Friday Fictioneers – Imaginary Islands

~ neilmacdon
PHOTO PROMPT © Brenda Cox

We could be anywhere—ocean stretching from horizon to horizon. The sun beats down in a featureless sky, shards of light dancing on little waves. Our small outrigger is lost, and I’m scared.

The old navigator points away to the left. “Guam.” And to the right, “Lizard’s Pool.”

“What’s Lizard’s Pool?” I ask.

He grins, hiding a private joke. “No such place.”

“Then how can you navigate by it?”

“Can’t see Guam either, right? The gods didn’t trouble to put an island there, so we must invent it.”

And we sail on, steering the trackless Pacific by imaginary islands.

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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

48 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Imaginary Islands”

  7. I’d have to say being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a small vessel would be terrifying at best. Thank goodness one of them can take their minds off of the reality. Good dialogue.

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