Another fine photo prompt as FF Mistress Rochelle and Darling Dale team up yet again to prompt me into some foolish fiction for the final 2021 Friday fib.
Click on Dale’s photo to flash over to Rochelle’s blog in case you want to learn more about writing to a photographer’s photo. The prompt pic and my yarn follow.
Genre: Biographical Fiction
Title: Dale’s Candid Camera
Word Count: 100
Are you sure we got the right one, Maggie? We’ll never get away with this. We’re gunna get caught. Who cops trees at Christmas time?
It’ll be fine Ralphie boy. Once we get past this hotel, we’ll have a free tree, Eh?
Who’s that?
Who is what?
That lady over there is taking our fucking picture. Quick, hide your faces. Everybody has a freaking camera these days. It’s almost enough to make me stop stealing things.
Do you think we’ll be published? Maybe she wants to make us famous.
Just keep moving and hope… Oh shit Maggie. I think that’s Dale.
Look both ways, everyone is camera ready these days.
Mind the gaps and check the trees for varmints and critters.
Smile, you’re in the blogosphere.
Our Literary Journey 
Good thing they hid their faces behind the tree
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Right, but I think Dale knows them. 🙂
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Funny! Loved it! 🙂 Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year, Bear.
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Dear Bill,
Yep, You gotta watch that Dale. If she sees an interesting one, she snaps it. Watch your back. Oh. And watch your front. 😉 Love this piece. Picture perfect. And may you have peace in the coming year.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Glad you like my story, Rochelle.
Smile, you’re on tem candid cameras. Privacy they said. Right. 🙂
Peace in abundance,
Bill
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Funny. Everybody does have cameras these days.
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Indeed. And they want to use them. 🙂
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I am laughing too hard to write a decent comment!
Wait. Shit. I’m one of those fucking people!
Oh hell. I’d like to say I’ll stop but then it would be me telling a fib…
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To thine own self be true. 🙂 Good that you laughed. I just had to put the photographer in the story, right?
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Hehehe… Yes, I did. And of course, why not? The photographer is often disregarded 😉
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Never. BTW, if you happen to have a good shot of a streetlight at night, let me know. 🙂
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I’ve got lots… 😀
You can do like Rochelle and go snoop in my pics 😉
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Okay. I will, but in a noisy coffee shop right now. 🙂
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Or… I can pick them out and send them to you, too 🙂
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Oh wait… Street light and/or lamppost? I’ve both.
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Lovely. I shall send you a few to choose from. 🙂
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Thank you 🙏 Dale 😃
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You? With the prayer hands? Or is it Namaste? 😉
And you’re welcome!
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I let the iPhone decide. No prayer. Just gratitude. 🙂
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Ahhh… gotcha 🙂
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There is no escape from the surveillance state we find ourselves in. Glad you made your story light-hearted. Best Wishes for 2022!
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Thanks, Lisa. Same wishes for you in 2022. 🙂
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You’re very welcome!
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🙂
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And yet thieves still get away with ruining Christmas for thousands of folk.
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No thief could ever ruin my Christmas. But I know a teeny tiny virus that could. 🙂
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That was fun. It’s not allowed to post ordinary people’s pictures (recognizable) without permission where I live. Which is a good thing.
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Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Of all the people to be spotted by! At least their misdeed has given us something to write about!
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Indeed. And somebody to write about. 🙂 Thanks Keith.
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what lengths do we go to to have a seasonal tree. A few friends though there was no harm in cutting their own tree from a small plantation. They were spotted by a helicopter and subsequently fined. What joys.
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Almost innocent enough. 🙂
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Will Dale dob them in? Who knows!
The life of a thief is a lot more complicated these days for sure!
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A challenge to the gifted, or they go into politics. 🙂
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Great take on. the prompt. That Dale, she just pops up any old where 🙂
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Indeed she does. 🙂
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Teehee! I sniggered throughout, and laughed out loud at your last line. Great story, Bill.
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Thank you, Penny. Glad you enjoyed it.
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That was awesome. Very funny and true. Every single person out there has a camera.
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Thank you.
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Sure is more difficult to do the thieving nowadays. Lovely story and I like the supplementary advice about the varmints. I thought I was the only person left who used that word.
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Thank you. 🙂
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i’m sure they’ll have their 5 minutes of fame and then go to jail for free board and lodging. . 🙂
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And we all know what Dale does with her pics!
Hahah fun story.
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🙂 Indeed. And there have been rumors.
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Funny, love this 💛💛
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Thank you. Glad you liked it.
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