When things started falling upwards, I knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary day. The colander and the beer tankard whirled above my head, making a tiny planetary system.
If life gives you lemons, as they say, make lemonade. I spread my arms and prepared to float into the roof lantern. We’ve all dreamed of flying, right? But my feet remained planted.
That’s my failing. If there’s a rule, I obey it. The law of gravity held me sullen in its grip as the cat began slowly to ascend the blue dome of the sky.
Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
Neil MacDonald Author 
Lovely take, I like the idea of those items floating. A shame he was so closed off he couldn’t join them.
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Thanks, Iain. Breaking the law of gravity is a serious step. The penalties can be severe
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Up, up and away!
Fun story, Neil, with an interesting thought behind it
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Thanks so much
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This is an interesting take on the prompt. Now I am curious as to what is causing objects to fly …
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Disobedience
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Drugs. The good stuff? 😀. Or as Pennywise said “we all float here”.
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Nothing so bizarre. Simply disobedience to the laws of nature. The police will arrive soon
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The tales the police could tell…
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Dear Neil,
How does one NOT obey the rules of gravity? Fun and fanciful story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle, For instructions on flying, please see Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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LOL It just so happens I’m on the second book of Mr. Douglas’ five volume trilogy. 😉
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It’s only the second book in some dimensional frameworks
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Love this idea. Well done.
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Thanks so much Joshua. I had fun with it
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I’ve tried to be disobedient and have been so distracted that I forgot to fall, but the ground has never been so distracted, since it always rapidly raises up to meet me as I hang in the air…
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You’re half way there. Keep practicing on the ground control
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I’ll keep trying. BTW, I liked your story and the references to HGttG in all of the comments.
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I told you to stay away from those ‘shrooms. They bite! Great story! When you see the cat float back to earth, let me know. Haha!
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Thanks so much. The cat is slowly descening the other side of the dome now
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hehe!
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Oh, that’s fun! Maybe it’s a matter of … um … mass? 😉
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Thanks so much. Mass? Or perhaps density
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I was meaning, mass as in … um … heft. 😉 Ya know, a kitty might float where an adult human might not … (yet? perhaps gravity is being gradually lifted … or, the cat had swallowed some metal … if it’s magnetic power … ) 😉
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Yes, I understood
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😉 I thought you had … 😉
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I guess he just didn’t have it in him to be disobedient. Methinks he shall be the better for it 😉
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It’s his nature
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Sounds like some dreams I’ve had. He can turn on the invisibility cloak when authorities arrive.
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Good thinking!
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Thanks, Neil.
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Well, that must be pretty disappointing for him!
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I think he’s resigned to it
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I’m never going on a plane again in case I break the law! Worrying!
Here’s my story.
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It’s only against the law if you fly under your own steam
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A fanciful, enjoyable story, Neil. It’s good there’s a ceiling or we’d have more junk floating around in space to collide with. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Thanks so much, Suzanne
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May be you should have defied the rule and gone with everything else. After all, there was the bear tankard floating in the sky.
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Maybe, but he’s not that sort of person
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Definitely not the spontaneous type.
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Nope. Spontaneity is just another name for chaos
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That little gem of a story made me laugh out loud – twice! Well done – and thank you!
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No. Thank you
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You might have been lucky – what if you kept floating upwards and ran out of air?
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But the sky’s a bowl over the land
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What an interesting fantasy world. Being stuck because of rules you can’t help but believe in is a clever idea
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Thanks so much, Laurie
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I always wondered; if the world stopped spinning would everyone move to the light side?
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Only the good ones. The bad ones would move to the dark side
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Yes, of course.
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Aw, too bad he couldn’t do a Peter Pan and join the other floaters. You painted a fascinating picture, James.
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Thanks so much, Linda
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Sorry–Neil! I knew that 🙂
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No problem
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Oh I really liked this, sad he can’t get up there with the utensils, i’d be gutted myself too!
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He’d like to, he really would. But it’s forbidden
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You made me smile as I loved how the cat got to fly, and not the human,
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Cats have a poorly developed moral sense and don’t realise it contravenes the law of gravity.
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That darn gravity, always shackling us down. Great take on the prompt.
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Thanks so much, Kelly. At least it’s easier to write than in zero gravity
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That was my first impression of this photo as well: that the objects were floating in space.
I love the physical restraints that accompany your character’s rule-bound nature. Taking that attribute to the extreme, where he is the only character so restrained, I can see a comedy growing from this tiny seedling.
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I did see this as a comedy
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Gravity of one — that could be a band name I think
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Thanks for reading, Bjorn
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A flying cat and a human who won’t defy gravity. Frightfully fanciful, Neil. 🙂
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Thanks, Natasha
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This is so imaginative. Fun read!
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Thanks so much, Dawn
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