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.
Mrs. Zhou had followed her GPS religiously for twenty minutes, marching down Battery Park’s tree-lined sidewalk with unwavering confidence.
“YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION”, it announced cheerfully.
She looked around. No restaurant. No address. Just pavement and walls.
“RECALCULATING”, the phone chirped.
“Again?” she questioned, glaring at the screen.
It had led her to a fish market, a tire shop, and now….. nowhere.
A passerby noticed her predicament. “Lost?”
“No!” Mrs. Zhou said firmly, chin up. “My GPS is lost. I know exactly where I am.”
She marched back the way she came, phone notifications pinging frantically behind her.
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100 Words
This is “Any Road” by George Harrison
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The Elephant's Trunk 
Phone maps can be fraught with danger and confusion.
A great George Harrison song which sounds familiar but I didn’t recognise the title
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Oh the frustrations when GPS sends you on a wild goose chase. It once tried to make me drive straight over a cliff! I ignored it, of course.
I enjoyed your story. Well done.
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