This week's prompt is the photo shown below, Copyright – Lora Mitchell.
This entry [at exactly 100 words] has to do with Marci, so I suppose the genre is fantasy.
Photo Copyright Lora Mitchell
Kaasu Räjähdys*
He took her to a place he loved.
They sat watching for a while as the bubbles rose like clockwork from the bog beyond the river, expanded dramatically in the open air, floated overhead, then exploded, roaring into mutlicolored flaming spheres.
Marci turned to the shape-shifter and said, "Back in my world we have fireworks and geysers. And swamp gas, I guess, but nothing like this. It’s like an amazing combination of all three."
He nodded. "We call them lohikäärme peräaukko kaasu.*"
"That's so beautiful and exotic sounding," she said, starting to feel romantic. "What does it mean?"
"Dragon farts."
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* For the exotic language, I went to Google translate, and after a little exploration, I chose Finnish, only because it looks and sounds just the way Marci described it. Don't take this literally. The shape shifter is most definitely not a Finn. The title means "Gas Explosion."
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