Time for another flash fiction effort with the Friday fictioneers, hosted by the lovely Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Here is the picture prompt:
PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria
They stop on the bridge looking down over the harbour. She grips the railings like she might jump. Next to her, he touches a finger to his lips. ‘Salt,’ he says.
‘Which boat would you choose, if you could, to go home in?’ Her voice is dreamy.
He’s thinking of moules et frites in the little café not two hundred yards away. ‘Home?’ It’s almost a foreign word.
‘Yes. Not that one with the cracked keel; it wouldn’t even make it across the Mediterranean. But, oh, look!’ She’s jumping up and down.
He follows her finger.
‘The dhow,’ she says. ‘Of course! What better boat to sail back to Africa!’
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Dear Louise,
You taught me a new word today. I wasn’t familiar with dhow. At first I thought it was a typo but something told me I should look it up. 😉 Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. I don’t think it’s really a dhow in the picture but it reminded me of one – and of long ago times watching them ply the coast off Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam and Pemba…..
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Not sure I would want to risk a show on such a long journey, but it’s a romantic way to go! Nicely done.
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Me either, but it would be romantic, yes – at least until the storms hit.
Mind you, dhows were used (still are? Albeit maybe motorised) between Asia & Africa, across the Persian Gulf – and that can’t have been at all fun.
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Like Rochelle, I had to look up dhow – how cool to add to my vocabulary!
I really enjoyed this, Louise!
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Ah, thanks Dale. Really pleased you liked it.
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That boat did remind me of a dhow too. I wonder if they’d be disappointed or happy if they actually went home.
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I’m not sure. I tend to think that trying to go back is often a mistake….
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Nice, I feel her longing and am saddened by his indifference.
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Me too! Although maybe he’s just really hungry!
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A perfect pair, these two. Yin and Yang 🙂
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Nicely done. You get the sense that she would like to return but he’s resigned to staying and has no thoughts about their former home. The moules et frites line illustrates this brilliantly.
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