Time again for the addictive Friday Fictioneers, hosted by the lovely purple addicted (and Friday Fictioneer addicted) Rochelle Wiseoff Fields. For more information for this challenge or should you like to join the rest of us addicts, please click on Rochelle’s blog:
Rochelle Wiseoff Fields – Addicted to Purple
This photo, copyright to Jan Wayne Fields, is the prompt for our story this week, of 100 words or less.
The laborious work of keeping up with farm chores, became too difficult for my husband and me, in our golden years. After many years of gardening, canning the vegetables, milking the cows, keeping the cattle out of the alfapha, we decided it was time to move to the city.
Our youngest daughter and son moved to the city with us. After a few months of this concrete jungle, she moved out and sadly, we haven’t heard from her since.
Setting the table, I see the bright red flowers through the window, and set an extra plate for her.
100 Words
BEAUTIFUL WORDS 
Nice and dramatic in only 100 words! Great! Communicate sadness and frustration! It goes perfectly with the pic! Well done!
Thank you so much Franny! It was fun to write. 🙂
You conveyed so much in so few words. Great job!
Thank you Joy! It was fun to write. Why don’t you join? 🙂
I hope she found her way home..nicely done
My hope (for the story) is that one day she will. 🙂 Thanks for reading!
Love always hopes, doesn’t it? I hope hers is rewarded one day soon. (Just FYI, in that first sentence, it would be “for my husband and me.” Hope you don’t mind me mentioning it.)
janet
Thank you! No I don’t mind you mentioning it at all because I realized that after (of course) I had published it. Then I got busy reading everyone’s stories I forgot to go in and change it. 🙂
i think i hear somebody knocking at the door. it’s her. she finds her way back. 🙂
Yay!!! I was hoping for that!! 🙂
A tale of hope and resignation. You made the reader hope she comes, which is good.
Thank you Sandra. I was hoping the reader would become part of the story. 🙂
You have to have hope.
Yes, I think so!
I hope one day that place at the table will be filled again.
Yes, me too. I think it will be. Maybe they will need to set an extra place setting for her husband, or husband and child??
This has a good upward note of hope with the flowers and the fourth place setting.
Yes! Thank you for reading. 🙂
Well done! ^..^
Thank you so much!! That makes me feel good. 🙂
Hope springs eternal. May she return soon.
Yes, she will. Probably with a husband and a baby. 🙂
Dear Joy,
It’s sad when families split apart like this. I’m reminded of a friend who is estranged from one of her children. She doesn’t say much about how much it hurts but I know it does.
Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
PS There’s no ‘e’ in Wisoff. 😉 Although I had a teacher that used to call me ‘Wise-off’ on purpose.
I am constantly catching myself trying to put an e in your name. This time I didn’t catch it.
Thank you for reminding me.
Joy,
I hope the daughter comes home soon to see her place at the table.
All my best,
Marie Gail
I think she will. The flowers say so. 🙂 LOL
Marie Gail are we going to get a photo prompt for Friday Fictioneers for this week? The way WP has been I wasn’t sure if I just didn’t receive the email. Thank you.
Joy, this is the prompt for today, Friday the 16th. Rochelle posts the prompt every Wednesday so participants have time to view and contemplate it before posting. Of course, that doesn’t always happen. 😉 I don’t know anything about the emails being unreliable as I just follow bloggers on WordPress but opt out of the email option.
Does that answer your question?
MG
You said “this is the prompt for today.” Do you mean your gravatar or her post about the Beatles?
Hi again Gail Marie, I just went into tags and you’re right, we just wrote the F.F. Sorry, it seemed to me we wrote about that last week. lol
Nicely done. “laborious work… farm chores…” how true and then the watching the red flowers… missing the farming life and assisting things to grow? Enjoyed the read.
Thank you! I’m so glad you liked it!
Beautiful story of sadness and hope, lovely.
Thank you so much. 🙂
Those red flowers and no other color in the photo. I like the way you did something with that 🙂
Ellespeth
Thank you very much. I almost didn’t see them and was just about to publish what I had written when I noticed the flowers. So I just “had” to change my story to include them.
Oh, I sure hope she comes home to see her family. She wouldn’t want to miss out on such a lovely dinner. Something about flowers makes it more hopeful. Great story and take!
Yes, you are absolutely right! It is like a bright ray of hope. Thank you for reading and for your input. 🙂
Good story, Joy. It was sad, but you left a place for hope at the end. Good descriptions. Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thank you Suzanne! I appreciate your opinion!!
Nicely told Joy. i think we all hope that she finds her way back to her family.
Dee
I don’t know about you but those red flowers out in the courtyard give me plenty of hope. 🙂 Thank you for reading and commenting!!
Lovely story with a sad twist. Well done.
Cheers
KT
Thank you very much. 🙂