Written for Carrot Ranch 99 words, no more, no less Flash Fiction 4-25-22
“We’re burning daylight here.”
Huh? It was HER 55th birthday, Vanessa wanted to luxuriate, to enjoy a mimosa, another of his delicious peppermint oil backrubs, the brush of sea-green silk sheets. She yawned and stretched.
Jimmy tugged her extended arm.
“Don’t forget your camera.”
An hour later, they stepped out of the hotel’s taxi service and walked up the ramp into the largest hot air balloon Vanessa had ever seen. Up and away they floated silently above the roar of cheetah and lion cubs playing in the jungle.
“Happy birthday, darling,” Jimmy said as they clicked their orange mimosas.
Inspired by Robbie Cheadle’s adventure post.
Upcoming on Always Write
- Story Chat Summary “The Power of Verticality” by Anne Goodwin TOMORROW!
- May Story Chat by Charli Mills of Carrot Ranch on May 10th
- Random stuff – maybe play in an occasional challenge, and blog reading for the rest of the two weeks. WQW and PPAC are on vacay for two weeks.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
23 responses to “Flash Fiction: Up, Up and Away”
I could enjoy the birthday surprise along with the birthday girl. Well done.
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I could too! I stole the idea from Robbie Cheadle’s vacation plans. It practically wrote itself.
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[…] Up and Away by Marsha Ingrao […]
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A great story, Marsha! How fun would this be to do?
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Thanks, my friend. I’d love to do it!
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I loved that Marsha! I think I’m too afraid of heights to go in a hot air balloon. I totally didn’t check the WQW schedule and missed that there was a two week break for you…lol. Working on mine now, and I’ll link it later somewhere anyways if you want to check it out. Have a nice two weeks off.
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Thanks Kirstin. I should have asked you to guest host it!!
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Ha! Well I could always try….I’ve never done anything like it so I wouldn’t quite know how., but I can usually figure things out…
Here’s the post I did.
https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-ts-another-week-of-writers-quotes_29.html
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A lovely treat 😊 💜
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Nice one Marsha!
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Thanks!🌸🌸
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I know it was on someone’s bucket list, but I’m afraid of height! Great story, Marsha. 🙂
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Thanks, Miriam
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such a fun write and 55th Marsha! I’ll take a do over.. lol 😂
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Me too!!! Dream on, Marsha.
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Love it. How romantic. What fun!
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I thought it sounded like Robbie’s adventure. A found story.
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🙂
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Ah! A lovely feel-good vignette.
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Thanks, Margaret.
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Great way to celebrate 55th birthday
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No kidding, wouldn’t that be great?
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It would be.
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