Every week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields (thank you, Rochelle!) hosts a flash fiction challenge, to write a complete story, based on a photoprompt, with a beginning, middle and end, in 100 words or less. Post it on your blog, and include the Photoprompt and Inlinkz (the blue frog) on your page. Link your story URL. Then the fun starts as you read other peoples’ stories and comment on them!
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
Close to the Wind
“Gonna wipe you out today!” Sue grinned at Adrian in the next dinghy.
“Get away! Women can’t sail!”
The cannon boomed. The race was on.
A gentle breeze blessed the sapphire water of the estuary with diamond waves. Golden brown cattle grazed peacefully on the lush pasture of the south bank. Woods on the north bank perfumed the air with pine.
Two boats converged, too close, for the first turn.
“Keep away!” Sue yelled at Adrian, as he drew level on her windward side. Her dinghy shuddered as it lost speed.
“You bastard, you stole my wind!”
Adrian just laughed.
