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Fiction Friday: Primary Colors

Posted on February 20, 2015 by treshabarger

Friday Fictioneers challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Friday Fictioneer prompt. Copyright Marie Gail Stratford

Primary Colors

Blue, yellow, red. Helios has no imagination, Eos sighed. Their parents gave him a whole planet to play with and he uses only primary colors? She picked up the brush and spent the new few millennia mixing hues, putting them all over her brother’s planet.

Helios returned. “What are you doing?” he yelled. “Crystals are not supposed to be purple!”

Eos laughed. “You mean amethyst?”

He picked up the canvas and threw it at her. The paint dripped all over her robe, and forever more all sunrises in the universe were streaked with pink, peach, blue, violet, orange and red.

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14 thoughts on “Fiction Friday: Primary Colors”

afairymind on February 20, 2015 at 4:17 am said:

Love a bit of Greek mythology. Good story. 🙂

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Sandra on February 20, 2015 at 6:45 am said:

Very inventive. Good job.

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Nan Falkner on February 20, 2015 at 7:39 am said:

Clever and I’m glad that the colors changed for the better! Nan 🙂

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- treshabarger on February 20, 2015 at 10:55 am said:
  
  The more colors, the better, right?
  
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crazybasenji on February 20, 2015 at 9:55 am said:

See, you knew that color mixing class would come in handy one day!

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karen rawson on February 20, 2015 at 12:21 pm said:

The mythology is a great take on the prompt. Nicely done!

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- treshabarger on February 20, 2015 at 12:41 pm said:
  
  Thanks! I enjoyed researching the different mythologies, looking for one that I could make fit my story idea.
  
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Kathy Waller on February 20, 2015 at 1:15 pm said:

Extraordinary story.

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Sonya on February 20, 2015 at 3:39 pm said:

Oooh, brilliant use of the prompt! Love the story 🙂

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Priceless Joy on February 20, 2015 at 7:27 pm said:

Very creative and enjoyable.

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milliethom on February 22, 2015 at 9:29 am said:

I love this. It’s so descriptive and the references to Greek mythology are perfect. Lovely description of the colours of sunrises. And all with a touch of humour. Well written. 🙂

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- treshabarger on February 22, 2015 at 10:07 am said:
  
  Thank you! I had fun working on a story where I could include Eos and Helios.
  
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  - milliethom on February 22, 2015 at 10:08 am said:
    
    Greek mythology is wonderful and you got those two in really well. 🙂
rochellewisoff on February 24, 2015 at 3:19 am said:

Dear Tresha,

I’m glad that sunsets didn’t end up being primary colors. Clever story.

Shalom,

Rochelle

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