Our gracious host, Rochelle, is asking us to get
creative in 100 words or less using the photo
seen below. Welcome to Friday Fictioneers
This is where the prompt took me.
She’d never believed in anything until the vertigo hit.
Looking up made the world tilt. Columns spiraling into ribs of light, stained glass bleeding color into white plaster. The dome floated, impossibly light for all that stone.
Her architect’s mind catalogued stress points and load-bearing arches, but something else stirred beneath the calculations. The way light pooled in the gallery’s curve. The rhythm of arch after arch, like a held breath.
Not faith, exactly. But standing in the center, turning slowly as the space wheeled overhead, she felt it: the pull of something carefully, deliberately built to lift you skyward.
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100 Words
This is “Vertigo” by U2
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The Elephant's Trunk 
I like how you created an emotional pull through the structure of the. building’s interior.
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Under a dome of flawless white
Being elevated toward the uncorrupted light
A poet’s last moonlit playwright …
https://youtu.be/7-OfACE4ASQ
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The vertigo song was a fun ending and I liked how you ley us feel the pull of something that could “lift you skyward” 🙂
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Thank you, Yvette. I’m glad you enjoyed the story and the song. Faith is such a personal matter but one thing we can all agree on is everyone at one time or another needs a spiritual lift in life.
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