Rochelle brings us Friday Fictioneers with my story below the picture prompt and the rest > HERE < Enjoy!!!
Source: PHOTO PROMPT – © Erin Leary License for Reuse Assumed Click Pic for Page
And Here Lives the Past
By Scott L Vannatter – 100 Words
To the untrained eye, the small stalks with fibrous umbrellas at the top really looked like simple mushrooms. Jordan, however, did not have untrained eyes. Her abilities as a xeno-anthropologist told her that these were alien spores…old alien sports.
She knelt down, quickly and carefully dug up all the spores, and stored them in a traveling box. She took them home and replanted them carefully under her strictest guidelines.
She painstakingly watched them grow to be almost six-feet tall before they shed their roots and stepped forward. Jordan was so happy she had been able to save her cousins’ lives.
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Namaste,
Scott
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Family comes first, no matter what. Kind of mush(room)y. 🙂
janet
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Ha..great job and next task is to take over earth…
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too cool sci-fi spin! made me think of soylent green: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
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Ah, the old alien spore story. Nice take on the prompt. Just have to watch out for the invasion of the shrooms
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A lot of my older students would be happy to be invaded by shrooms
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Loved it Scott 🙂
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That’s a huge compliment to me coming from you!
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Thank you for saying so. 🙂
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Fun ending! She saved the day.
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I have a bad feeling about these cousins…
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Re- birthing cocoons come in all shapes and sizes?
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Apparently, the topic has “mushroomed”.
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Unless she studies their culture, the proper term would be exobiologist!
NASA and I, in my FFstory of the week, and most others concur on that.
Still good, still liked so no biggie, ⭐ Tay.
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Dang even did some research on that one!
lol – thanks.
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This made me think of Harry Potter…6 foot mushrooms…love that.
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Not so sure I like these…
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I meant the image…it was very Merlinesque to me…clever of you.
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Doug – of course you meant to write that she was a good spore – not sport? for sure. This was a spore story, not a sports story.
Good entry. Randy
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In that case…yes, he’s right…and thanks.
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Dear Scott,
So you’re saying she was a good sport?
Aloha,
Doug
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Um, no…not really my intention.
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