Sunday, June 27, 2010

MicroFiction Monday



Susan at Stony River Farm hosts Microfiction Monday. She posts a picture and you compose a story in 140 characters. You can click on the icon to get further instructions. To help you along she has posted a wonderful link that counts your characters for you! How great is that! You can get the counter at Design 215.

This meme is easy and it's fun! Thanks, Susan for hosting.

And here's the picture for the day!



Since she had been taken aboard the ship by her stepfather, the lovely
mermaids had been her only company. Soon she'd join them, swim away.
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30 comments:

  1. PatJune 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    Ooh, the evil stepfather drives his stepdaughter away...a classic story.

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  2. AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    Nice one Sylvia, Soon she will be with the Mermaids. Mine is posting in a couple of minutes.

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  3. Anything Fits A Naked ManJune 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM

    Oooh, I want to join the mermaids, too! Fantastic, Sylvia! Really great, imaginative stuff!

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  4. TrotterJune 27, 2010 at 3:28 PM

    Hi Sylvia! Sorry for the absence, but after a long weekend break, I was working abroad last week...
    The new header is wonderful!!
    Have a great week!

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  5. PeggyJune 27, 2010 at 4:34 PM

    Perfect story this week. Love the emotions felt in me from your story.
    Have a good week ahead. I think e're going to cool off a bit.

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  6. Michael G-GJune 27, 2010 at 5:21 PM

    Very elegiac, Sylvia. Great job! Hope you have a good week.

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  7. lotusleafJune 27, 2010 at 5:56 PM

    Very imaginative and sad, but fits the picture.

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  8. PattiJune 27, 2010 at 6:27 PM

    Wow Sylvia, I love your imagination.

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  9. Susan at Stony RiverJune 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM

    Now that's excellent! Good luck girlie -- I hope her new life is all she dreams it will be!

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  10. christopherJune 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM

    Wish you could go more characters on this.

    ...and profoundly into the deep?

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  11. AnonymousJune 27, 2010 at 7:38 PM

    Very well done my friend. Very deep and touching I think. This could have such a good continuation. Well done my friend. :) A side of you that I like very well. Well I like all sides actually :) Have a great week ahead :)

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  12. Linda ReederJune 27, 2010 at 7:59 PM

    Good job. The young girl does appear to be so wistful.

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  13. Gemma Wiseman aka Pamela AdamsJune 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM

    O how lovely! I too thought that the young girl was longing for a change of scenery!

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  14. magiceyeJune 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM

    fascinating!

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  15. UnknownJune 27, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    Nice one Sylvia. Love it.

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  16. Ellie GarrattJune 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM

    So sad, but touching. I loved the feelings your story conveyed.

    Have agreat week.

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  17. MorningAJJune 27, 2010 at 11:44 PM

    Oooo. Swim away with the mer-folk. That sounds so tempting.
    Good story

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  18. John (@bookdreamer)June 27, 2010 at 11:46 PM

    But soon her prince will come.... My gal not so nice!140 Story

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  19. AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 12:24 AM

    Perhaps after swimming with the fishes, she'll change her tune?

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  20. anthonynorthJune 28, 2010 at 12:32 AM

    I can imagine many wanting to do that. Nicely done.

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  21. SquirrelQueenJune 28, 2010 at 1:19 AM

    So sad, but perhaps she will find true happiness with her mermaid friends.

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  22. mrsnesbittJune 28, 2010 at 1:30 AM

    very surreal Sylvia! Loved it! So spiritual!

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  23. KayJune 28, 2010 at 2:16 AM

    oh! I was not expecting that! Very nice shock factor

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  24. giorno26 ¸¸.•*¨*•.June 28, 2010 at 4:10 AM

    Hi Sylvia
    triste ma bella la storia :-))
    Buona giornata.

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  25. jabblogJune 28, 2010 at 5:45 AM

    Aww, that's rather sad.

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  26. AkelamaluJune 28, 2010 at 8:12 AM

    She'll be happier with the mermaids.

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  27. SouthLakesMomJune 28, 2010 at 9:01 AM

    Such Victorian melancholy. Really suits the illustration!

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  28. UnknownJune 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM

    Evil stepfathers, sounds like a seafaring twist on Cinderella! :)

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  29. Charlene AmsdenJune 28, 2010 at 11:15 AM

    I had total brain freeze on this one. Love your story, though!

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  30. AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM

    Great take on this week's pic. Made me a bit sad though. Poor girl.
    Thanks for sharing.

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