There’s nothing like getting your brain wrapped around a great photo. Friday Fictioneers is great for that! Here’s this week’s image:
My 100-word gem added to the crown that is Rochelle’s Linky this week is called “History Revealed:”
As you walk through the esplanade, be sure to stop and review the display. Their placement is a historical mystery; archeologists surmise that they were frozen in time in the late 21st century, during the Last Great War. They were discovered 50 years ago in the middle of this historically-accurate city replica and have been referred to as modern versions of the Tollond Man and other bog people. Thanks to our technology, you can safely stand by and take a photo to show your relatives back home. See how they appear so life-like? Right, next on the tour: gift shop.
I love how you spun this prompt! Very nice.
Thank you so much 🙂
I really liked your story. I especially get a kick out of preserving modern day Seoul as a “historically accurate city replica.” It is strangely fitting – there are ancient palaces amongst the skyscrapers in that city, which I found kinda bewildering.
Thank you, Danny! I saw such contrast in the photo and you describe it well!
Excellent! and a great link to a really interesting article. Amazing the way that body had been preserved. Thanks for adding to my store of information today. 🙂
You are most welcome, Sandra!
A futuristic peek into a past presumed… well played!
I want to say chilling, but it’s more than that. Eerie and well written. Sorry yo sound cliche-ish. Suffice it to say I liked this piece. 😉
Thank you, Rochelle! And special thanks goes to my Christopher for the final two words that helped tie it together: gift shop 🙂
A. R., I love the way you compared them to bog people. That’s thinking outside the box!
Enjoy the weekend,
janet
Thank you, Janet! I ‘saw’ bog people when I started… 🙂
Hopefully that’s not like “I see dead people” from “The Sixth Sense!”
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Hahahaha! Maybe a little 🙂
Andree’ Robinson-Neal, EdD
Seek peace, and pursue it. (Psalm 34:14b)
Yes, that was pretty cool. I kind of want to go there.
With a name like “lingering visions,” of course you do! Sounds like a time machine visit to me 🙂
Snap! Pow! Crackle! There went my brain! I think you sparked something. 😉
Haha! Thought I smelled brain-works… 🙂
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Awesome take on the prompt! Your story reminds me a bit of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Ah, yes, Bee! I hadn’t thought of “Handmaid’s!” Thank you!
Andree’ Robinson-Neal, EdD
Seek peace, and pursue it. (Psalm 34:14b)
Wonderful. Yes to the future there would be no big difference between us and bog-people. Come to think about it, there is a similarity between the statue and the Pompeii people.
Very true! Hadn’t thought about Pompeii!
Nicely mysterious. Could make a whole new story.
Thank you, Abraham!