Friday Fictioneers ✮ Flash Fiction 100 words ✮ The Redemption of Black Ice

When I get the time (the big “when”), I love writing short stories. So what better than to write some flash fiction, which is very short stories. Not long ago I discovered Friday Fictioneers, hosted by an author, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Each week she posts a photograph and writers are invited to contribute a complete piece of short fiction of 100 words or less using the picture as inspiration. No easy task, but a fantastic challenge.

Photo Credit © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The Redemption of Black Ice

I’ve been absent ever since, they say. In my own world. Polite ways of saying having a breakdown.

But then: I was driving, too fast, along the snowy road. I saw you, clear as day, in the rearview mirror.

‘Stop,’ you said.

I slammed on the brake, heart pounding in my ears. The car swerved, wing mirror cuffing a low-hanging branch.

I scrambled outside, frozen wind wailing. And there, a patch of black ice, spreading like a stain across the road.

 

When you died, you broke my heart. But saving my life now, perhaps you’re helping me to start mending it again?

6 replies
  1. Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
    Rochelle Wisoff-Fields says:

    Dear Rebecca,

    Lovely story, full of pathos and backstory layered between the lines. Nicely done.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

    Reply
  2. Russell
    Russell says:

    We used to have a book called Angels Among Us. This story sounds like one of those. Now that she knows he’s watching over her she can move on with confidence.

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