Friday Fictioneers prompt for 12 September 2014.

What is Friday Fictioneers? Rochelle presents a challenge to write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and end, based upon a picture that she provides on her blog.

Here is today’s picture prompt (below).

Friday Fictioneers Photo Prompt copyright Janet Webb

Reflected Projections

Word Count: 100

Genre: Fiction

Her hands worried a stray thread absently as she gazed out at the frozen river and then glanced back to see it reflected in the mirror behind her. The gaping hole in the ice wasn’t there, nor the yellow caution tape tied to the scrub at the shore.

What she did see was herself, afghan tucked around her lap in the wheelchair. A little boy scrambling about on his knees, Thunderbird 2 in one pudgy hand and Thunderbird 1 in the basket of toys beside him.

Not lying in the muddy, cold weeds at the bottom of the river’s edge…

~ kei

10 September 2014