Flash, Very Short Story

Reflections In The Moonlight

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Our gracious host, Rochelle, at Friday Fictioneers
asks us to use the photo below as inspiration
to write creatively in 100 words or less while
making every word count. This is my flash.

Prompt Photo © Sandra Crook

They stood in the bedroom, looking up at the moon and making wishes for their future together. She leaned into him feeling his warm breath on her neck and she sighed. He asked how they ever got so lucky and she whispered she was just asking herself the same thing. For them, everything else ceased to exist. It was just them, the moonlight and their dreams. 

She opened her eyes, jolted by her reflection, her tear-stained face. The painful reality hit like a tidal wave; his funeral was that morning. It was just her, the moonlight and her memories.

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100 Words

This is “Moonlight Serenade” by Carly Simon

21 March 2025

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55 thoughts on “Reflections In The Moonlight”

  4. Ooh. I got chills from this. That sharp turn hits like a prostitute. Hmm… Maybe I should not have let my phone pick the next word, but you get the idea. That sharp turn hits like a pimp. There we go.

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          1. 💞 And, just so you know, I hesitate every time I write somthing along these lines because I fear being though of as someone who has “not moved forward – I refuse to say “on” – and is stuck. When that is not what it is at all.

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            1. I so get that, my friend. And I’ll repeat what you told me … ‘don’t hesitate’. Someone commented on another of my posts today that we need to ‘get over’ my brother-in-law’s death. I didn’t challenge them on their wording; I chalked it up to them not having the same depth of soul that I have. How’s that for reasoning? 😎

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              1. I don’t. Well, not for long 😉 And yeah, you get over not getting a seat to a show; you do not get over death. Good on you for doing that internal reasoning. I admit to never correcting anyone, either.
                However, when someone calls Mick my ex. EX?? Oh, you mean my late husband? smh

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