The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Sarah Potter
Spring Into Action
First day of spring; Arthur’s favorite day of the year. People who make resolutions in January are idiots, he decided. He believed the first day of spring is the day to renew, recharge one’s soul.
Getting out of bed, he changed into his running clothes, looking forward to arriving at the park just before dawn, greeting the sun as it peeked over the horizon. As he opened the door, snowflakes from a late winter storm blew into Arthur’s face, hinting at the brutal bleakness waiting for him, should he go outside.
Good grief, Arthur thought. I’m going back to bed.
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I think I’d go back to bed too!
I love the tone of this. Too funny!
This was a fun character study in one hundred words. The tone was really funny.
Haha, good choice!
So much for good intentions! And one must be careful in some regions… first day of spring does NOT mean sunshine and flowers every year!
So true. Mother Nature follows her own calendar, not ours.
Ha, nicely done. His new start didn’t last long 🙂
I’m with Arthur – health and fitness can be taken too far.
Climate change is turning the seasons into liars.
Talk about wimping out! He should get out and build a snowman.
He probably doesn’t know where his gloves are. Poor planning on his part.
Yeah. Or overwhelming optimism. Maybe he was a southerner?
I remember a news report back when I was a teen. Freak snowstorm in Florida, the first time in ten years. Traffic came to a stop, no one got to work, businesses were closed for the day. Folks were out playing in the snow and building snowmen. This made us Canucks smile— we’d be playing for six months at that rate. 🙂
Hehe, that is too funny. So much for good intentions. January or Spring, no difference.
True. His good intentions didn’t get him past the front door.