Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/reussstein-castle-russias-stone-2779392/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 27 Week Ending: 12/12/2025 Genre: Fiction Title: The Great Castle Ruin of Schmidt    Devon Smith had always felt a draw to go on a hike to see the Great Castle Ruin of Schmidt. When he laid eyes upon it at the age of five in a magazine, he felt an immediate kinship with it and no idea why.     Now, twenty years later, he'd finally check it off his bu