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 © Sandra Crook

“Art”

Ms Farrell was rarely impressed with my efforts. Too safe, her red pen would scream.

The school’s art exhibition was my last chance to impress, but she walked past my neat little collection of pine cones, flowers, and leaves with barely a second glance.

Heart drumming harder than Keith Moon, I dipped my brush into the paint can and daubed the word Human in front of the meticulously stencilled Nature Table. A bottle of lighter fluid and the strike of a match completed the tableau.

My Human Nature Table earned me my first ‘A’ grade. It also got me expelled.