FRIDAY FICTIONEERS!-18 APRIL 2014

FRIDAY FICTIONEERS!-18 APRIL 2014

 

 

Copyright D McIlroy

Fiction

word count- 101

Memories

Forlorn grandmother sitting in a chair at old age home, suddenly smiles visualizing her two grandchildren, a boys and a girl playing their favorite game ‘ Mermaids in trouble’.

They took all the cushions and hid under them, as if trapped inside the sea reefs, while she, forced by them to join the game, wearing a sea diver’s mask pretended to save them.

Their favorite part was her feigning that the damn mask obstructed her view, run here and there clumsily and fall on them; they will roll over each other on the floor laughing hysterically.

How she longs those days.

Weekly Photo Challenge- On Top

Weekly Photo Challenge- On Top- On top can be a feeling, a perspective, or a physical location.

 

IT’s crazy how littlest acts of kindness make me feel like I’m on top of the world. Life is beautiful.

 Unknown quotes  

 

Today is just one of those days when I feel on top of the world.

 Unknown quotes  

Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world.

 The Beach Boys quotes  

 

It can be a feeling, a perspective, or a physical location — share a photo that says “On Top.”

 

ESE’ S WEEKLY SHOOT&QUOTE CHALLENGE – WHOLE

ESE’ S WEEKLY SHOOT&QUOTE CHALLENGE – WHOLE

Even after all this time, 

The sun never says to the earth, 

” You owe me.”

Look what happens with a love like that.

It lights the whole sky.

- Hafiz of Persia

Making a person smile can change the world- may be not the whole world, but their world.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change.

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Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.- Roger Caras

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge- Monument

Weekly Photo Challenge- Monument

Gateway of India

The Gateway of India is a monument built during the British Raj in Mumbai, India. It is located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai and overlooks the Arabian Sea. The structure is a basalt arch, 26 metres high.    Wikipedia

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The Taj Mahal Palace

The history of Mumbai and The Taj Mahal Palace are dramatically intertwined. The hotel is Mumbai’s first harbour landmark (built 21 years before the Gateway of India) and the site of the first licensed bar in the city. For more than a century, the Taj has played an intrinsic part in the life of the city, hosting Maharajas, dignitaries and eminent personalities from across the globe. Today it is a Leading Hotel of the World and favourite destination for discerning business travellers.

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Victory at Sea, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Victory at Sea War Memorial was built in the year 1996 to commemorate the Victory of Indian Navy’s Eastern Naval Command(ENC) headquartered at Visakhapatnam in 1971 against Pakistan Navy. ENC successfully sank Pakistani Submarine, Ghazi in 1971, which ventured into the territorial waters in an attempt to attack the Naval base in Vizag during the Indo-Pak war.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyday is Friendship Day

Somewhere in life

There must be someone

To take your hand

And share the torride day.

Without the touch of friendship

There is no life, and we must fade away.

- RUSKIN BOND

Sourse- Healing into Wholeness

My take on friends and friendship

What are friends there for ?

If not for 

Care, concern and adulation

For being comfortable

In silence and communication

For supporting each other

In every difficult situation

For helping each other

Without humiliation

For accepting each other

Without any discrimination.

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Some Haiku(s) 

1- Friendship can unite

     Different species together

     Miraculous bond

2- True friend and friendship

     Most rare and valuable gift

     Treasure it with care

3- Love, trust, compassion

    Synonymous with friendship

    True friends are a bliss 

4-  If all religions 

      Shed their animosity

       Friendliness survives

5- Who cares for color

     When bond of love is strong

     Friendship matters more

 

Size does not matter

Caste and creed may be different

Friendship cares for none

Friends! What’s your take on friendship, share with me .

 

Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 34

Cee’s photography.com/ Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 34

Looking down- Aerial view of Visakhapatnam city

 

 

 

 

Five Sentence Fiction – Whimsical

Five Sentence Fiction – Whimsical

Whimsyland

My husband brought me to this place ‘Whimsy land’  to have fun as I always complain of living a boring life, now here  I can dance with the clouds, fly with the butterflies, play with the dolphins or whatever damned activities I can think off and now I should be thankful to him for fulfilling my dreams.

 I have to live here alone for a few days as he has some urgent work to complete then he will come back and take me back.

 It is one month passed and he has not yet come back.

 The staff here said that it is a mental asylum where rich people leave their burdens and pay a good some for that and now I’m to live here forever.

 I’m not complaining as it’s better here as compared to his ‘all work and no fun’ gloomy house which was like a tomb,I’m having lots of fun with the inmates.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Yellow

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Yellow

 

 

 

 

ESE’ S WEEKLY SHOOT&QUOTE CHALLENGE – WINGS

ESE’ S WEEKLY SHOOT&QUOTE CHALLENGE – WINGS

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Rumi

 

 

Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

 

 

The butterfly doesn’t know how long he has to live, but that doesn’t stop him from spreading his wings and his joy.
Ash Sweeney quotes

 

 

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Edward E. Barnard

Photo source- Healing into Wholeness

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

― Dalai Lama XIV

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

- A threshold is a point of entering; that point just before a new beginning — that split-second moment in time, full of anticipation. All the hard work is over; relief is palpable. 2- a level or point at which something is about to begin.