Thank you to Rochelle for bringing us Friday Fictioneers!
(I seem to be having this issue lately of remembering to add my link to the blue frog. Hopefully this too will pass. 🙂 )
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll
Structural Integrity
Once upon a time we spent whatever waking available hours with each other. We discovered each other’s bodies, brains, enjoyed intimacy and discussions, hiked and played like grown children.
Now he uses tweezers to build tiny intricate buildings, carefully gluing structures, painting facades, creating a miniature world complete with lights and moving water while never realizing how the structure that was us erodes a little more each day.
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Categories: Flash Fiction, FRIDAY FICTIONEERS
Wow, that’s depressing. Time to find the nearest exit. Neat clock though.
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lol sometimes I gotta be depressing, that way the funnier bits are better!
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Blimey, how life grinds you down eh? People grow apart and blokes become model builders, i seem to remember wanting to buy the lego death star a few years ago, I didn’t, its a slippery slope!
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It sounds it. Who knows what kind of damage that might have incited!
Thanks for reading! 🙂
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It was a moment of unbridled madness, albino the same lines as reading Harry Potter books
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Reblogged this on Dream Big, Dream Often.
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Thank you so much for the reblog! It’s very appreciated! 🙂
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so good and sadly – this happens to so many couples –
– and the flow of your writing was nice – by the time i got to “replete” I was so engaged
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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🙂
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just realized I had a brain-sieve moment on “replete.” I presume you subtly meant to point it out? 🙂
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not at all – I missed that –
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Oh. Maybe you subconsciously didn’t 😀
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Depressing, but the story of many relationships.
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Thank you, Iain, for reading and commenting.
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Very realistic write.
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thanks so much, Lisa! 🙂
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A brilliant metaphor, Sascha
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Thank you so much, Neil! 🙂
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A hobby-widow. Plenty of realism in your well-written story.
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Thanks, Jilly!
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Relationships, like hobbies, require a great deal of time and effort. Nicely done, Sascha.
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Very true words, Sandra! Thank you so much! 🙂
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Thought provoking and true to life. Nicely constructed story, Sascha.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thank you, Susan! 🙂
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Dear Sascha,
A lot said about a crumbling relationship in few words. Your story is structurally sound in any event. 😉 Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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lol Thanks so much, Rochelle! 🙂
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Taking too much for granted can backfire horribly as your story so clearly shows. The new love fascination can’t last, own interests need to be explored, but letting the together go completely is very sad.
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I watched a guy do this once at an art show. It was very interesting. Thanks for the memory.
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You captured a declining relationship very well.
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