Submitted for Sunday Photo Fiction
Today I am participating in the Sunday Photo Fiction prompt. You can find out about this weekly blogging challenge as well as read the stories of other participants at the link above. We are provided with the photograph below as a prompt for our stories. Please enjoy the Garden of Stone and Glass.

Credit: Al Forbes
The Garden of Stone and Glass
“Mom. Why did Grandma have such strange things in her garden?”
Meredith dreaded this day. Since her mom’s passing, she had been able to keep Jeremy away from the bizarre things that had been so prevalent during her childhood but now they were forced to move into her childhood home.
“Mom did you hear me?”
“I did sweetheart but I don’t know what you mean.” Better to keep to just what he notices and not volunteer more than necessary.
Pointing at the large piece of slate enclosed in the glass showcase, Jeremy shouted, “That mommy.”
Before Meredith could decide how to respond, Jeremy let go of her hand and ran toward the object of his inquiry. She shouted, “Don’t touch it Jeremy, ” but it was too late.
His little hand penetrated the glass as if it was made of water and in a flash of light he was gone. Meredith fell to her knees and cried out his name but she knew her son had just joined the gardens of stone and glass. Soon a new exhibit would appear somewhere in the garden.
Creepy. A very good imaginative take on the prompt 🙂 well done
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Thank you.
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Angie has already said Creepy which was what I was about to say!
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This is great…like a dark fairy tale and maybe there is a way to bring them all back
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I like. If that was just one of the items and it created displays, I wonder if there was anything worse.
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I am sure there is. Avoiding Grandmom’s garden sounds like good advice.
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What an amazing story. Children’s curiosity can cause so much trouble.
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Thank you. Yes curiosity seems to be a theme in old time stories that lead to trouble.
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Oh god! Scary…!! I was hoping for something magical – positively magical – to happen. Poor boy!
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I suppose it could have gone that way. She feared introducing her son to her mother’s world so I guess there needed to be a reason for that fear. Thank s for reading.
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For the third time – Creepy! I swear, it was the first word that popped into my head.
Great story and chillingly weird – but it’s so well written, it has my curiosity completely peaked!
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Thank you. I just thought it was a weird object to be sitting in the middle of a woods or park.
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I agree – it is an odd thing to come across.
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