Reeling
Bob liked to walk down to the little Marine Memorial park for a smoke. He should give the filthy things up completely, and was down to a couple a day. He actually enjoyed the fresh air.
He liked to read the commemorative plaques. For an inland little Ohio town, with only a pond not much bigger than a bathtub, it had produced a large number a famous Naval Officers.
He glanced out across the water. What??! This wasn’t Loch Ness. That can’t be a monster! Wait! A Russian submarine?? Weren’t the Swedes looking for one?? How did it get here?
Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site, and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Dear Archon,
Now I’d like to know how a Russian submarine made it to a pond in Ohio. Good trick. Perhaps it’s not tobacco in that cigarette. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Maybe they came in the back door – but there’s that, “Don’t ask – Don’t Tell” policy 😯
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Hey Grumpy Old Dude, things have obviously heated up in Ohio since we moved a year or so ago! Never had a Russian sub even in Lake Erie! 🙂
janet
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If I could get, by car, from St. Clairsville, to Newcomerstown, on the highway (?) I used, ANYTHING is possible in Ohio.
In one of his early books, Clive Cussler put a Pacific coast Russian passenger ship in Lake Michigan. If he can do it, I can do it. 😆
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Think you’re Dirk Pitt, do you? 🙂
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Kurt Austin’s starting to grow on me – like fungus. 🙂
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Maybe all those famous naval officers drew their attention. Good story.
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Nah, they’re just hiding out till the Swedes cool down.
Thanx. 😀
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It does feel a bit like a Dirk or Kurt story! Nice one 😀 And I shall be wondering all day just how that sub got there. Perhaps Jack Ryan had a hand in it? 😉
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It might even have been Jack Jr. That young tiger’s teeth are sharp. 👿
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Ah, very topical!
Claire
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With a gratuitous swipe at the nicotine addicts. 😯
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An underground waterway system? Many questions make a good story.
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As long as you don’t expect me to answer them 😆
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Archon, Where is John Paul Jones when you need him? That should make the local and national papers and give a giant boost to tourism. 😀 Humorous and well written. 🙂 — Susan
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Thanx Susan. These old eyes only write what they see, and I saw a chances to link a current event to a Flash Fiction. Even the ‘Commemorative Plaques’ are just pictures of birds, with plastic over them, so that the birds’ ‘comments’ can be wiped off. 😯
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I enjoyed this! And thanks for the like at lorinotes.wordpress.com–
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😀
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Why are so many of the comments crying foul on the concept of a Russian submarine in an American pond? If they can put a sub in the White House…
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It’s like religion. It goes against what they ‘know’, what they want, what they expect. It’s the ‘What’s worse, ignorance or apathy.’ question. – Don’t know. Don’t Care! 😛
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