Friday Fictioneers – Monochrome Encounter

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot

Anything might lurk in this fog. I call and my voice rebounds, as if baffled by solid cliffs. Should I be scared or, perhaps, awed by the austere serenity? All colour has bled from the world. Maybe I’m adrift in some old newsreel as the boys march soundlessly off.

A voice, not my own, cries back as the ghost of a fishing smack manifests momentarily. The words are muffled and unintelligible. “Ho,” I shout.

Someone from the boat waves. Or I believe they waved—it may have just been a trick of eddying air.

“Godspeed,” I whisper. And it’s enough.

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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

41 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Monochrome Encounter”

      1. A lovely story Neil. By coincidence I’ve just this morning read – in Guy Shrubsole’s The Lost Rainforests of Britain’ – of Phantom Precipitation. Sounds spooky – but actually mist or fog too fine to register as rain.

        Les

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  19. A very atmospheric and mysterious piece. The writing was excellent and many caught my attention – “colour has bled from the world. Maybe I’m adrift in some old newsreel” – awesome!

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