It’s Friday Fictioneers time! A bit later than scheduled this week due to working overtime. If only I could write for a living! The challenge is to write 100 words based on a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Check out her blog for more information by clicking here. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like or comment.

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Séance

He lit two lanterns. One for each of them.

Into three glasses he poured generous measures of 30-year old Glenfiddich. He set one down in front of each lantern and one in front of himself.

“I miss you both terribly.” He spoke flatly into the empty room.

“You know why I had to do it, right?”

The lanterns guttered but stayed alight.

Very deliberately, he poured the contents of the other glasses into his, raised a toast and swallowed.

He snuffed out the lanterns by hand, ignoring how sharply the flames bit into the pads of his fingers.