PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Note:Demeter, Persephone/Kora and Hades are main players in the Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek Mythology). In short, a tale to explain life, death, and the seasons. Hades kidnaps Persephone (because it's what Greek Gods do) and Demeter goes searching for her daughter. … Continue reading Flash Fiction: A Mother’s Patience
Category: Gods vs 21st Century
Classic gods navigate the 21st Century
Flash Fiction: The Dryads
PHOTO PROMPT © Liz Young for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Once upon a time, There lived a forbidden love. So envious of the lovers, the villagers hunted the couple down. The sweethearts called upon the dryads begging for a haven. No avail. Murdered by axes, blood stained the … Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Dryads
Flash Fiction: Brotherly Competition
PHOTO PROMPT © CEAyr for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Zeus and Poseidon eyed the mortal on the beach. Zeus from his heavenly clouds and his brother from the waves. Eons of competition fired between them; destruction, rape and mayhem. The sea god twirled his trident; one earthquake or wave … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Brotherly Competition
Flash Fiction: Lights, Camera, Action
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Note:Eris (Discordia) is the Greek Goddess of strife. Stories featuring Eris (and other gods) can be found here. *~* Light, camera, action. The presenters began reading the prime time news from the teleprompters. The Truth Fairy fidgeted from behind the scenes. Her … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Lights, Camera, Action
Flash Fiction: The Saving Grace
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Note:Eris (Discordia) is the Greek Goddess of strife. Other stories featuring Eris (and other gods) can be found here. My gods, she's been a busy bee of late! Furious mobs clashed outside. Their venom roared like thunder on a … Continue reading Flash Fiction: The Saving Grace
Flash Fiction: SPLAT!
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Chronus, The Father of Time, stood at his frying pan. Bacon wafted through his dwelling. Taking time out. He chuckled at his own lame joke. Time stood still for no bastard. Mortals should stop praying to him. No dodging … Continue reading Flash Fiction: SPLAT!
Flash Fiction: Into The Labyrinth
PHOTO PROMPT © CEAyr Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Note:This week's story places the Greek mythological labyrinth in the 21st century. Other stories featuring the gods in today's world can be found here. * ~ * Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, sighed as she crouched and picked up broken rope. … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Into The Labyrinth
Flash Fiction: Apollo’s Revenge
PHOTO PROMPT © Susan Eames Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Apollo sat on his Olympian cloud and sighed. Mortals ceased looking up to him. What's the meaning of life? He gave them everything; creativity, healing, and the sun. He had nothing more to offer. Eris, the goddess of discord, flashed next … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Apollo’s Revenge
Flash Fiction: Discord on the Street
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Eris, the goddess of discord, leaned against the stone wall of an ancient alley way and yawned. People walked by in an orderly fashion. The passing crowd, paid for beverages at the small outside store. Small talk rung in her … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Discord on the Street
Flash Fiction: Morning Tea
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here. Note: Dionysus is the Greek God of wine. “Have you heard? Dionysus is missing. I bet he’s off on another bender.” Delphine stirred her tea and shrugged. No love lost between her and the god of insanity. Continuously, he stole her … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Morning Tea
