffy despite the air conditioning. Twenty minutes from the end and a number of her colleagues had already discreetly left for the bar or one of the fashionable cafes on the square. She didn’t quite know why she’d stayed, sorry for…
Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge #3
At first she thought it was a mouse scrabbling about in the attic overhead but the longer she lay there listening,the less familiar the sound became. Someone talking to themselves perhaps, the occasional exclamation, even an amused snort of laughter, but all the while accompanied by a strange scratching noise in the background. When she…
Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge #2
COURTESAN She looked into the glass one last time before crossing the bedroom floor to seat herself in composed readiness on the chaise longue. Except that this time she was neither composed nor ready. She had seen it in his eyes the previous evening, a little less sparkle, a little less intoxication. She remembered their…
Five Photos, Five Stories Challenge #1
A little light, a little dark, a little mystery… This is the first of my posts in the ‘Five Photos – Five Stories’ Challenge, thanks to west517 for inviting me to join in! As I am forever composing the beginning paragraphs of short stories in my head I thought perhaps this would be an opportunity to…
View from a French Hillside 