I wrote this for the May 23rd Flash Fiction Challenge
Birdie stood at the top deck railing smiling and waving; holding her hat in the breeze. Edward stood stoically nearby, as he imagined a new husband should do.
While the crew cast off lines and got underway Birdie turned to Edward, “I’m terrified. What if the weather takes a turn and the ship flounders?”
“Rest assured, darling,” he replied, “We’re aboard the pride of the White Star Line, she’s unsinkable.” They retired to their stateroom, where Birdie remained, panicked, for the duration of the voyage.”
Eight days later the newlyweds disembarked in New York and began their life together.
The prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story without ice. It can be a world without ice or a summer camp that runs out of cubes for lemonade. What does the lack mean to the story? Go where the prompt leads!
Clever.
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May they have lived long and prospered. 😉
I remember reading that a couple of the fated voyage – had tickets, but at the wife’s instance, they didn’t go. I’m going to guess they lived a different life knowing later what happened –
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Ooh! A twist. That would certainly be an effect of a world without ice.
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Took me a minute… how boring and untragic, the Titanic without ice.
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Brilliant! The Titanic would have survived a world without ice.
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