School was officially out for the summer. But somehow, Bell was lost. A precocious first grader, tall for her age, she’d ended up in an empty hall. I can’t miss my bus! Ma will be so mad! Where is everyone???
She saw a weird machine-thing hanging on the wall. Climbing on it, standing tiptoe, her hand just reached the window. Oops. The black handle-thing fell off. The machine buzzed. Bell pounded on the window and screamed for help. Standing by her small charges in the driveway, Mrs. Verizon heard the ruckus. She hurried inside to find the distraught Bell.
Word Count: 100 Written for Friday Fictioneers where the inimitable Rochelle Wisoff-Fields presents a weekly photographic motivator for flash fiction (a story of 100 words or less). Photo credit: J. Hardy Carroll.
lillian the home poet 
Verizon, Bell – I like what you did there!
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Always good to add a bit of humor to the day! 🙂
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Dear Lillian,
Very clever story and play on phone systems. Makes me smile.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Always happy to hand out smiles 🙂 They’re good for the complexion I hear!
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Cleverly executed. 😎😎😎
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It was fun to do! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed.
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I had a horrible feeling the phone was going to leap off the wall and strangle her. Must stop having these thoughts…Nice interpretation, Lillian, made me smile 🙂
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Never! I saw this photo and first thought of a phone on the wall in a prison hall…..shook my head and decided we all need some humor in our lives so went this way! 🙂 Always happy to hand out smiles.
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You can all use them 🙂
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Cleverly done.
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Thank you, Sandra.
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I agree with everyone above, including your comment about smiled and complexions!
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Glad you enjoyed. Always good to have upturned mouths rather than frowns! 🙂
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Cute! Yes, definitely brought a smile. 🙂
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Ah, sometimes it’s good to make the pen smile on the page 🙂
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Good one!
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Thank you!
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Nice!
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Glad you enjoyed! A little humor is good for the spirit, right?
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That was cheeky! Well done.
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Happy to be cheeky —- always happy when the pen on the page creates something cheeky! 🙂
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I enjoyed your take on the photo prompt, and I am so glad the old phone came to her rescue.
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Yep — even though she had no idea she could use it to phone someone….it sure made a good step ladder so she could reach the window! 🙂
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Excellent word play there.
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Ah yes…..Ma Bell would appreciate it! 🙂
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Excellent take on the prompt. Funny and engaging!
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Always happy to hand out smiles 🙂
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This is hilarious!
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A little hilarity is a good thing! 🙂
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Awww poor thing. Like the story! Well done!! 😊
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Resourceful little girl —- that old thing on the wall made for a good step ladder….never mind the humming it made. 🙂
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Bell and Verizon. Too funny! I had thought this might be disguised as a sort of parable about the phone companies. Fun! Nicely done, Lillian.
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Oh yes…..and the idea that our youth today have no idea what a wall phone is….having grown up with a cell phone in their hands. I also once wrote a haibun about a young mail carrier’s first day on the job where he just dumped all the “junk mail” (catalogs etc) on the lady’s porch because he had no idea what the “Letter” slot was for on the door! (since he is so familiar with email, snapchat, etc) 🙂
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I had to read the comments to understand your references – we have neither of those companies in England!
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So sorry for the enthnocentricity of the piece. So think about the young children there who have only grown up with cell phones and look at those red “closets” on the street and wonder what they’re for???? 🙂
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A smile at last! Absolutely delightful
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Always happy to hand out smiles! 🙂
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You give us a good sense of a resourceful little girl. I bet there’s some more tales where that one came from!
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I’ll have to “ring her up” and see what she’s doing next week! 🙂
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Climbing on the phone to be rescued. This adds a new twist to the old line, “saved by the bell.” 😊
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Smiling I am here! LOVE your comment! 🙂
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Along with all the others, I am left smiling.
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Add my smile to the list too 🙂
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