Today is the day devoted to Alastair Forbes’ Sunday Photo Fiction! This flash fiction challenge provides you with a photo prompt and asks that you create a short story using somewhere around 200 words. Today’s story is exactly 200 words! I hope that you enjoy it!
One Dark Cloudy Night…
One Dark Cloudy Night – Photo by Alastair Forbes
It was a dark cloudy night. The bright lights from the roadway, and the red beacon of the radio tower stood as sentinels in the night. Beyond the row of homes, the lights on the department store glowed. Smoke wafted from a single chimney. The night was silent. As he sat on the rooftop eating a gingerbread cookie, he delighted in the scene before him.
He was enjoying the night, and got a good feeling that the rest of the night would go well. It had been good so far. It was not easy getting into some of the homes yet he managed. As the cookie crumbled, he caught the falling bits with his gloved hand. Now he was thirsty!
Getting up slowly, he decided that he needed to get back to it, and looked over towards the row of homes. While it was a short block, a number of folks lived in those homes, which the chimneys indicated. There was one for each residence.
Grabbing his bag, he jumped over to the next house. He smiled at the carrots on the rooftop. The boys will enjoy these he thought as he slid down the chimney to deliver the presents.
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Thank you Al for the inspiring photo, and to you dear reader for taking the time to stop by! Today we celebrate the first day of winter! Time moves too fast, doesn’t it? I wish you happy holidays! Be well! ^..^
Life in the Foothills 
Barb, Happy Holidays! You took us virtually to the rooftop with Santa. A perfect story for Christmas and well written. His trip seems to be going well. 🙂 — Suzanne
It did indeed! He stopped here!
Classic misdirection! 🙂
Thank you Steve! Maybe you might like to try out a new flash challenge I started called <a href="Mondays Finish the Story“>Mondays Finish the Story. You are provided a photo and the opening line of the story which you finish. Happy holidays to you and yours! Be well!
A good, cute short story to accompany the Holidays. Here’s hoping Santa will be good to you and yours. Your story also reminded me to buy some carrots!
Thank you PJ! I guess you already have the cookies, eh?
Cute story!
Thank you!
Awesome seasonal story. Loved it.
I immediately thought of Santa when I saw all those chimneys! 🙂 Thank you Al!
Although you can’t see it too well, there is snow all around there
Perfect!
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Very good! I realised who it was when I started to wonder why he was eating a cookie. And there’s even carrots for the reindeer 🙂
Thank you! 🙂 Couldn’t fool you!