Today, the start of a work week, is the day that I devote to hosting the Mondays Finish the Story flash fiction challenge. In the challenge, I ask that you use between 100-150 words that uses the opening line and the photo prompt to create your story. Today’s post features fellow writer Martin Furman who came up with this week’s opening line. Here is today’s photo and the opening line is in bold and italics. I hope that you enjoy my story.
© 2015, Barbara W. Beacham
“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.” She certainly had watched him often enough. Heading out of the house through the hangar, she opened the door to the cockpit. Climbing inside, she buckled in.
The key slid into the ignition. She pushed in the mixture knob in to send fuel to the engine. She followed this by pushing in the carburetor knob. She flipped the master switch up. Then she primed the engine. She then opened the throttle. Turning the keys, she heard to engine fire up.
Delphine headed onto the runway, excited as she took off. She saw the world below her get smaller. There was her house and the orchards. When flying with her dad, he always pulled on the little yellow button. She pulled it and heard a whoosh. Fluid sprayed out behind her.
Circling back, she flew over the house. There was her Dad in the driveway waving his arms wildly. “Uh-oh,” she thought.
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Mondays Finish the Story
You too can join in on this fun challenge! To get to the Mondays post, click HERE!
A huge thanks to Martin for taking on the challenge of coming up with an opening line!
I hope that you enjoyed my bit of flash, and I would like to thank you for taking the time to drop on by. Have a magnificent Monday and be well… ^..^
Life in the Foothills 
With all that detailed description of unauthorised take-off, it makes me wonder if the author had some similar experience when she was little 🙂 Great story Barbara!
Thanks Martin! I just fly with friends and watch what they do as I sit in the passenger seat.
Good story, Barbara. It was very wrong of her to fly by herself, but part of the blame is due to her dad’s carelessness in leaving his keys behind. Well done yet again. 🙂 — Suzanne
Thank you Suzanne!
Oh no, wrong button! Would have been better if she waited for her father to take her up into the air. Flying without a instructions and a licence is a bad call
I hope that you enjoyed the story.
Yes I enjoyed reading it. Made me think about what I am going to write too.(Started thinking while I was supposed to sleep!)
Glad that you did and I enjoyed your story too!
What a fun story, I can just imagine her NOT wanting to land…she’s in trouble now. Great prompt too!
I am glad that you enjoyed my story Lisa! She is in trouble now….Thanks have to go to Martin Furman for the opening line…
I hope she didn’t just spray pesticide on everyone’s prize blooms or she’ll be in double trouble when she lands!
She missed the blooms and did cover the orchards. Her father would be proud!
Delphine is as high as a high little girl can attain ~ I think once she has been grounded and the dust settles ~ Dad will be over the moon with pride and admiration ~ 🙂
I think he will be too!
Uh-oh, indeed – although it was probably worth it.
Delphine thought it was….
Well, it seems she watched the startup procedure very carefully. Not so much for daring to fly the plane, but for daring how her father will react! This might be the time to put a little padding in the seat of her pants. 😉 Great story, Barb! I love all the details you included.
Thanks Eric! Good to know I did well with that….
To bed with no supper?? That might be the least of her problems. Great story!
That would be another story… Thank you!
Big trouble! This prompt invites us to the intersection of innocence, daring, and danger!
I am glad that you thinks so Emily! Thank you!
She is going to be grounded as soon as she touches ground! Nice one.
She might be! Or, maybe she gets a reprimand and kudos for a job well done?
We are driven to explore our limits… even the sky.
We should always be!
Oops, hopefully she missed the important stuff, like the people on the ground, but oh my, is she grounded!!!! Love it!
Totally enjoy your prompts!
Thank you Yolanda! I am so glad you are enjoying the MFtS challenges. I appreciate each and every one of your stories!
Love the detailed description of taking off. 🙂
I think I got it correct….Been up many times and watched…
Ah! missed that black cat…peeping from the gravatar. 🙂
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Loved it! She got caught! Haha!
I figured out how to put a link on my story to your story grid, but I still don’t know how to get the frog button on it. But at least I have a link.
Thanks for doing that. I can send you the script. Maybe that will work.
When you go into InLinkz to set up your challenge there is a place where it asks if you want to give the link to your participants. I click on the choice that I want to give them a link on my email post. I’m pretty sure that is what I choose. Then I copy that link and paste it into my challenge post (where I also put the froggy button) and I have to put it on the html side just like I do the froggy link. Then it gives a link on the front for everyone to click on to get the button for their stories. (It’s just like Rochelle’s stories. Have you seen on the challenge post she sends out, the link there that says, “Get the Link.” – that’s it).
Thanks! I will look for that this week when I put the new challenge together!
okay – it’s pretty easy.
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Here’s hoping Delphine can land as well as she can take off!
If she paid such close to attention to take off, maybe she did for landing!
She’s in trouble now. So are the people on the ground.
🙂 She is and they are!