
Photo Credit: Louise, the Author of The Storyteller’s Abode
They hadn’t seen each other in 50 years. Margie, a widow, had four children, twice as many grandchildren, and a great-grand on the way. Alma and her husband were never blessed with their own children, but she had devoted her life to teaching. She always said she was mother to hundreds. Tessa and her Stanley had a son. Margie and Alma, the entire country for that matter, knew John. He had pursued an acting career and had become a leading man in many feature films…a real heart throb. There was a lot of catching to do for these three best friends who’d once shared a flat while attending university.
When they saw each other for the first time in the plaza, they stopped in place, launched into their favorite song, a chart-topper, “You’ve lost the lovin’ feeling…oh oh that lovin’ feeling…” then giggled like school girls. As you might suspect, their conversation picked up as if the years and distance had never separated them.
Wouldn’t you like to be a fly near that café table!
kat ~ 8 December 2015
(175 Words)
This story was prompted by the photo featured above as part of Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writer’s (FFfAW) Weekly Challenge. If you would like to read other stories or participate yourself, click HERE.




December 8th, 2015 at 1:49 pm
Cute story! Take me back years in time. 🙂 It would be fun to be a fly on the wall of this reunion.
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December 8th, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Yes! I can only imagine the conversation! 🙂
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December 8th, 2015 at 2:03 pm
I think it might be like they never were apart. (After they talked about their families and careers).
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December 8th, 2015 at 2:10 pm
I agree! 🙂
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December 8th, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I am sure it was a grand conversation
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December 8th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I have no doubt! 🙂
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December 8th, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Well not a fly, maybe a butterfly. Great story.
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December 8th, 2015 at 6:27 pm
As long as you are within earshot! 🙂
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December 8th, 2015 at 7:30 pm
I like this short story it makes me want to hear how things go between these friends! you always keep me hanging on with these endings!
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December 8th, 2015 at 7:33 pm
I’ve had the opportunity to meet up with old friends after many years. It’s wonderful! 😊
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December 8th, 2015 at 7:48 pm
yes it is special!
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December 8th, 2015 at 8:06 pm
😊
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December 8th, 2015 at 8:41 pm
I love how their friendship just picks us as if all those years hadn’t passed.
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December 8th, 2015 at 8:42 pm
That’s the lovely thing about friendship. 😊
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December 8th, 2015 at 10:52 pm
This is such a true story for any ever-lasting friendship!
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December 9th, 2015 at 2:04 am
And we are fortunate indeed to have a friendship like this. 😊
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December 9th, 2015 at 12:14 am
I can really relate to your story…years ago I had lunch with a good friend of mine and we spent two hours talking and laughing about the things that happened to us when we were in high school and some secrets we never told each other. Enjoyed your story. 🙂
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December 9th, 2015 at 2:08 am
Thank you JC. I too recently had lunch with a high school friend. It was a wonderful visit. 😊
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December 9th, 2015 at 5:09 am
Definitely I would!
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December 9th, 2015 at 6:03 am
😉
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December 9th, 2015 at 6:06 pm
Lovely story. That is the greatest thing about bestfriends that you can pick up right where you left off years and years later. Great writing!
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December 9th, 2015 at 7:02 pm
Thank you Mandi. That is so true! 😊
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December 9th, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Cute and jovial. And they seem so youthful. as if nothing have changed. Not even their ages, in spite of grandkids. Loved it!
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December 9th, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Thank you Etol! There is something about reuniting with old friends that brings one back!
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December 10th, 2015 at 1:36 am
Love the way that old song just brought them all back together again – like it was only yesterday.
First paragraph works well to tie in the present with the past. We can skype and email all we want, but – as you’ve shown here – nothing takes the place of that physical presence.
Ellespeth
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December 10th, 2015 at 3:03 am
Thank you for commenting Ellespeth. Your reflections on the story give me another way of seeing the topic. 😊
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December 11th, 2015 at 10:31 am
A lovely story. 🙂 A friendship that can pick up where it left off, despite the number of years in between, is a precious thing.
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December 11th, 2015 at 10:36 am
Yes it is! Thank you for commenting. 🙂
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December 12th, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Yes, indeed I would! Lovely story 🙂
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December 12th, 2015 at 6:31 pm
Thank you Sonya! I’m sure their conversation was full of many happy memories! 😊
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