Time for another Friday Fictioneers entry! The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.
PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays
Absurd Bird
“It’s not a ‘hissy fit’,” I explode. “I’m intellectual; deep: an artist! I should be Poe: writing hauntingly melancholic poems about ravens.”
He roars with laughter, pointing.
“Look! Your muse!”
There, struts the campest creature I have ever seen. This thing really puts the ‘cock’ in cockatoo.
“That’s…ridiculous.”
“It suits you. You absurd bird.”
I smile, defeated. He kisses me.
I close my eyes, soul expanding, but never feel the touch of his lips.
He evaporates, my imagined love, along with the scene. Leaving me alone.
The mirror reflects a familiar look of disappointment and mild amusement.
“You absurd bird.”
Thomas Charles Henry 
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