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.
Every morning, the same ritual. Coffee, fruit, juice, and Great-grandpa Ernest propped up on the iPad, presiding over the table like he always did. The old B&W photo was taken sometime in the ‘40s, brush in hand, squinting at whatever he was painting that day. Nobody remembered the painting but everyone remembered that squint.
He never owned a smartphone; wouldn’t have trusted it, anyway. But he would have had a good laugh at the idea of becoming a breakfast companion decades after his death.
Click. The photo was taken. Great-grandpa Ernest captured again, still squinting, still painting, and still there.
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100 Words
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