It’s Sunday. Time for another flash fiction challenge at Alastair’s Photo Fiction. below is the photo prompt for this week: Join in the fun, just click on the link for details!
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It was a private room. Her special retreat. A room where she stored her first invention. So proud she’d been, that day. A simple thing, and not the first by any means, but these particular gears had a special quality to them. And the subsequent chain of events which had followed her invention, never far from her mind. Especially today – the anniversary. Some people had called it magic. The scientists had been baffled. She didn’t know either but tried not to dwell on these things, unsuccessfully!
Today, she stood inside this hidden room remembering with disbelief her many yesterdays, thinking on her tomorrows of eternity. A secret she wasn’t aware of buried deep in her soul. She didn’t know how it could have happened, but it had.
But the price paid, unimaginable!
One thousand years had passed since that fateful day the gears of motion had made her immortal!
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(150 words)
To find out what happened to our inventor on that first day, stay tuned for my next post for this week’s Haibun Challenge. The word prompt is Anniversary! This is my way of encouraging writers to enter both of these wonderful writing challenges! So much fun and very rewarding!
~ Penny
The Why About This 
Intriguing
Certainly different isn’t it! 🙂
Moving on to the next installment now. 🙂
Oooooh – must go visit part two.
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I was hoping for an edge of a seat like reaction RoSy! 🙂 xo
Great story.. love it..
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It was lovely reading both these posts on the same day. Good writing indeed
Thank you Padmini! It took a little bit to combine but after that, most enjoyable employing the written word!
Me too – what Alastair said lol.
Hey, Penny, that Haibun thing…is that anything like a creambun?
No, but what a great idea though! 🙂 xx
I’m eager to find out, Penny! I’ll be waiting! 🙂
Oh good, hope you like it Lauren! 🙂 xx
Imagination, creativity, and a genius with words.
Unsurpassable.
Thank you so very much. I am appreciative, whole bunches! 🙂 xo
you have me hooked..! I’ll be waiting!
Take Care…
Thank you, I hope not to disappoint. Take care of you also!
Sounds intriguing. Thought about the Haibun thing but I’m not sure about the little bit of poetry at the end. Not really my thing. I’m a strictly stories man!
Yes Paul, the little bits of poetry can be interesting to wrap ones metaphoric arms around. I understand perfectly. You are a very good stories man indeed! 🙂
I look forward to seeing part two of this. 🙂
Thanks, this is fun, I love to do different things creatively! 🙂
It is amazing how you did it. Nothing is given away until part two
Thank you, that had been my goal. I wanted each piece to stand alone, representative for each of the challenges but come together in the end! 🙂
Which you did brilliantly and they did 😀