The magician said, “Ask what you want to see and the mirror shall show!”
“Show me something happy,” the girl demanded.
The mirror went blank and then flashed an image. A little girl was playing in front of a shed.
“Show me something scary,” her partner teased. A father was hitting his teenage son. The man scowled and left with the girl.
The magician gave a knowing smile. He muttered, “Take me to someplace I can never go.” A small boy was throwing pebbles in the river.
This post is written for Friday Fictioneers.
Lovely. And poignant.
Thank you Sandra
enigmatic story.
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Thanks kalpana
Wait. The magician never threw rocks as a kid? Is the man in the second part walking of with the girl from the first? How long has the magician had the mirror? So many questions.
Alice the story talks about how every grown up yearns for childhood in some or the other way. Three people asked three different things but they all were related to their childhood even that if the magician.
I get it now. I thought the first two were kids.
Lovely reflective piece.
Thanks Iain
Pun intended?!
😉
The reality of human nature. Well done.
Indeed Linda
such diverse pictures.. you painted them well Anshu
Thank you Akshata! 🙂
Nice mirror.
Three people all related to childhood. That was a very beautiful take on this piece.
Thank you Sonia!
Simply delightful.
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Thank you!
The mirror reflected the askers’ own happy, scary and nostalgic places. Beautifully written.
Thanks Priya! You guessed it right!
A place where none of us can physically return to – but in our imagination we can go there anytime.
Exactly Jilly! We can visit our childhood anything through our memories, but physically we can never be! 🙂
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Beautiful
Thanks Neethu!
You’ve imagined a very interesting concept, that childhood is the place we long for even when we’re adults and even when the childhood has been less than perfect.
It’s an ambitious concept, and all credit to you for choosing to work with it. I hope you don’t mind me saying, though, that I found it difficult to understand the concept from the story – I needed the comments to help. The main stumbling block for me was the man’s wish. It didn’t seem clear that he’s the teenage boy; he could be the father, hitting the boy.
Anyway, a good story, and I shall look forward to reading more Friday Fictioneers stories from you in future!
Thanks Penny! I realised it from the comments I was getting on the story. I guess 100 word fiction does that to you. But in future, will take care of this. Thanks again for commenting and taking the pains to let me know this! 🙂
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Dear Anshu
Thank you for letting me know about my website not accepting comments. I shall try to sort it!
Penny
Methinks he just knows he can never go back to place in his timeline. A favorite place to visit, for him.
None of the onlookers can go back to their favourite place in the timeline…same applies to us too, sadly!
Lovely piece, Anshu. I love that we all would choose to look back at childhood.
Thanks Dale! Yes, childhood is not only an integral part of our life but also something that we wish to visit at every point – whether happy or sad memories, it always takes us back to it.
Nice story of escape, if only mirrors were so magical.
True that James but childhood and memories are something we can never run away from.
Dear Anshu,
Some of us yearn for childhood and some would prefer to forget. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle. You have got the essence of the story right. Some yearn and some want to forget. Shalom.
A lovely poignant story.
Thank you Lisa. Glad you liked it.
You can never get back you lost time
Very true! You can never get back old times! 🙁
Slightly confusing at first, but a good piece none the less. Looking forward too the next one!