Good Sunday Morning. I missed last week’s Sunday Photo Fiction challenge due to other priorities but glad to be back this week. This week’s photo is one of my own, taken near the Myriad Botanical Gardens in downtown Oklahoma city.
For those who don’t know, Sunday Photo Fiction is a weekly challenge, hosted by yours truly, to write a 200-word story based on a photo prompt. I am sure there will be many interesting stories this week, so why not wander over there and read for few. Or better yet, write your own story and add to the collection. You can find this week’s challenge HERE
Now for this week’s story.
At the end of the cul-de-sac sat a tiny pink house, sandwiched between houses three-times its size. Millennials Joe and Beth Campbell owned the quaint cottage, boasting to their neighbors they were no longer slaves to their positions.
Until they won the lottery.
No sooner had the for-sale sign been staked when the couple heard a knock at the door. A strange little man with a long white beard and pointed nose looked up at them.
“The name’s Rump,” he said, “I can pay your asking price.”
The Campbells each wondered what their neighbors would think.
“I will pay more,” he offered.
The heck with the neighbors. The Campbells took the offer.
Before they could sign the papers, they hear another knock. A bent-over old woman clothed in a long black dress stood on their steps. Rump introduced his wife, Hilda.
Joe and Beth disliked their neighbors but selling the house to characters out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales seemed wrong.
“We changed our minds,” they said, slamming the door.
Rump glared at his wife. “Hag, I told you, stay in the car! Now what are we going to do? Houses like this don’t come on the market every day.”
Redbuds and Roserocks 