Friday Fictioneers – Sadie

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson

Sadie had character, I’ll give her that.

“OK, I’m no looker,” she’d say, “but folk never forget me.”

Idiosyncracy sprouted on that woman like barnacles on a rusting hulk. For the longest time, I believed they were affectations and disdained Sadie. Stop trying so hard and just be yourself, for chrissakes, I’d mutter.

Only gradually did I come to realise this was her true self: disheveled clown, eccentric mimic of opinions and garbs, eclectic jigsaw of habits.

In May, I bought the ring and went down on one knee. “Marry me?”

“Hell, no.”

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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

37 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Sadie”

  3. Sadie said no. That must have been sad for him.

    Glad he tried anyway after realising and accepting her as she is.

    Now hope she realises that here is someone who truly loves her- that’s why he’s proposing! 🙂

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  5. Oh, I love it! I wouldn’t have married him either 🙂 Even when he began to understand her, he wasn’t too complimentary. I also love the way you describe her. Colorful character, but better off on her own.

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