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Brooding Storm – Short Story

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Mondays Finish the Story by Barbara Beacham

This is a flash fiction challenge where Barbara W. Beacham offers a picture and the first sentence of the story. Based on the photograph and the first sentence, one must come up with a 100-150 word short story.

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Picture by Barbara W. Beacham

BROODING STORM © JK. Leahy

The crew of the Angel Flame received orders to head out. When Yakov and Marishka reach the secluded Russian base, most men had already boarded.

Marishka wiped her tired eyes as her husband walked to the submarine, leaving her, their newborn Polinka and their sick two-year-old, Boris. It was a dreary Friday at 5am; three lost seagulls skirted past Yakov, fleeing the brooding storm.

After Yakov’s head vanished into the submarine, Marishka left – four hours later the snowstorm hit. The radio announced that nobody was hurt. Marishka medicated and monitored Boris’s temperature.

The next day at 7am she heard a knock. It was persistent. Unwrapping herself from Polinka, she reached for her gown.

Marishka caught a glimpse of a man in uniform through the winter-frosted glass and threw open the door with a grin. Expecting to fall into Yakov’s arms, her stomach sank when instead she met the gaze of a stone-faced man carrying Yakov’s personal effects.

“Mrs Vladimir?”

“…Yes?”

 

 

34 thoughts on “Brooding Storm – Short Story”

  5. A very well written and atmospheric and piece. Events such as these happen too many times to keep track of.

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  11. Joycelin – this is so well done! It is evenly written and comes to a close that is sad. But it means a new beginning too! Thank you for writing for the MFtS challenge and may you be well…. ^..^

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      2. Oh, that is so kind of you to say. I enjoy your not so little blog. (You have so many great writers writing for you – so in my opinion – that’s ‘big’! Thank you very much again.

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