Invitation

  Photo prompt-copyright-Marie Gail Stratford

“Are you sure that this invitation is for the inhabitants of this planet? I can’t imagine why anyone would like to invite them.”

“What’s wrong with them?”

“You ought to ask, what is right with them?”

Every machine was sounding a warning signal.

“Everything seems polluted, even the minds and hearts. It’s not a place for a decent being. This invitation is a big mistake. We can’t let these people spoil our celebrations. Let’s go back. We can’t invite these people.”

“Rather we could suggest sending our renegades to this sick planet; it would be like sending them to hell.”

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A post for Friday Fictioneers- picture prompt

and Two Shoes Tuesday-word prompts- invitation and imagine

Word count 100

End of a beginning

                                                                                   Photo prompt- copyright-Jean L Hays

“Can’t we make a fresh beginning? We need to give ourselves another chance. Don’t you feel so?”

“But what of the bitterness and bickering that have been our constant companions?”

“I am aware and….. apprehensive.”

“How would we succeed? Why would we succeed?”

“We may not, but still I want to give ourselves a chance. Would you?”

“I really don’t know.”

He began to feel a sweet warmth in the air, “Yes, why not?”

Next moment they were two of the twenty odd hostages. It was a terror attack on the Café. 

Few survived the police action that followed.

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A post for Friday Fictioneers and Two Shoes Tuesday

Word count 99