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Four Line Fiction (2408)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Christopher Payne from his book “Made In America

In this week’s image an army of Peeps marshmallow chicks snake along a conveyor belt, cooling as they march towards packaging (unseen) in a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania factory.

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Four Line Fiction (2406)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters

This week’s image shows a rebel fighter standing on a platform inspecting an artillery cannon. The soldier’s head is fully hidden inside the barrel as another rebel looks on with a shell flung over his right shoulder.

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Four Line Fiction (2404)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Shannon Stapleton/Newscom/Reuters

In this week’s symmetrical image, a woman walks across a slush covered Brooklyn Bridge with her back to the camera. She is holding a purple umbrella, which stands out against the near monochromatic background, to shield herself from the falling snow.

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Out of Control

Out of Control

Fast and furious, consumed by a fire intentionally set to burn out of control. For three weeks we ate, slept, and breathed each other, we couldn’t get enough. Leading us here, all hopped up on adrenaline and desire in a log cabin on the edge of nowhere.

It started with no expectations, just a chance meeting in that little coffee shop on West 92nd. She caught me staring at her as she flipped her head nonchalantly in my direction. Like a deer caught in the headlights, all I could do was shoot her a smile. It must have been something special because it pierced her heart with an accuracy that would have impressed Cupid. Before we could even process the tidal wave that engulfed us both, we were tangled in each other’s arms, like bramble left to grow wild.

It wasn’t just sex either, it was more. Visceral and at the same time intellectual. Intensely passionate yet soft and meandering. Physical yet vibrating on a higher plane.

But as fires burn they mellow. Without more fuel they fade and eventually the last embers blink out. I could have handled that, even anticipated sifting through the ashes but who could have foreseen its abrupt end? The ring of her phone sucking all traces of oxygen from the room. The flames extinguished in a suffocating instant.

I’m left to watch through the window as she sits like a ghost on the edge of the dock. I don’t know who called or what was spoken but as I watch her in the breeze, I can feel the moment slipping away. Dissolving into the landscape one grain at a time. By sunrise, she will be gone…


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Four Line Fiction (2402)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

In this week’s image, a child leads a giant dinosaur puppet across a busy Edinburgh Street as traffic waits.

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Four Line Fiction (2352)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Unknown

This week’s image is a pair of Keen (no I am not receiving any kind of advertising revenue) hiking boots that are walking on air about six inches above the trail. Furthermore, there is no one wearing the brown leather boots with clean black soles. Well perhaps the invisible man, but that is unconfirmed.

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Four Line Fiction (2350)

Season’s greetings from Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. May the holidays bring joy and happiness to you and your families.

The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. As this is the last #gb4lf post before Christmas, this week’s image is in line with the season…

Image: Unknown

This week’s image is an evening winter scene. A pair of carrot nosed snowmen, possibly father and son, are dressed in blue scarves and hats standing outside a white picket fence and next to an old tree that is partially obscuring a small house filled with light in the background. To the left, a mailbox sits next to a gate adorned with a Christmas wreath and a glowing lantern hanging from the trellis above.

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Four Line Fiction (2348)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. This is the third installment since its return and the image this week is extremely compelling as is the story that accompanies it. The concept for the challenge remains the same. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. Without further adieu, this weeks image…

Image: Unknown

November 12th, 1833 is known at “The Night the Stars Fell.” On that night a meteor shower blanketed North America with an astonishing display. One Illinois newspaper described the sky as “being ablaze” another from Alabama eloquently described the event as “Thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” It is estimated some 72,000 meteors fell from the heavens per hour. Today we know the November meteor event as the Leonids. It occurs as every year as Earth passes through debris left in the wake of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. The display peaks in intensity every 33 years though none have rivaled the 1833 event.

This week’s image is taken from a hand drawn newspaper image from the period. The image shows settlers from a small town looking up into the heavens as shooting stars fill the night sky, like rain falling from above.

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Four Line Fiction (2346)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. It has been difficult to keep up with this feature that disappeared mid-summer. I brought it back two weeks ago as a bi-weekly but with a promotion at work and other commitments it is dropping two days late this week. My apologies to all those who follow along. It will return to its normal Tuesday 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) time slot two weeks from now.

The concept is the same. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.

Image: Unknown

This week’s image depicts a storefront at night. The first letter of store’s sign is not working while the remaining portion of the blue illuminated sign poses the question “ARE FEET SHOES?”

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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Four Line Fiction (2344)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge re-launch. It has been difficult to keep up with this feature that disappeared mid-summer. I am bringing it back but will now run every other week in the same 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) time slot. The concept will be the same as previous. I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.

Image: Abandon Houses / Abandon, Decaying and Forgotten Group – Facebook

This week’s image depicts a abandon home slowly decaying into its surroundings. The monochromatic scene is offset by red 1960s/70s style Volkswagen Beetle windows busted out and rusting in the foreground.

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.

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