Friday Fictioneers’ photo prompt © Roger Bultot
He’ll meet her at the exhibition at Noon, he’d promised.
“You’ll see. Twelve on the dot.”
“Like Cinderella?” she had joked.
“Sort of.”
She scanned the crowds, the balconies, the empty domes that rose above like marble skies.
Laughter echoed. People milled around.
She checked her watch again.
It had inched, traitorous, well past twelve o’clock.
Like Cinderella with no fairy godmother, she thought.
Never should have eaten that pumpkin Sam had bought.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
That does not bode well for her. Yep, should have saved the pumpkin.
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Yeah. Never know when one of them pumpkins might turn into a fancy carriage, eh? 😉
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I was thinking midnight might be good. If it can’t take her to the exhibition, it could at least take her away.
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That’s the second story to feature an appointment gone awry.
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I’m gonna have to go look at the others now, to see which one also had the same association! How fun! 🙂
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Gosh … no pumpkin – no ride – and it looks like – no guy ~~~~ : ( FUN !!!
Isadora 😎
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Oh oops! The Cinderella reference Might have been a clue!! Well done!
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Thanks! The poor thing. 😉
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How disappointing. I hope Sam learns what he has missed out on and regrets not showing up!
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I hope he does, too. Or he may end up having to marry Cinderella’s not-kind-at-all stepsister. … 😉
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Ugh… Definitely NOT Prince Charming…
Nothing worse than being stood up… only time it’s acceptable is when you’ve been run over by a car…
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Well, maybe Sam got turned into a mouse. Or something. 😉
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Or something 😉
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She’ll never get her glass slipper back now! Excellent.
Click to read my FriFic tale
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I wonder if her reference to Cinderella had him running scared? He might not have wanted the role of Prince Charming!
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Well, if it scared him, he sure ain’t Prince Charming … 😉
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This is wonderfully creative.
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Thank you so much! 🙂 It was fun to conjure up …
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Na’ama Y’kara
Vivid piece that had me right there in the museum. Nope she should never have eaten the pumpkin. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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🙂 Toda! 🙂 Was fun to write it … 🙂 Na’ama
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Your tale had a mixture of sweet, spice and fun/pun.
I wrote somewhat similar!
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Glad you liked it! 🙂 I’ll check your blog out … 🙂
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Stood up, broken hearted, again. It’s a song, for you younger folks, that was popular when I was a teen. A LOOOOOOOOOOOOng time ago 🙂
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🙂 Been a fairly long time since I was a teenager (and one time as one is just as much teen angst as one needs, in my view… ;)), but yeah, here’s to singing, not matter what! 🙂 Thank you for commenting!
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Oh, for sure. No way I’d want to be a teen again!
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