I am super late this week in posting my story for Friday Fictioneers. There are several reasons for this, including being very busy at work, but one main one is that I am finding Friday Fictioneers stories harder and harder to write. It’s not that I can’t think of a story: I could probably sit down and write a hundred stories in a row for any given picture. It’s just that as time goes on, my standards for myself for originality and quality keep increasing and after 113 100-word stories, I feel like everything has been done. That’s one reason why I play around ways of presenting stories: I feel like I’m stagnating or at least I don’t want to. Sometimes a story that I like comes right to me, but usually it doesn’t and these days, I often agonize about it for days. If you do Friday Fictioneers stories, do you ever feel this way? Is it just me?
copyright Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Paper Dolls
Snip, snip. A line of identical dolls appeared.
Elise picked up one of the crayons from her father.
“Make them colorful,” he’d said. “Bring them to life.”
She left the first one blank; drew a happy face on the second. The third had clothes and hair.
The tenth took all week. Finally, the light glowed off her perfectly shaded face. Her name was Galatea; Elise had ten pages of history for her. She was Greek. And liked chocolate and rainbows.
Elise put down the pencil and Galatea’s arm floated up as if waving, blown by an imaginary breeze.
Elise smiled.
The Green-Walled Tower 