Saturday 22 August 2015

Complacent

Photo prompt © C E Ayr
No one was even willing to listen to him.
In fact, everyone derided him, ‘Only your study is true? Everything else is baseless?’
“I don’t know; but my studies reveal that we don’t have much time left. It’s a ticking time bomb. ’
They laughed at him and went on with their usual chores.
Five hundred days later they realized that they had only fooled themselves. The seas had suddenly swallowed huge land masses.
The leftover portions were hit be storms and freaky weather.
In his log cabin, high up in the mountains, he could only mourn at their folly.
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A post for FridayFictioneers on a photo prompt



16 comments:

  1. wow! this is super interesting Aroraji...

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  2. One soothsayer who should have been listened too! My mind immediately went back to the great tsunami.What an interesting take on the prompt.
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  3. Good story, well said in few words.

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  4. Dear Arora,

    A prophet is seldom respected in his own home town. Well done.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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  5. I think sometimes believing the pessimist is a lot of hard work... alas sometimes it's better to listen.

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  6. Rochelle took the words right off my keyboard. :) Good story!

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