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Friday Fictioneers ———— Traffic

This week’s Friday Fictioneer’s photo prompt is a bit fishy. Go to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ excellent blog to see all the entries and to participate yourself. Why not? It’s fun.

Here is Bumba’s entry, which is even fishier than the picture.

As I drove along the 105 I pondered the phenomenon that everyone stayed in their lanes and obeyed all the rules. What with all the crazy, unmanageable, half-criminal types out there, you can nonetheless rely on them to stop at stop signs and red lights. It must be some universal conformity principle, some genetically ingrained social instinct that keeps them in line, keeps them from wandering too far…. Keeps us from….keeps us from ….from …..

Here the narrative is interrupted by the following police report:

Date 10/30/13: Man killed on 105 freeway. Cause of death: wandered out of lane.

Friday Fictioneers

Here’s the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer challenge, which I confess I haven’t done for a good month of Fridays…Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields.

Marcus staggered toward the farmhouse. Since last night he had barely stopped running. Perhaps he could lie down for an hour. Maybe pick up some food. Quietly he slipped inside the musty barn. He was greeted by a small child.

“Who are you?”

“Oh, my name is Marcus.”

“I’m Samantha”

“Samantha, do you have any food? I mean does your Mom…”

“Sure. We had pancakes for breakfast.”

“Pancakes.”

“Yes! You want maple syrup?”

“Maple syrup…. Yes, Samantha”

Marcus lay down on a small pile of straw.

Most likely this would be his last meal, he thought.