Hello, beautiful readers! This week, Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge provides us with the photo below and encourages us to write flash fiction or poetry based on it. I chose to write a haibun, which is a combination of a paragraph of prose and a haiku. The prose tends to be non-fictional or autobiographical, but mine is definitely fictional.
(image credit; Toa Heftiba on Unsplash)
Consequential Choices
He stands frozen in place, staring at a woman's purse, with its scattered belongings. The paramedics hoist the dead woman's body into the back of the ambulance. His brain says to collect the purse and give it to them so her family can have it. But he can't move, can't stop staring at the purse, a purse that belongs to a young woman. A woman that will never hold it again because he was too busy sending a text instead of watching the road.
tragic distractions
tornadic consequences
treasured life destroyed
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Oh no! A tragic turn of events. An important message, that it is important to focus on the road, not our phones.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Melissa! All I kept thinking about was who owned the purse, but the shoes look more like men's shoes to me, so this idea came to me, and I went with it. Thanks for stopping by. :-)
DeleteI enjoyed reading this. Love the haiku. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cai! Haiku are supposed to focus on nature, so I threw in a tornado to bring in nature. Lol! Thanks for visiting! :-)
DeleteA tragic truth! Fantastic poem, Yvette.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jan! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
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