Air
Today is Day One of the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. Click on the letter picture to the right for more information about this blog hop. Like last year, I’m writing 100-word flash fiction stories/poems/scenes for this year’s challenge. Today’s is:
AIR
I can’t say when the music started. It kind of drifted into my head, like a translucent whisper that gradually gains solid form, with words that hum distinct, definable tones. But as to the tune, I couldn’t say. It wasn’t one I’d heard before. Yet it sung to me, a melody of peace and quiet. Stillness and calm. It made me smile, deep in my soul. I might have got up, but I didn’t want to. The music rested my muscles, relaxed my mind. I just wanted to lie there and listen to it.
Besides, I’d stopped breathing hours ago.
Come back tomorrow for B…
Ethereal music…
My comment that I’ve just posted seems to have vanished into thin air…
I wrote, “Ethereal music…”.
Hello, Romi! For some reason my spam filter took your first message, but I caught it. 🙂 Yes, indeed, ethereal music…
Oh wow, love the ending.
Thanks, Laura! 🙂
That was a nice start to the challenge. Intriguing. I’ll definitely be back tomorrow for B!
Mary @ WilloughbyEditing
Thanks, Mary! Sorry it’s taken a while for me to reply to your comment. For some reason, it was taken captive by the spam filter. I really don’t know why that happened, but I’ve checked the filter settings and hopefully it won’t happen again. 🙂
Greatly enjoyed… You are one of few flash writers that I have found. I will be looking back for more.
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Thank you, Roger. I’m glad you it, and continue to enjoy the others. 🙂
Make him rise again. Start the zombie apocalypse! 😉
Ha! Well, that would certainly take the story in a different direction… 🙂
Great start to the challenge- I love your theme. Looking forward to seeing tomorrow’s!
Thanks, Julian! It’s a fun theme to do… at least for me. 😀
Mm.. There is nothing like some good music to make me stop in my tracks.
~AJ Lauer
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Perhaps not under our hero’s circumstances, though… 😉 Thanks for stopping by, AJ!
This one is quite delightful.
Thanks, W.R.! If you drop by again, I warn you there are some darker stories in the mix this month, some that verge on horror–even though that’s not a genre I typically write. But that’s partly why I like these challenges: they give me the chance to dabble with no commitment. 🙂
Haha, dark or light, so long as they’re compelling, I won’t mind! No doubt I’ll drop by again to see what you’ve got 🙂 From what I can see (read) you’ve got the kind of voice I like.
Great story. It’s peaceful with a touch of sad. 🙂
Thanks, Chuck–that’s what I was aiming for.
Lovely! They were all great stories, but of course there are favorites, unlike children. Again, I loved I-H-B-A. Great job, Colin.
Thanks, Lynn. 🙂 Yes, unlike my children, I do have favorites.