Friday Fictioneers * Rochelle Wisoff-Fields * Photo Prompt by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields * “Thus Spun Saffron” * 100 words * Angela Shaffer * 1 July 2016
Thus Spun Saffron
Saffron thought doily curtains were designed after crystalized snowflakes. Perfume trapped the elements of flowers. The daintiest of cakes are hinted with lavender. Any beauty created by human hands found example in nature. Ten years passed like shifting sand — the accumulation like frosty fingers. Only the first few issued pain, then a strange numbness set in her limbs. Saffron made herself cold, isolated, strong as the frosted glass. The harms of the world could not shatter personal fortitude. Positioned here, high up in her cave-like fortress, Saffron created reality for those too tired, for those unaware that they could.
Hello Dear Readers and Fellow Writers…
Every Friday, the lovely and talented Ms. Rochelle Wisoff-Fields shares a photo prompt, and creative Friday Fictioneer Authors create a story for the picture. Very cool<>… I look forward to Fridays for our outstanding fictional challenge. I like considering writing prompt practices as “exercise” for the brain. As hinted at through Saffron’s story above, We are the Artists – let us continue sculpting reality. Fiction presents a playing field for inventive imagination. Curious? …give Brian Boyd a read – On the Origin of Stories and see how fiction shapes experience.
Click the BlueFrog below to read the works of Friday Fictioneer Writers. Feeling creative?… I hope so 🙂 follow the link at the bottom of the BlueFrog’s page, follow directions, and add your own story as prompted by the photograph.
To a grand weekend, Darlings…Keep on dreaming<>
Angela aka @MmePhilosopher aka MadameWriter
curiouser contemplations 
Thanks for creating this reality for us
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De rein…thank you for the comment!
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Tough person is your Saffron.
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Dear Angela,
Saffron sounds like a lonely person. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Fiction creates history doesn’t it? I write creative non-fiction as well as fiction. After publishing my first collection I’m starting to get that people don’t get creative non-fiction. Saffron is so expensive! I’ll just have to settle for the cheap Mexican saffron (safflower). Saffron is a sacred color, too!
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Saffron seems to have frozen out any chance of happiness. Beautiful writing.
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Very lyrical and wistful. The imagery was great, Madame Angela.
Tracey
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Thank you, Tracey!
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It sounds like she’s in a literal ivory tower. I love the description of her creating her own reality. All fiction writers do that. We weave it from past realities. 🙂 — Suzanne
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