Flash Fiction #5 - Transformation

Picture Prompt

300-word Flash Fiction

Post # 5

Week Ending: 07/11/2025

Genre: Drama

Title: Transformation

   Danielle Whitaker’s pickup was loaded with supplies. Chicken wire, stacks of daily newspapers, several pounds of flour, drywall texture supplies, and a basin for water. She arrived at the abandoned little white cottage that she had seen hiking through the forest. It was perfect!

   Danielle unloaded, then piece by piece, she dragged the wire atop the small cottage to create a dome over the roof. Hours spent twisting strips of metal around each other with blistering fingers. 

   She filled her basin with water, then dumped bag after bag of flour in. Making a mess all over her clothes, looking like she'd been tarred and covered with microscopic feathers. At the right consistency, she painstakingly dipped whole sheets of newspaper, pulling them back out, dripping white goo, like the blood of ghosts. 

   Each sheet was being carefully placed onto the wire dome. After hours of tedium, the dome roof displayed the world’s affairs, but not for long. Once it dried, Danielle mixed the drywall mud to its specified consistency and used the texture gun to spray the entire dome with texture to mimic that of the cottage's exterior. Transformation complete. 

   Danielle called her sister. “You can bring them now.”

   An hour later, her sister arrived in the bus, parked around a bend so that the cottage wasn't in view. She gave costumes to her son and his twelve friends. Dwarves, elves, and wizards. But, the guest of honor, her son, Joey, received the only hobbit costume.

   Together, they walked around the bend and saw what looked like a perfect hobbit cottage in the shire. Joey’s eyes filled at first, then began to spill. His dream, at last, to host a Lord of the Rings party as Bilbo Baggins. It was his final wish before the “bad stuff” would take his life.  

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