Hello. It’s 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.

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Sirens

“I don’t have my swimsuit.”

“Neither do we.”

I sensed a trap but realised it was the truth. The water lapped at their bare skin, whilst cunningly distorting the view of all that I so desperately wanted to see.

I swayed slightly, thoughts muddled; drowning in the too-hot, too-close, and too-loud environment that singularly defines an indoor swimming pool.

“Are you coming in?”

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Later, I tried to reason that fleeing had been heroic: I’d resisted the Sirens.

In a parallel universe, another version of me had dived right in, probably to their doom. Those bastards have all the fun.