It’s time for Friday Fictioneers, brought to you by our gracious host, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Our photo was provided by Doug MacIlroy. My 100 words comes to you as story. I’ll admit I was stumped by this one. Thanks, Doug, for the difficult challenge.
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Copyright -Douglas M. MacIlroy
He spun the globe multiple times before pinning his pudgy finger, shutting his eyes. Where do we want to go today, he whispered. His wife approached.
“I got it. Our next destination is Antarctica,” he announced. “This has gotta be Carcass Island.” He held his fingertip on the globe, while he typed into his laptop. “Let me just check…”
“Sounds lovely,” she gasped.
“Here,” he thumped the globe into her head, which bounced into her hands.
“You want to see Carcass Island?” She hurled the globe into the concrete and stomped on it, crushing it to flatness. “There. Carcass Island.”
Note: I just happened to stumble across Carcass Island, and I felt inspired. Apparently, it’s part of the Falkland Islands.
Hell hath no fury….!
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Yes! You know, I understand this globe will be a beautiful work of art (in real life), and I feel terrible for crushing it. Well, good thing this is fiction!
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Yikes…! Well..he shouldn’t have let himself get pudgy….and become a carcass…I really can still hear her shout that!
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Yes, he’s clueless! Why not a romantic beach? She really snapped! Thanks, Pirate.
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Carcass Island, your dreams come true.
I had to Google to see where exactly was located.
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Can you believe such a place exists? Leo, I didn’t even have to make it up!
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Carcass Island indeed. Nice one. I’m linked
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Thank you!
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Just checked out the images of Carcass Island … no thanks for me (I said while smashing the globe).
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Oh dear, what have I started, Frank? How about a nice, sandy beach? There, there.
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Well .. let’s just say not my type of vacation paradise.
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Agreed! For one thing, it’s tooo cold. Brrr…..
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Very nicely done…wouldn’t want to go there either.
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Thanks, Boomie! Me neither.
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I think she’s reached her random travel quota for the year (or more.) With Carcass Island in the mix, I was thinking bodies and, well, carcasses might be where the story was headed, not just anger.
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Oohh, not bodies. She put an end to before that would happen. I imagine if she went through with it, well…I wonder if anyone lives there?
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I’d love to see these two bickering ON Carcass Island.
– “Don’t touch that!”
– “Don’t tell me what to do!”
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I can’t imagine anyone is happy on Carcass Island! Or, if anything really lives there. Though apparently seals do. I bet they argue all the time. Thanks!
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Great one, Amy! Short, sweet, to the point. And Carcass Island – what a name! (Where do you live? I live on Carcass Island…lovely.)
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Thanks, Cathy! I know, could imagine living somewhere like Carcass Island? Or, that Carcass Island is an actual place and really exists? I didn’t even have to make that up!
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You surprised me. I was already imagining the end and that wasn’t it. 😉
It is good to be surprised.
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Thank you, Michelle. I really struggled with this prompt. 🙂
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Amy,
Do they have a Buzzard bay? If not they should…I felt the anger in this. Nice work.
Tom
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I don’t know, Tom. I wouldn’t be surprised! Thanks!
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That place sounds scary.
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Doesn’t it? No thanks! I’ll pass on that one!
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Not sure I would want to visit any place with the name carcass in it. Good one! 🙂
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What inspiration, Bumble. That was a real good one.
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You jest? Thanks, Bumba. I did what I could.
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I’d have said hell yes! and started packing.
My wife would have taken some convincing…
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Guapo, you’re the ONLY one who wants to go to Carcass Island! I am so laughing.
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Hahaha – well done! I wouldn’t want to go there! 🙂
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Thanks! I think that’s the general consensus. 🙂
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Hi Amy,
Sounds like she’s about to send his carcass packing. Good job.
shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle. It sure feels that way, doesn’t it? It could very well be the beginning of the end.
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You know, I had to stop everything and go research Carcass Island. Did you know it was named for the HMS Carcass, although how that got its name, I have no idea. Britain obviously had way too many ships and ran out of good names.
BTW, El Guapo isn’t the only one who wants to go there. If you told me we were going tomorrow, I wouldn’t be able to sleep for excitement (although, my wife would say, “Okay, see you when you get back.”). 🙂
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David, I’m thrilled I inspired you to do research! It has made this whole story worth writing. Yay! See, I knew I stumbled across Carcass Island for a reason. I think you and Guapo should meet. You have this common, you’re bound to hit it off! I understand he’s quite the adventure seeker. You and Guapo can go together. I’ll stay behind, too. You can show me all the pictures you’ll take! 🙂
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You can get together with my wife and talk about how crazy men are while you sit inside and drink hot chocolate together, or something. 🙂
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That would be fun! Just let me know when you’re going to Carcass Island! 🙂
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It’s on the list, along with most every other place in the world. There are so many places I’d love to go. My cousin and I want to go to the island of Socotra, which is between Yemen and Somalia. Such a wonderful place for many reasons, but a rather dangerous area of the world, unfortunately.
