Photograph courtesy of Janet Webb
This week’s photo at Friday Fictioneers comes from Janet Webb. Interesting one this. Apologies to all those I couldn’t get to last week due to internet restrictions. Should be easier this week – heading to Spain today. 🙂 There has to be some sun somewhere and I’m reliably informed that’s where it’s hiding.
“Tarty,” said Josie’s mother, lips tightly folded.
“Beautiful,” breathed her younger sister.
“Magnificent,” said the school heart-throb, his gaze lingering on her gleaming shoulders, the daring cleavage and her slender arms.
It had been an arduous climb for an acrophobic, clinging to the fire escape from the eighth floor to the twelfth. The best night of her life though… at least until midnight.
“Mine,” hissed the girl in the cloakroom, advancing menacingly with her friends.
“Oh s***” thought Josie, “game over.”
The black eye was relatively easy to explain; returning home in her underwear proved a tad more difficult.
castelsarrasin 
That’s a clever story! I liked the last sentence. 🙂
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Thanks Hannah.
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Oops, checkout time at midnight. Love your modern day spin on Cinderella, Sandra.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. 🙂
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Shaking my head at how adroitly you tell your tales and how good they always are. Despite the inclement weather, you’ve moved away from the gloom and doom (more or less) in your stories. May it be so in your travels as well!
janet
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I dared myself to avoid the sinister this week; that was a great photo Janet, thank you.
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knew it was going to be excellent by the title.
Great visuals for the mind to play in – from acrophobia to relegated to scivys
🙂 for your week
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Thanks moondustwriter. 🙂
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You did a great job of hinting at most of the story but making it easy to follow. She sounds like a spunky, irrepressible kind of girl. 🙂
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She’s one of my regular characters David. Thanks for commenting.
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A story in comments, that’s a new style on me, Sandra, but cleverly woven as always!
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Thanks Jennifer, hope all is well with you.
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I really liked all the perspectives on the dress at the start of the story. I’m glad she had some fun for all her trouble!
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She deserved it. Thanks for reading/commenting. 🙂
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Great build-up to the last line, and as always great pacing..
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Thanks pirate! 🙂
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Haha, I hope the venue wasn’t too far away from home!
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It would seem a long way, I guess 😉 Thanks for reading.
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ha, one thing is to loose one’s shoe. but a dress.. a tad mor difficult indeed. Tarty indeed – great story
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Thanks Bjorn. 🙂
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Love it! Great take on this prompt.
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Thank you!
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Lol..returning home in your underwear..priceless.
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🙂 Thank you.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great closer! Hilarious.
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Thanks Kent. I’m having trouble getting through on your link – I’ll keep trying.
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Rochelle told me. I’ll fix it after work about 6 or 7 your time tonight.
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I hope that she had a private carriage to take her home in her undies…or was it a pumpkin? 🙂
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🙂 I certainly hope she didn’t go by public transport.
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What a girl will do to feel like a princess. I bet the memories were worth it though 🙂
Funny how if it’s fiction and audacious enough you just have to cheer the character on.
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Yes, we’ll overlook the little matter of theft… 🙂 Thanks for commenting.
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Ha ha! I should say so. Wonderful story Sandra! 😀
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Thanks Linda 🙂
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So that’s what happens when Cinderella really blows the curfew! Very well done story!
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Thanks Perry.
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really well-told, Sandra. and apart from Spain, the sun is also hiding in Singapore:)
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France was dreadful. It’s been as though there were a lid on the entire country. Couldn’t get over the blue skies when we eventually reached Spain. Hang on in there!
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Disney always suspends reality giving Cindy her rags back. This seems a more real turn!
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Thanks Joe! 🙂
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Great take on the fairy tale!
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Thanks Trudy!
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I would guess an acrophobic would have less trouble losing her dress to toughies in the cloakroom than she would climbing from the eighth to the twelfth floor on an open fire escape. Now there’s a nightmare.
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It’s all relative I suppose. 🙂 Thanks for commenting.
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Given Josie’s mother’s initial reaction, I can well believe explaining her under-clothed return was difficult. 🙂
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Thanks for commenting. 🙂
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Sandra, you’re so clever! What a great spin on the Cinderella story. A modern-day one, for sure.
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Cinderella’s ugly sisters won this one. Very well told. Laughed.
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A great chuckle here! Cinderella’s dark side, perhaps?
Here’s mine: http://unexpectedpaths.com/friday-fictioneers/put-on-your-red-dress/
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Great premise! Glad she at least got an amazing night out of it! Have a great time in España!
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Loved this. A great take on the Cinderella story. Loved the different opinions of the dress, you packed a lot in here.
Take care in the sun 🙂
Dee
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Loved it – fairytales sprung to my mind – your character had depth, interesting idea to add the acrophobia – it makes her fate even worse.
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What a great story, Sandra. Certainly a night to remember and tell her grandchildren about. 🙂
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Fantastic. Very funny. Absolutely loved it. Naughty Josie.
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