Friday Fictioneers – Lights in the Sky

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Liz Young

Once, lights in the sky would have been a delight and a wonder. She remembered the heart-stopping showers of sparkles at Eid-al-Fitr. Last night, there were lights too, and showers of sparkles, bangs and thuds. She had cowered in the doorframe with her mother and hidden her eyes from the lights tearing the darkness into shreds.

In dawn’s light, the whole building next door was gone. The bakery gone, though the bread had already run out. Sami gone, and his brothers and sisters, father, mother, aunt.

How could people be so cruel? Especially this people, who should understand suffering better than any?

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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

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