Thursday, January 10, 2019

Shell Shocked

PHOTO PROMPT © Priya Bajpal

The tiny seaside hamlet was all agog with rumours of a raid in their community.   Some said it was the environmental protection agency while the others felt that it was the IRS.  The tiny group at the cafe sipping soy lattes said it was time the Marine Molluscs Mafia got it’s just deserts. 

The local Conchologists were divided.  A segment felt that by selling fossils she contributed important information about prehistoric life to the scientific community, while others were against disturbing ecosystems.

Either way it is going to be a long time till she sells seashells by the sea shore.

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It's another week of  Friday Fictioneer.  I am going to do another take on a classic tongue twister this week.  I have done this before and here is my take from the last time The Shell.

Once again wishing everyone a very happy new year and to read the other shells, click here

I'd love to read what you think about this post...

30 comments :

  1. Nice take on the photo prompt!

    Susan A Eames at
    Travel, Fiction and Photos

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  2. An interesting take on the prompt. Thank you...

    gramswisewords.blogspot.com

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  3. A delightfully different take - and your last few words were my first!

    Click to read my FriFic tale!

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    1. Thanks Keith, we were inspired by the same tongue twister.

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  4. An entertaining take on the prompt!

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  5. what an appropriate title for this story. :)

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    1. Thanks Plaridel, that's a cause for shellabarations.

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  6. Ha, I bet you started with the tongue twister and then fashioned your story around it :-)

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    1. Thanks Alistair. I remembered I had done one before so tried a different approach this time.

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  7. Dear Subroto,

    This one was different from the other Shell story. It's all a shell game, isn't it? I enjoy your whimsical stories. Perhaps she'll sell shells to seven sailors. ;)

    Shalom,

    Ro-Shell

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    1. Thanks Ro-Shell. Maybe she'll receive orders over a shell phone.

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  8. Who'd a thunk that selling seashells could become such an issue?

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    1. I know Dale, but those problems seem to be coming out of the shell.

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  9. The raid will cost them their only source of income!

    Piyali (WordPress)

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    1. True Piyali but as someone said "every seashell has a story."

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  10. I am agog too by the story. Nicely done subroto and learnt a new term conchologist.

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    1. Thanks Anshu, there is always a fine shellection of words at Friday Fictioneers.

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  11. Hehe, that was fun. Now, please help me to get that knot out of my tongue. :(

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    1. Oops, that was supposed to be a :)

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    2. Thanks Gabriele. You could go for the longer version.
      She sells seashells by the seashore.
      The shells she sells are surely seashells.
      So if she sells shells on the seashore,
      I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

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