When you’re dead and you have nothing really to do…
Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week photo is:
PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria
Four Dead Mah-jongg Players
“Doris, we have to stop meeting like this.”
“Why, Evelyn? We’ve been playing Mah-jongg for 90 years.”
“Yes, but for the first 70 we were alive.”
“So we’re dead, Doris, what else should we do?”
Selma piped in. “Ha. These cold metal chairs are killing me.”
She was always a little off.
Alice plotted, “What if when someone comes by, we rattle the chairs and scare the you-know-what out of them?”
The girls all squealed.
Evelyn sealed it with, “Beats sitting around, dead in these chairs, playing this stupid game.”
“C’mon, girls. Here they come. Let’s rattle our tiles …”
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
Dear Randy,
Change that spelling to Evalyne and you have my mom. I can hear the tiles clicking and the dots, bams, cracks and winds being flung in all directions. Every Saturday afternoon and Tuesday evening. No doubt the girls are still playing in the afterlife. Love it!
Pass the horseradish.
Happy Pesach,
Rochelle
😉
Interesting take. Enjoyed the read.
Thanks. Glad you did.
Randy
Sounds like they are about to start enjoying themselves. Neat take.
Boredom, or Mah-jongg, can do that to you. Thanks for commenting.
Randy
Sounds far more fun – rattle away! Nice one Randy.
Better than rattling chains, I suspect.
Thanks for stopping by.
Randy
There is something about this prompt that has inspired stories about loss, loneliness, and death. Yikes.
Empty chairs seem to evoke that response, yes.
Though I preferred having some fun with it.
Thanks for commenting.
Randy
Bahahah! So entertaining–those ladies are a lively bunch, even in death!
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Randy
Very funny story. Reminds me of bridge players! “These cold metal chairs are killing me”. Loved that line.
That’s typical Selma. Always deadpan.
Ba-da-dum.
Randy
Love the characters. Great story.
and they are characters, aren’t they?
Thanks for commenting.
Randy
I want to be a mischievous ghost like “the girls.” Loved this!
Nice, but may it be in a 100 years from now.
😉
Randy
Lots of fun. Old ghosts with a sense of humor 🙂
Hey, Selma says, who are you calling old?
The chairs are cold, but us “girls” aren’t old.
If anything, we are the newly dead.
PS Randy says, thanks for commenting.
Ha… love these mischievous batty ghosts. Good that they found some change after 90 years.
I agree. Nothing like a little dead on mischief.
Randy
Somehow I imagine these ladies were just as fun in real life! Wish I’d have met them.
Selma said, it’s not too late to meet, but the rest of the girls are suggesting that you ignore her suggestions just right now. They’ll be around when it’s time.
Randy
what a wonderful take on the prompt. one of the best i’d read this week. 🙂
How nice of you to say that. Thank you.
Randy
What fun!
Wanna play?
I mean you don’t have to be one of the Mah-jongg players, because that would take a total commitment on your part.
You could just pretend to be frightened by the tile rattling or something.
LOL
Randy
Ha ha ha, great fun take.
Glad you had fun. I did too.
Randy
It’s nice that they’re finding something to keep themselves occupied!
Isn’t that always the name of the game?
Although I hate when i see that come up on public bathroom stalls.
Ba-da-dum.
Randy
Fun story. I really like the idea of ghosts with a sense of humour!
Sort of like The Golden Girls on the Other Side.
Randy
So entertaining ! I so believed in the Dead Ladies, & I do know that Mah Jongg games cant go on for er – many years. Nice one.
The ladies say thank you.
Randy
‘Let’s rattle our tiles’ fantastic finish, I enjoyed reading this story.
Glad you did. Now rattle away yourself, Sir James.
Randy
What a fun way to spend the afterlife, playing Mah-jong. Very creative story! =)
Thank you.
The girls say that you’re welcome to join them, but not before your time.
In other words, no rush!
😉
Randy
I’ll keep that in mind! =)
Love it. It’s great to hear from some happy and mischievous ghosts. I’m going to look at squeaky chairs in a new way from this day hence. 🙂
This was so much fun to read! I love the thought of the ladies rattling their tiles.
Fun story. You made me grin 🙂