Breakfast – Friday Fictioneers

AnElephantCant drink coffee
He is already on the excitable side of hyper
If he takes too much caffeine
His pink bits turn green
And he birls and skirls like a demented bagpiper

Sound Bite Fiction

Friday Fictioneers is hosted by the wonderful Rochelle, the undisputed master of what I call Sound Bite Fiction.
She sets the weekly challenge, and the standard.
This week’s excellent photo by Jean L. Hays takes me down a predictable route.
Yep, dull as ever, what can I say.
The idea, as always, is to write a story of around 100 words based on the picture, below.

Copyright Jean L. Hays Copyright Jean L. Hays

Breakfast

Although it is not yet 9 o’clock the Avenue des Alliés is pulsing with life.
I sit outside a café, enjoying orange juice and croissants in the morning sunshine.
And wondering yet again if I am the only person in France who does not drink coffee for breakfast.
As I watch people going about their daily routines, little stories form in my head.
I am, after all, a writer.
Ostensibly.
I smile as I think of the cache of…

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2 Responses to Breakfast – Friday Fictioneers

  1. Indira says:

    Please publish a book on what Anelephant can AND CAN’T. iT WILL BE A VERY INTERESTING READ.

    Like

  2. Dale says:

    That would indeed be a sight! A birling and skirling Pink Elephant!

    Like

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