NEW BEGINNINGS

Update on 17/09/18

My story was published in the Carrot Ranch collection for this photo prompt – see Part II – penultimate story.  Many thanks to Charli and all the ranch leaders and all who took part. What an epic collection of 99 word flash fiction.

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This weeks flash fiction challenge over at the Carrot Ranch is to write about an epic workplace – real or imagined in ninety-nine words exactly.

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NEW BEGINNINGS

by

Kelvin M. Knight

Blades of grass lifted the stones like they were grains of sand – stones bigger than me. Walking over this grass, I felt as though I were walking on springs – those metallic contraptions Father used to create timepieces – despite time measuring being forbidden.

‘Forbidden yet fantastical.’ These words flowed from a forest whose leaves rose into the sky, over and over, like rippling water.

Ignoring them, I sat crosslegged and thought, Hullo, I’m your new apprentice.

‘I know.’ A man appeared before me brandishing two crystal balls.

‘For me?’

‘For yours. For mine.’ Laying them at my feet, he disappeared.

(99 words)