• Home
  • About
    • Privacy Policy
  • Reflections
  • Poem
  • Fiction
  • Prompts And Challenges

Void Thoughts

Void Thoughts

Tag Archives: #FictionMonday

The Broken Kaleidoscope

08 Monday Aug 2022

Posted by Vinitha in musings

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, life lessons, musings, Prompt, self awareness, self worth, sparkle

The broken kaleidoscope wasn’t reflecting darkness. Neither did it trap black spots.

The broken kaleidoscope reflected more colors with a vengeance.

Pieces of blue, pink, orange, green, yellow, and a mix of more colors. It sparkled brilliantly as the more broken pieces accumulated. 

Broken doesn’t have to mean losing the ability to shine. Often, being broken lets you show up without your shackles. Perhaps, when you thought you were broken, in fact, you broke off the chain that held you back letting you break free. 

Either way, it’s time to shine brightly without fear like the kaleidoscope. 

© Vinitha Dileep


This piece is written in response to the one hundred and ninth edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘SPARKLE’ hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell.

Fiction Monday

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Unbelievable Story #FictionMonday

27 Monday Jun 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, flash fiction, Prompt

I have recounted this story many times before. Each time I add bits and pieces to the story to tweak it and spice it up, making it sound unbelievable, yet captivating. Without fail, my audience devoured the unbelievable story marveling at my storytelling abilities. 

But, I never dared to tell a soul the truth. How will tell anyone that it wasn’t a story? Will anyone believe me that in fact, it was not a story, but an incident that I experienced in reality?

Being a follower of my heart, I hardly listened to my parents or anyone else. So during that camping trip in the fall, when I wandered off from where we camped, I did that knowing that I was expected to do so. The path I followed took me to an unexpected turn of events. 

Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi on Pexels.com

Was it smoke or fog, I didn’t care. I was swallowed by the haze and could hardly see what lay ahead. The 14-year-old I was almost certain that this was a mistake. Maybe I shouldn’t have explored the uncharted territory all by myself. But it was too late to have a change of heart. I knew my eyes were welling up, but strangely tears didn’t touch my cheeks. To be honest, I had a feeling I was not visible in that weird place. I couldn’t touch my hands or body. I couldn’t see my own hands or legs. Even if my family came looking for me, how would have they spotted me if I was invisible? My heart let out a gasp and I screamed my lungs out. Did my terrifying voice cut through that thick haze of fog? I was not sure. 

Then, it appeared – a tiny flicker of light moved toward me as if it was held by someone. But there was no one carrying the lantern. I could see the lantern hanging in front of me nothing holding it or even touching it, but staying there supported by nothing but the haze. It moved slightly to my right and I took it as an indication to follow the lamp. The lantern moved again to my right and I followed the light, hoping that I would get out of that scary place. 

After walking for what seemed like hours, I saw familiar trees standing tall and leaves on the ground. At a distance, I could hear my elder brother calling out my name. I called back with great joy, tears rolling down my cheeks. I ran toward Steve calling out his name. Then I stopped to say thanks to the person carrying the lantern. But to my disappointment there was no person or lamp. 

Was it magic? Was it something evil? Who will believe my story? Unbelievable, isn’t it? 

© Vinitha Dileep


Photo by Vlad Bagacian on Pexels.com

This “fictional” piece is written in response to the one hundred and third edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘MAGIC’ and the above picture prompt hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell.

Fiction Monday

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Friend #FictionMonday

18 Saturday Jun 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, dark, fiction, flash fiction, Prompt

Photo by suntorn somtong on Pexels.com

“Sana, are you listening? ” Riya’s voice nudged her. Although her mind has left the park and the bench they occupied a while ago, she nodded and added hurriedly before Riya could point out Sana’s absent-mindedness “let’s walk a bit. I am feeling sleepy sitting here enjoying this beautiful breeze. ” 

Sana didn’t want to talk about what had been ravaging her mind. Riya is a sweet, caring, and honest friend. She will come up with a hundred solutions in ten minutes if Sana reveals what’s in her mind. But Sana was not ready to try out Riya’s solutions. She wanted to deal with her problem in her own way. 

As the friends walked around the park, Sana noticed a lone figure sitting still on a swing nearby. She walked next to the swing without acknowledging Riya’s chatter. 

“Hey! Sanaa! Where are you going now? ” Riya looked slightly annoyed by her friend’s distracted behavior. 

