SATURDAY IN THE PARK

The band, Chicago, has been one of the most successful recording groups in music.

One of the early hits was a ditty called "Saturday in the Park".

Your mission today is to take one of the images from the lyric (included below) and use that as the basis of your FLASHY FICTION.

IMAGES FROM SATURDAY IN THE PARK

Songwriter: ROBERT LAMM

~Saturday in the park     

                                                        ~People talking, people laughing

                   ~A man selling ice cream                      

~A man playing guitar 

~People dancing, really smiling         

                                                                   ~Slow motion riders

      ~Fly the colors of the day          

                                              ~  A bronze man still can tell stories his own way       

           ~Listen children              

                                                                       ~All is not lost

   ~Funny days in the park      

                                                            ~Every day's the Fourth of July

~People reaching, people touching
~A real celebration 

                                                                     ~Waiting for us all              
                                                        ~I've been waiting such a long time

Or come up with a few park images of your own and write them!

GOING NOWHERE!

Put yourself into this scene.

Write what you envision!

Another Empty Room

Image courtesy WikiMedia Commons

The title of this work is called 'Another Empty Room.'  I wonder why...?

Up Up & Away

At the QuickChek Festival of Ballooning/Photo credit RJ Clarken

To no longer be earthbound...where would you go?

Wish you were here...

14th July

Dear Short Fiction Writers,

While exploring the attic of the old Victorian home of your elderly great aunt, you found an old postcard sticking out of a roll top desk.  To whom was it addressed, what did it say - and where was it sent from? 

Wish you were here...

Kindest regards,
Your Saturday Flashy Fiction Host

Oasis

Image courtesy of Rogallery/Unknown Artist, Unknown Island Oasis

It's really hot out, right?  Steaming...sizzling...HOT.

So...

Where is your oasis?

COME BLOW YOUR HORN!

The color of magic is the color of you...

Image courtesy of Thoughts on Arts and Creative Living

According to Terry Pratchett, 

Octarine is the color of magic.  What color are you?

A bird in hand...

Image courtesy of West Hampton-Hampton Bay's Patch/Patti Robinson

Connections are made every day and in different ways:  a bird, a song, the touch of a hand.  How do you find the connection?  What makes it real?

Follow the trail...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A Bridge to Springtime...

Image courtesy of Panoramio

...where will it take you?

Some things might not be what you would expect...

Image courtesy of In Deziner

Saturday Sequences...

Image courtesy of cameraposition

Soarin'...

This image is a photo still from the classic film The Red Balloon.

A light in the clearing

image courtesy of liquid love light

'tis...

Image courtesy of freakingnews

~Rustic Places~Capturing Essences~

(Image courtesy of Hannah Gosselin)

Sometimes there're places that hold a strong sense of presence for us...

Express...

Three Word Salad Saturday

You know the drill, right?  Write a flashy bit o'fiction that incorporates the following three (count 'em...3) words:

1. agroof (ah-GROOF) — to fall flat on your face

The word that means "to fall flat on the face" is commendable for its precision. I like the inclusion of "roof" for a word that means a "fall."

 2. louche (LOOSH) — of questionable taste or morality; decadent

The very sound of it conjures decadence.

  3.  cusp (KUSP) 1. a point or pointed end. 2. a pointed or rounded projection on the chewing surface of a tooth; a triangular fold or flap of a heart valve. 3. a point at which a curve crosses itself and at which the two tangents to the curve coincide. 4. the point of intersection of two ornamental arcs or curves, such as the inner points of a trefoil. 5. either point of a crescent moon. 6. a transitional point or time, as between two astrological signs.

Just the sound...It is a great word

***Note: The above words came from a fab list of great words called Vocabula.

Will you...

Image courtesy of photographs