Mondays Finish the Story –
July 13th, 2015
Welcome to Mondays Finish the Story!
This is a unique flash fiction
challenge where we provide you with a new photo each week, and the first
sentence of a story. Your challenge is to finish the story using
100-150 words, not including the sentence provided. Don’t
forget to use the opening sentence… This challenge runs from Monday to
Sunday! Get creative and have fun finishing the story!
Today I need to thank Martin Furman for creating today’s
opening line! Please check out his amazing site!
Please include the photo with
your bit of flash and a link back to this post.
Click on the link above which will
take you to the page with the blue frog to add your link so that others can
enjoy your story too! Now let’s have some fun!
Finish the story begins with: “Delphine
always wanted to pilot her father’s plane and when he forgot his keys
on her tenth birthday, she knew that taking off would be easy.”
FEVER
“Delphine always wanted to pilot her father’s plane and when he forgot
his keys on her tenth birthday, she knew that taking off would be easy.”
Soaring high above the ground,
nothing but blue skies, no boundaries, no limits, normal constraints no longer
existed. Delphine saw pink and white
balloons with ‘Happy Birthday’ emblazoned on their rubber skins. She sang along with her guests as they
carolled the birthday song, mainly out of tune but with great gusto.
The air become a little chilly,
the radio played only static, panic began to set in, Delphine’s legs started to
shake as she trembled with the cold. Her
forehead became covered in beads of sweat as she thrashed wildly around trying
to control the rudder.
She heard somebody
whispering. It was her dad’s voice
breaking through the fog of panic.
‘It looks as though her fever is
breaking.’
A heartfelt sigh rebounded across
the bedroom walls as her mother tried to straighten her bedcovers while she
cooled her daughter’s fevered brow with a cold flannel.
Word count: 147