Seeing Sana pick up the cute teddy bear sitting all alone on the swing, Riya hollered, “one of the kids must have left her toy here by mistake. “

The teddy bear in her hand seemed to be happy when she picked it up. Sana, too, felt a jolt of happiness, holding the little brown bear in her hand. She hadn’t had one in a long time. She felt this teddy was waiting for her there. The stuffed toy would make a great companion. Someone to share her concerns with, without being flooded with a thousand questions and solutions. Sana was sure this teddy bear wouldn’t judge her a bit. 

She walked back to Riya holding her new friend with a smile lighting up her face. 

© Vinitha Dileep


This “fictional” piece is written in response to the one hundred and second edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘DARK’ and the above picture prompt hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell.

Fiction Monday

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Time Doesn’t Stop #FictionMonday #Poem

22 Friday Apr 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Poem

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, life, life lessons, poem, poetry, Prompt, time

Photo by Yahya Hasan on Pexels.com

Time doesn’t stop, 
for anyone,
or anything!

then, what’s the point in putting your dreams on hold? 

because, time will run out on you eventually.
if you don’t live for yourself today,
are you sure that you can, tomorrow?

is there any guarantee there will even be a tomorrow laid out for you to live?

don’t let the dreams simmer inside you
let it boil and bubble up
let it bring you elation

you cannot pause the time, not even for a second

you can but try to freeze the time
by living this moment on your terms
time doesn’t stop for anyone or anything

but, I promise, if you live today to make your dreams come true

you will have cherished moments swirling inside you for years to come
all you need is to stop waiting and
start living your life on your terms

because,

time doesn’t stop, 
for anyone,
or anything!

© Vinitha Dileep


This poetry piece is written in response to the ninety-fourth edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘SIMMER’ hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Mrs. Moorthy #FictionMonday

20 Sunday Mar 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, flash fiction, life

Mrs. Moorthy was the first friend Riya made in this place. That was almost nine years ago. Today, the park looked empty without her, thought Riya wistfully. 

Riya was unsure of the move to this new city. But when a good opportunity knocked on her door, moving away from her familiar neighborhood and building a new life in an unfamiliar big city was the option. After a nervous first week at the office, Riya came down to take a stroll in the nearby park where she lived. 

That’s when she met Mrs. Moorthy for the very first time. An elderly woman in her 70s living with her husband in the same community as hers. Mrs. Moorthy immediately recognized the homesickness on Riya’s face and talked to her like a long-lost friend. 

Riya was grateful for Mrs. Moorthy. She would’ve never felt comfortable talking to an elderly person like her as she would to a friend. 

From that onwards, every weekend they met at the park sharing stories from Riya’s office and Mrs. Moorthy’s life. 

For Riya, Mrs. Moorthy was a reliable friend. Her advice was always spot on. She confided everything in Mrs. Moorthy. How much Riya cherished this friendship she knew from day one. But today she realized how much she had missed Mrs. Moorthy’s companionship. 

It’s been only a week since Mrs. Moorthy departed this world along with Riya and the park they met regularly. 

Mrs. Moorthy’s pearls of wisdom on flavors of life stayed with Riya, but her absence tormented her. Maybe, those pearls of wisdom would guide her to navigate the grief of Mrs. Moorthy’s departure and find another flavor of life. 

Photo by Bogdan Glisik on Pexels.com

© Vinitha Dileep


This five-sentence fiction piece is written in response to the eighty-ninth edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘FLAVOR’ and the above picture prompt hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Love #FictionMonday

21 Monday Feb 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, Five Sentence Fiction, flash fiction, Prompt

The sun painted his courtyard in its golden rays.

He felt that he was the luckiest man alive as his newborn baby snuggled in his arms. Nothing else mattered at that moment. It was as if the sun was shining only for them.

The new day of his life radiated love like he never experienced before.

Photo by Josh Willink on Pexels.com

© Vinitha Dileep


This five-sentence fiction piece is written in response to the eighty-fifth edition of Fiction Monday for the word prompt ‘LOVE’ and the above picture prompt hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Point of View #FictionMonday

24 Monday Jan 2022

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, flash fiction, Prompt

Photo by Samuel Theo Manat Silitonga on Pexels.com

That dream again. Like I am running away from something bright. Something spectacular.

But why? Shouldn’t I be running toward it? Isn’t that what I wanted all this time?

Maybe, I need to change my dream. Or how I am interpreting it. I am running toward that something spectacular, not away from it.

She repeated again, I am running toward something spectacular.

