Word count: 100
“What’s that?”
“What’s what?”
“That wooden thingie.”
“A flute case?”
“Flute cases don’t have holes.”
“Those look like holes you stick little thingies into.”
“What kind of thingies?”
“Little thingies. They’re called, like, widgets.”
“But what’s the wooden thingie for?”
“It looks like part of a game.”
“We need one of those books. Like a backwards dictionary. Where you look up a picture.”
“How do you look up a picture?”
“Well, there’s some kind of book where you can do that.”
“What’s it called?”
“Wait! I remember. The game. My aunt plays it. It’s called ‘cabbage.’”
“We need a librarian.”
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FRIDAY FICTIONEERS is a weekly challenge to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. To read other Friday Fictioneers’ stories, click on the frog. To participate, find the rules and the photo prompt at Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ blog.
M. K. Waller 