THE NEWS FROM BOBBY

 

Photo Copyright: Al Forbes

This story was written for Sunday Photo Fiction–July 10th, 2016. Each week the host, Al Forbes, provides a picture prompt. The challenge for each member of the group is to write an original story or poem with no more than 200 words, not including the title and inspired by the prompt.

To read the other stories written by group members, just click on the link below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box.

The link to the other stories this week is as follows:

https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/sunday-photo-fiction-july-10th-2016/

Genre: Humor Fiction

Word Count: 200 Words

THE NEWS FROM BOBBY by P.S. Joshi

Many children have a desire to be superheroes. Bobby Bitters wanted to be a journalist with The Pittstown-Pottsworth Paper. This desire was understandable as his mother, Beatrice Bitters, wrote an advice for the lovelorn column for the paper.

He would read her column every day and tell his friends to read it. When their parents found out, they didn’t know exactly what to do. They finally decided it could do no harm as identities were never given and Beatrice never wrote anything unfit for children. She was religious and kept it clean. It was a small paper owned and operated by religious Mr. Packer.

Bobby was always looking for interesting stories. He had a great source to hear about the problems adults in his area were having, his school friends. He figured he didn’t need to give advice, just report as that was part of the job. He could type news on the computer, make copies with the printer, and sell news to his school friends and other students at his school.

Soon there was a sizable problem. “John,” one of the mothers shouted at her husband, “this paper says you can’t stand my mother! Explain yourself.”

CABLE CARS

 

This story was written for Sunday Photo Fiction – May 15th, 2016. Each week the host, Al Forbes, provides a picture prompt. The challenge for each member of the group is to write an original story or poem with no more than 200 words, (not counting the title), and inspired by the prompt.

To read the other stories written by group members, just click on the link below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box.

The link to the other stories this week is as follows:

https://sundayphotofictioner.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/sunday-photo-fiction-may-15th-2016/

Genre: Humor/Fantasy Fiction

Word Count: 198 Words

CABLE CARS by P.S. Joshi

For centuries, the inhabitants of the Planet Plinket had been planning to take over the earth. It wasn’t that they needed more land. They had plenty. They needed a good vacation spot.

The scientists had gathered in the conference room of the scientific research center in their largest city. A woman scientist, Zeena Ziplock, was the first to put forth an idea.

“It will help us take over if we can conceal our real identities to infiltrate. We need to choose something common on earth and become that thing. We’ve been experimenting.

Someone else spoke up, “What about food? That’s common.”

“Yeah, and be eaten?” someone shouted. Ideas flew thick and fast.

“What about animals–dogs or cats for instance?”

“We’ve tried that. If they don’t appear to have owners, they’re adopted. Remember what happened to poor Maltmix. He can no longer …”

“All right, Ziktin. We get the idea.”

“What about fish?”

“Fish are food on earth.”

“Oh, yeah, I forgot about poor Morkton. May he rest in peace.”

Zeena spoke again. “Remember the film we took as birds?”

“Cable cars!” They all shouted.

“When we want to take over we can hold our passengers for ransom.”