© Vinitha Dileep


This piece is written in response to the eighty-first edition of Fiction Monday for the above picture prompt hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Xmas Tree #ThursdayTreeLove

25 Saturday Dec 2021

Posted by Vinitha in Blogging

≈ 5 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, photo, Prompt, ThursdayTreeLove

Our Xmas Tree

before the presents gathered around the tree…


Joining Parul’s Thursday Tree Love  and Fiction Monday.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Beauty #FictionMonday

19 Friday Nov 2021

Posted by Vinitha in Poem

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, musings, poem, Prompt

The petals of dandelions appear delicate yet they are so fearless to blatantly show their beauty. It’s not fragile, or vulnerable in a negative sense. 

Getting to show off their uniqueness – the fragility, the vulnerability, the ability to free itself from the flower and wander off slowly, elegantly and settle somewhere unfamiliar – isn’t that stunningly brave? Isn’t that simply incredible?

To be not afraid of your own vulnerability, instead flaunt it and mesmerize everyone in the vicinity by simply being you? 

Isn’t that what beauty is all about? 

© Vinitha Dileep


This piece is written in response to the seventy-second edition of Fiction Monday for the below picture prompt and the word prompt ‘BEAUTY’ hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
#FictionMonday

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Time? #FictionMonday

23 Saturday Oct 2021

Posted by Vinitha in Fiction

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

#FictionMonday, fiction, flash fiction, Photo Prompt, Prompt

#FictionMonday

It’s not time yet. That’s what he kept telling himself. He had convinced himself that in order to pursue his dreams he needed to be free of all the commitments in life. Work, family, kids’ education – so many things needed his full focus.

Pursuing his dream of writing a novel would require him to take a break from his demanding work which in turn would affect their financial situation. So, not now. And he wasn’t even sure how successful, he would be as a writer. It’s not like he was trained to be a writer. Writing was his passion. That’s all. So not now.

But it would be a satisfying experience when he finally took the step – that much he was sure of.

That’s what he thought until yesterday.

Today he got the scan results and received the grave news. He is sick. It’s time to take a break from his demanding job and check in at the hospital the soonest.

The unwritten novel haunted his dreams.


This fictional piece is written in response to the sixty-eighth edition of Fiction Monday for the above picture prompt and the word prompt ‘DREAM’ hosted at Reflections by yours truly. Do join in if you have a tale to tell. 

#FictionMonday

*Photo by Jonas Schallenberg on Pexels.com

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...
← Older posts

Categories

Follow Void Thoughts on WordPress.com

Void Thoughts on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7ZaL2V4No&ab_channel=VoidThoughts

Blog Stats

  • 22,768 hits

Archives

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,327 other followers

Please Don’t Copy

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Void Thoughts on FaceBook

Void Thoughts on FaceBook

Cannot load blog information at this time.

Tags

#FictionMonday #MondayMusings #SnapYourWeek #WordsMatter #writebravely #WTFOW6 6WSP 2015 atoz2015 atozchallenge Autumn Barathon Barathon2018 beach Blogadda Blogging challenge clock creative writing creativity Diwali fall fiction Five Sentence Fiction flash fiction flower friday fictioneers from15to50 Haiku happiness life life lessons Lights lonely love lullaby memories microfiction mind moon musings NaBloPoMo NaBloPoMo15 NaNoWriMo nature night NoMo photo Photo Prompt picture picture hunt poem poetry Prompt Quotes rain she Six Word Story sky Social three word wednesday ThursdayTreeLove time tree Ultimate Blog Challenge UltraBlog Challenge Verses woman Wordless Wednesday words WOW Write Tribe Write Tribe Festival of Words Writing you

15 to 50 Fiction Challenge 55 words Fiction atoz2015 atozchallenge Blogging creative writing Dreams I dare to see! Fiction Five Sentence Fiction Friday Fictioneers From 15 to 50 Haiku malayalam NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt Picture hunt Poem Prompt Short Story Six Word Story Sponsored Post The Void Thoughts Three Word Wednesday Ultimate Blog Challenge Ultra Blog Challenge Uncategorized Void or not its my Thought! Wordless Wednesday WOW Write Tribe
August 2022
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Jun    
Locations of visitors to this page

Please Don’t copy

Unauthorized use of this material without express permission from this blog’s author/owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to the blog with specific links to the original content here. (function () { document.write("");} () )
MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected
counter

Please Don’t Copy

Protected by Copyscape Web Copyright Protection

live

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Void Thoughts
    • Join 1,327 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Void Thoughts
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: