This piece was written for this week’s Flash Fiction 100 word challenge, with this photo from Douglas M. MacIlroy as a prompt.
Just because I’m like a bird on a wire (well, actually, sometimes I am, except when there isn’t one, and then I’m wireless and then I get drunk and sing in a midnight choir) doesn’t mean I can tap into the phone system. And people don’t seem to realise you can’t make trunk calls from a tree or even from a branch line. I see they’re into aerial photography and cable TV. Must be loaded. So if they’d open the window I could make some calls. (Don’t worry, they would be cheep.) Just trying, in my way, to be free.
Six Crooked Highways 
I love this!
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Very clever, Doug. This gave me a good laugh.
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I think I should make you President of my fan club 🙂
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Thank you, Doug. Keep writing.
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This made me smile. Cracking little piece!
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Many thanks, Matthew. Then my work here is done. 🙂
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Very good, should be some sort of prize for most puns in 100 word story! 🙂
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And good luck to him. Enjoyed that.
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That was clever indeed.
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Many thanks, Dale.
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Tweet, sorry sweet. Well penned put a smile on my face.
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Thanks, Susan. A delightfully sweet virtual tweet. 🙂
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If I have been unkind (with this comment), I hope that you can just let it go by…
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I’d have preferred tea and oranges that didn’t come from China 😉
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A nice plethora of puns, very clever
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Thanks, Michael.
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Smiles all the way, Doug
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Thanks, Lynn. That’s always the intention. 🙂
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I had a good laugh over this one 🙂
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A bird looking for an angle. I like it 🙂
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