For Safe Keeping (Friday Fictioneers)
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The sound of swearing exploded like a cacophony of birds escaping a snapping crocodile. It had been years since we’d been down the hill behind the old holiday house. My sister climbed out of the bushes and yanked her foot free from the clinging roots. I stifled a laugh. “Be careful.”
Her glare nearly set fire to my sweater. “Is it there?” she spat.
I hadn’t looked. I turned and climbed gingerly into the crumbling outhouse. “The toilet is.”
She laughed… “It would survive the apocalypse.”
I spied the dented, faded blue tin. “It’s here.”
And so were Pop’s medals.
This is a Friday Fictioneers Prompt
word count: 100
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A good bit of secure storage!
Yes indeed. Surprising its still standing
Dear Laurie,
A good place for safe keeping. Not many would go looking in a toilet. 😉 Or would they? Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Haha thank you Rochelle. A fun prompt this week
Loved the descriptions and the dialogue. Great hiding place, for sure…
Thanks Dale. The thing you think are secure as kids rarely are… but sometimes. Who goes into a gross toilet?
Only kids… and maybe people beyond desperate. .😁
Nicely done I could picture the sisters pickering as they slogged through the forest.
Oh yes. Always sniping at each other… in a loving way. 😃
Intriguing story.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
Thank you 😊
Good hiding hole. Presumably they were safe from flushing. Good one.
Thank you. Yes very safe. Very old and no longer works
The blue tin was there and so the medals – Thank goodness! Just Great!
Oh yes! Left but never forgotten
All was not lost then.
No thank goodness!
Lovely read on this fun take.
Thank you!
Yay! A happy ending. Nice take on the prompt, Laurie.
Thank you Kelvin!
What fun. Porcelain throne as a safe for precious memories.
Thsnk you. Who would look there for treasure?
I only knew you could hide guns in the toilet… but medals… why not.
Great hiding place–good take on this prompt, which has generated a lot of fun. Yours had a little different flavor.
Thank you… I love how everyone has the same pic but that every story is so very different.
I like the way you build to the reveal, letting us know a little bit at a time that they were searching, they were searching for a tin, ah! they were searching for Pop’s medals. That’s pretty hard to achieve in 100 words. Kudos!
Thank you Penny. I was enjoying making the sister suffer a little 🤣