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Yeah, I don’t think I’d want you to go there. I’m sure it might be wonderful….but, how about Carcass Island instead! 🙂 Traveling to an island would be an adventure, that does sound tempting.
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I wouldn’t have smashed the globe on the floor if he thumped my head with it. I would have thumped his “head” on the floor. His carcass would be part of the island. Loved the story. 😉
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Oohh, Mari! You don’t mess around. That would be far more dramatic…but I may have needed more words 🙂 It’s always interesting how the word limit structures your story, isn’t it? Thank you!
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She’s had it, hasn’t she? Great characters
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I believe she has, H.L. Thanks a lot.
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Carcass island, great idea I will suggest it … 🙂 good idea here.
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Oh, if you need company you can go with Guapo and David! Thank you!
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Hi Amy,
A global story of relationship strife. Very amusing. At last she didn’t turn him into a carcass. With global warming, Antarctica will soon be the new Caribbean! Ron
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Ron, I love your comments! Ha ha. Yeah, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad in Carcass Island after all with global warming. They might have a few days above freezing. Mari suggested I turn him into a carcass. See, my character is sympathetic after all. Thanks!
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Whoa… Remind me not to thump any globes off your head! Pretty funny… I see he’s out in the garage fixing it now.
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Thanks, Ted. I’m not sure it can fixed. Perhaps, he’ll make a new one. Thanks, my head is sensitive.
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damn! stomp! i’m getting the feeling that this has not been an “equal” partnership, and someone has had juuuust about enough. well stomped. i mean well done.
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Well said, Rich. But I’m sure if the option had been a beautiful beach, he may have had a different response. Or, maybe it just doesn’t matter anymore. Could be. Maybe the Carcass place wouldn’t so bad?
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maybe, but the name itself would cause me to hesitate, then hesitate again.
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Well, some people want to go there…it’s true.
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yeah. they do. but their motivations might be questionable. in my limited opinion.
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What do you think their motivations are? I hadn’t even thought that through.
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well, carcass island. why is it named carcass? i’m imagining lots of hunting and carcasses left behind.
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I think it’s names after a British ship. I don’t want to be on that ship. I haven’t really researched it. But, I was informed this was the case. A British ship named Carcass. Does it make you want to do research?
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it would – if it weren’t a lazy sunday night, me with a belly full of blueberry pie that i baked this afternoon.
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Oh yummy! Eat a piece for me, too.
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whipped cream, of course. and coffee.
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More rubbing it in? You like doing that, don’t you? Sounds perfect. I’m going to have some ice cream now with chocolate sauce.
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not an ice cream fan, unless it’s moosetracks. i’m barely hanging on to my 33 waist. in fact, after this week, i’m sure it’s closer to 35 now.
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Moosetracks is a good choice! Why this week?
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this weekend. made a pork roast with baked potatoes yesterday. today, rotisserie chicken with garlic bread and green beans, blueberry pie for dessert. lunch was leftover pork from yesterday. my kid doesn’t eat well at her mother’s house, so i try to go extra when she’s here. one day last week at her mother’s house they had pasta with no sauce on it, no butter, nothing but salt sprinkled on it. that was dinner. some nights dinner is not made at all unless she makes it. she’s 14. some days she stops at my house after school to eat because she knows there might be nothing at her mom’s that night.
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Oh…I’m so sad for her. Noodles with nothing but salt. No wonder you go to so much trouble. I’m sure she. appreciates it, plus you eat better then too. I try to make good meals for my kids. Sometimes, they’re so picky, I end up making the stuff I know they will eat. Chicken, pork chops, homemade pizza. If I make something new, they usually don’t like it!
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her favorite is steaks on the grill.
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That’s one of my favorites, too. My kids love that, too. My oldest loves tri tip.
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Now I definitely have to Google ‘Carcass Island’.
Yet I’m kind of afraid to at the same time.
Still… I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen.
🙂
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I know…that one is hard resist, isn’t it? Please don’t tell me you want to go there 🙂
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Carcass Island just got added to my bucket list courtesy of you and your thumpingly good story. loved it, loved it, loved it.
Aloha,
Doug
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