No, wait, sorry. I meant Friday Fictioneers. No. I didn’t mean that either. This week it’s actually Non-Fiction dears…
Friday Fictioneers – it’s not just for Fridays. It’s any time that Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week should have been a stand up piece but as you can see from the picture…
Janet Webb wrote (see link here) to me last week stating:
…That (referring to the guard having to pee) and having way too much time to think would be major problems. As for genre, maybe you should only list it if it isn’t humor. 🙂
This is dedicated to her.
And so this week it is: Serious Non-fiction
copyright – Indira by way of Scott Vanatter
Taking pictures is no easy task
Parked alongside the road, she sneaked a few shots of the foliage.
Having forgotten she was on a blind curve, the bus grazed her without stopping.
Unharmed and grateful, she looked at her camera. A fuzzy plate number appeared.
Shooting pictures for “This, That, and the Other” was horribly dangerous, Janet Webb concluded. Too many close calls on railroad tracks, shooting up at domes or down over ledges at staircases, standing on rocks at the shore. She grimaced remembering shooting pork slices while the Thai chef wielded the silver knife and how close her nose was on his down stroke.
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
Well done! I know someone who does this very thing, and often endangers herself…and others.
Is her name Janet Webb?
No…
poke poke! Haha! Very good one!
Hey, I ain’t no pokemon, mon.
Oh, that was wonderful, darling — non-fiction this may be, but one of my initial thoughts for the story was from the POV of the photographer — an inept fellow with a horrible sense of timing!
Don’t tell Janet that.
Helena, I’m terribly hurt by that! I may inept, but I ain’t no feller.
Randy, if you think that’s non-fiction, you’ve obviously Thai-ed one on recently. And you got the genre wrong again this week. How sad! Watch out! I may be sneaking a few shots at you in the near future. Just picture that.
janet webb
Oooh. I’m shaking in my inkwell. 😉 Randy
Oh, darling! (cue best Paul McCartney Beatles song ever) I meant a fictional photographer — I pictured some novice filmmaker trying to get a shot, and it was the poor kid’s first day and hilarity ensued, trust me…
🙂
A seriously non-fiction really but somehow it got me laughing more…Well done!
me, too!
A long strange trip to the Thai chef on that one, but quite interesting. Nice post.
Ha. And here I though it Thai’d everything together so nicely.
Photographers are a bit myopic aren’t they?
Photographers are short sighted, I guess you would say (unless they’re using long distance lenses).
But with Janet, I would suggest you leave my-opic, your-opic, and her-opic out of the t-opic or else we’ll all be seeing t-rubble.
Nice story. Is this a “As I Sat On the Bus ” fictioneer entry? Check out Bumbastories for more detail on the bus schedule.
when are you leaving town?
The end made me smile!
Silvery knives don’t scare you? You must be a close up photographer…
(BTW – smiles are very good at endings)
Randy
😉
Too much funny stuff going on here! How fun! 🙂
I like funny stuff. Wanna do some funny stuff with me?
Eyebrow lifted here. I like playing with words too! Always fun!
eyebrow lifted back – and a face lift, too. So how’s that – nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
I don’t play, but I know all the words…
Sorry I missed the face lift reference?
You said you liked playing with words.
You lifted an eyebrow. I lifted my face. it was a play on words by writing it as a face lift.
It only goes to prove what I wrote that “I don’t play (well) but I know all the words (sort of)… ”
I hope your comment wasn’t meaning that you thought i had insulted you… because, aside from the fact that I didn’t, I don’t even know you or know well enough to say you needed a face lift… but if you took it as a reference to you – I am sorry. Do you need one? Because I have a cousin who’s an excellent surgeon and I can get you one wholesale…He and I used to lift a lot of things together.
Randy
HI Randy, no worries! I honestly wasn’t sure what your reference was relating to. As you just explained, it was your face. I have absolutely no issues regarding my appearance. Mother nature has been very nice to me there! But I will keep your cousin in mind for the future, maybe when I’m 100 or so! 🙂
Thanks. Hopefully the shaking in his hand will be under better control by then.
It’s been an uplifting experience, Penny. Thanks.
🙂 xx
Good perspective correlated to the image! Fun read!
what perspective?
Giving us the story from the photographer view?
Do you have the camera backwards?
Well something is backwards! 🙂
.erus rof s’tahT
Nice one!
that’s what she said!
A fun read.. I enjoyed every bit of it. 🙂
I guess you could say that you didn’t miss a bit.
Yeah, that downstroke is a killer.
said the guillotine
hahah.. nice one 🙂
nice one what?
i meant a funny hilarious story on the prompt 🙂
Oh. Now that’s funny!
Enjoyed this, Randy:) ‘This, That, and the Other’ reminds me of another show.. but that is called ‘This, That and what else’..
Glad you enjoyed this…. that… and what else?
The hidden dangers of a photographer. She needs a zoom lens for some of those. 🙂
I think if she had a zoom lens she might have stood out in the road and gotten hit rather than grazed.
Zoom-zoom-zoom to her doom-doom-doom.
A zoom lens just was added to janet’s Christmas List, along with an update to her life insurance policy with your name listed as beneficiary.
Now, Joe, I like how you think, even though I don’t think Bill will be too happy.
Risky behavior, indeed — and hopefully the photos were worth it. I liked the addition of the Thai chef at the end.
I was going to start with Thai chef and work my way by a nose to the front of the bus, but the wheels on the bus kept going round and round.
Thank for commenting. Randy
Dear Randy,
I’m glad this wasn’t too negative but am a little filmy on the plot. We must talk to Janet about snap judgment. She could’ve lost by a nose.
Glad you warned me that this was serious non-fiction. One of your best.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Seriously like your comments… I get the picture. thanks, Randy
Loved this. You have a nose for what’s funny
Thank you. In da woids of da great Jimmy Durante, “Da nose nose.”
Well done. Love the detail.
Thanks but you do know that the devil’s in the detail…
Lots of fun and very well written.
that’s what we’re all about..
you put your right foot in…
Very clever and lots of fun. That Thai chef detail is unsettling.
too close in your experience too?
Dear Randy,
Your muses are deliciously warped.
Aloha,
Doug
More like a time warp – and thank you. Randy
lol