Every week at Friday Fictioneers Rochelle challenges us to write a 100 word story from a photo prompt. This week’s prompt along with her contributors stories can be found here
http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/12-december-2014/
Below is the photo prompt and my attempt at the story
The Unwashed
by JE Lillie
I walk along the shore and sort through the baubles. Papa has sent me to collect what I can for trading at the market. He’s not really my Pa just all I have left since that day.
I find a bar of soap partially dissolved in the goo. I wonder to myself how long it’s been since I took a bath. I bend to pick up the cleaner remembering what a hot shower feels like. I pull hard because the soap sticks and as it comes away from the ground the last finger that held the bar comes with it. Now I recall why I hate the water.
Lillie-Put 
Deer JE,
Your story give a whole new meaning tot the phrase, ‘don’t bend over to pick up the soap’. A great post something digital tale.
Aloha,
Doug
🙂
Dear Joseph,
Well that was certainly uplifting. Beside the feelings of not having bathed for a while and then the other hand still attached to the soap…ew.
Are you familiar with Larry Norman’s song, “I Wish We’d All Been Ready?”
Shalom,
Rochelle
I am familiar with it actually. I think what inspired this story is that last Sunday I hosted a missionary from Indonesia at our church. He got to talking about the tsunami and then I saw this beach scene strewn with stuff.
Dear JE,
It’s late and I should not be typing because I am on drugs and a bad typist. If you’d like to clean up my garbage, feel free. I’ll owe you. My comment above kind of fits with the prompt.
Aloha again,
Doug
NP my friend. Thanks for stopping by!
Joe, I find your dark side…interesting. 😉
Thank you Dawn.
Oooouuuu eerie!
Thank you and thanks for stopping by.
🙂
Eeeewwww! You are a good painter of words!
Lily
Thanks Lily!
A chilling story. You show the devastation and despair of the situation. The soap idea is really clever too.
Thank you and thanks for visiting!
This took me back to the aftermath of the big tsunami 10 years ago.. Good reason to hate water.
That is the premise it was based off of actually. We had a missionary from Indonesia in church on Sunday and this picture brought up the remembrance.