Photo prompt © Dale Rogerson
“What are these things?” Kyle pointed.
“What things?” Patty barely glanced up from the tablecloth she was wrestling for the birthday party. Forecast said “mild and pleasant” but the breeze apparently hadn’t gotten the memo.
“These,” Kyle insisted.
She sighed. Looked. Frowned. The contraptions hadn’t been there last night. Some modern art nonsense?
“Hold this,” she gave Kyle control of the tablecloth’s edges.
It looked like an assembly of pipes, but the closer she got, the less she wanted to go nearer. She checked her watch. Where was everyone?
“Mama!”
She spun at his shriek. A lumbering pipe-man had Kyle.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
Yeah, really, what are those things back there?
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I do NOT recommend getting any closer in order to find out …
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Believe it or not, they are part of a water park!
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I donno. I am thinking they’re masquerading as water park but are actually kid snatching things…
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Oh you are probably right!
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Yep
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Not pipemen waiting for unwary visitors? How boring 😉
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I don’t trust them … I think they might be PRETENDING to be part of the water park … 😉
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I think you should just stick with Na’ama’s idea 😉
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Yeah! I LOVE it when people like my ideas! 😉
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Ha ha! You are a card, you know that?
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Me??? You talkin’ to me? 😉
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Yeah, I’m talkin’ to you!! 😉
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<– realizing she is a card. Hoping she at least got more depth than a Hallmark card … 😀
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I’m imagining a metal slenderman, very creepy!
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Yeah, creepy!!! Yikes, eh?
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Great use of the pipes at the back of the fence
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It was the first thing that grabbed my attention (along with the glaring light thing that makes it dark and sunny at the same time …) and spooky-vibe ensued … 😉
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Good spot – to this parent I can only see another play park to be dragged round 🙂
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um … oy! 😉
But, yeah … a bit creepy, this spot be for me … 😉
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Pipe-man. Like, an animated being resembling pipes? Wow. Or, less exciting but more likely, the fella delivering pipes.
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The former …
Inspired by the spooky things in the back of the photo that caught my eye (and Kyle’s eye, apparently…) in the first place … Who knows where they’d come from … and if there are more hiding in the shadows … 😉
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Wow, I repeat. 🙂
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I know … 😉
And … thanks!!!
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I make it a point to avoid pipemen
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That is a pretty good point to make. Me think.
Safer that way. No one wants to go down the drain … 😉
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Na’ama Y’karah,
“Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling….” Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. 😉 An eerie story to go with the lighting in the picture. i want to know more about the pipe people. Imaginative.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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LOL for the music score … Oy vey!
Yeah, eerie photo for sure, or at least it came across that way for me, hence the story it evoked …
I would sort of like to know more about the pipe-people, in theory only … 😉
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Ach, but ye’ scared me with that one. Great story! 🙂 ❤
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Oops, I blame the photo! 😉
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It was a good scare. very realistic. 🙂 ❤
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Thank you … and I still blame the photo … I didn’t put them things in that photo, now, did I? 😉
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This is chilling.
Makes me wonder what the motive is.
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I donnow … if it’s aliens, then I REALLY don’t know … and if it isn’t aliens … oh boy …
Those weird things in the background of the photo caught my eye and send my imagination rampant …
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What makes it so great 😀.
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🙂 🙂
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Now you come to mention it they do look a bit creepy especially in that light! I’m beginning to fear for the safety of the young couple in my story now!
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I recommend quick and quiet evacuation of the area — I’m not sure how these pipe-thingies operate but I have me a feeling they are audio-sensitive …
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I wondered what they were too. I’m glad I didn’t go too close in my story!
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Smart … I would not get too close to them, either. In fact, I would get AS FAR AWAY FROM THEM as possible … 😉
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Good and creepy story, Na’ama. I’m wondering how mom is going to get Kyle away from the pipeman. A bribe perhaps? —- Suzanne
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Gotta love ‘a lumbering pipe-man’!
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Love or hate ’em, still they come … 😉
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what a twist. least expected. it was like a punch to the gut.
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I think it was the last thing Kyle’s mama expected, too … 😉
Thank you for reading and commenting!
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Haha! I love this, Na’ama! It’s great to see people’s wild imagination when we know what the picture is, eh?
I think I’ll hold on to Zeke a little tighter the next time we foolishly decide to walk to this park 😉
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Yeah. I think it best you do… You know there are those recent UFO things even the U.S.military didn’t have an explanation for… 😉
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Haha!
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😀
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And I thought they were just happy young people, partying and waiting for The Vision 😉 Good one, Na’ama. Hope she gets away with her child!
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I hope she does, too! A mother lioness might be no match to a pipe-man!
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I read the story and then the comments and now I’m all mixed up about being funny and outraged about pipeman and I don’t know what to say!
Yep, I can see where those things in the background might look like pipes and being scary and maybe about to sing Y.M.C.A. Good story. 🙂
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YMCA!!!!!
This is PERFECT!!!! LOL!
I’m laughing out loud here!
Perhaps that’s the remedy — sing and distract pipe-critters and that is their … um … pipe-achiles heal? 😉
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Ooh very creepy. Nice one Na’ama!
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Thank you … Those pipe things are creepy to me … 😉
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Haha I agree!
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🙂
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Oy! I wondered what those things were, but I’m glad I couldn’t get inside the photo to find out!
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LOL! Yeah, I’d stay far AWAY … 😉
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Chilling stuff!
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I though so, too .. those things in the background!!! 😉
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Yes, those pipemen look very sinister! Well told, Na’ama
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Thanks, Penny.
I no like them, I don’t. 😉
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🙂
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🙂 Thanks! What a novel idea to post this way! 🙂
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