Flight Path
“Tower, requesting assistance on approach”
“Assist request noted, LU01. What’s up? Over.”
“Seems to be a large object in our flight path. Over.”
“You following those headings I gave you? Over.”
“Yessir. You sure you got it right? Over.”
“Lemme check. Yep, they’re right. Over.”
“Tower, assist on approach”
“You, too, MO21? What gives? Over.”
“Blockage ahead. Brick in nature. Over.”
“Let me get this straight. There’s something in the way of both your flight paths? Over.”
“Yessir. Over.”
“Yep. Over.”
“And neither one of you has been drinking? Over”
“Nope. Recommend alternate route, Tower? Over.”
“Follow the light. Should be two golden arched beams to the right. Follow ’em up to landing pad. Over.”
“Roger that. Helluva way to run a space field. LU01 over and out.”
“I cannot wait to get back to the Mothership. MO21 over and out.”
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The photo prompt is courtesy of Madison Woods. Her story can be found here, along with links to all the other Flash Friday Fictioneers.
©EKLeary
erinlearywrites 
Hehe, how cool I like this! Darn buildings popping up all over! http://createrealitylivelife.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/friday-flash-fiction-not-moving-on/
Environmental AND health hazard! Great take on the prompt with realist dialogue.
Mine: http://castelsarrasin.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/checkin-out-the-joint-friday-fictioneers-may-2012/
hahaha…brick in nature 🙂
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McDonalds are certainly coming in for some flack with this one – now they are a flight hazard for aliens too – just brilliant 🙂
Here by mine for any others happening along: http://womanontheedgeofreality.com/2012/05/25/fairys-through-the-window/
To the Mother-Moth-Ship. Funny one.
Here’s mine: http://thebradleychronicles.wordpress.com/
Ahahahaha. This cracked me up. The thing just popped up right in the middle of there course! Pesky McDonalds. Loved it.
My attempt: http://unduecreativity.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/chasing-the-divine/
Love it!
Great and imaginative take. Thanks for coming over. I’m here for others: http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/fridayfictioneers-preying-mantis/
Fantastic dialogue, totally believable and witty. Nicely done!
Hi Erin, If McD’s is the first thing the aliens see, well you know what they say about first impressions. Very creative and fun reading. Thanks for reading and commenting on my story.
excellent! love the idea of aliens discovering our ‘brick in nature’ eating establishments. here is mine http://craftytara.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/hope-2/
Great story. A nice twist on a simple picture.
Cute! I got a nice chuckle out of this one. http://oldentimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/friday-fictioneers-may-25-but-you-sleep-on/
Go to the arches, follow the light. Ray Kroc would be proud 🙂
thanks for the nice comment on mine, Erin.
snort! and so the truth comes out: moths are really little alien spaceships. I always suspected it 😉
Hmm, puts Mothra into a whole new light…
Here’s mine:http://teschoenborn.com/2012/05/25/friday-fictioneer-perspective/
Interesting approach to the photograph. Sci-fi moths.
Here’s mine: http://logo-ligi.com/2012/05/25/mothballs/
LOL Great tale, Erin. I loved the clipped conversation. Really brought me into the story.
Here’s mine:
http://siobhanmuir.blogspot.com/2012/05/moths-date-100words-for.html
Siobhan
Pretty funny, Erin, and nicely done in dialogue. Good one. My moths were air/space ships too.
Perhaps there is a lesson here. Too many McDonald franchises spreading out all over the world. When you see those “Golden Arches”…either duck or blow them to pieces. Roger.
Here’s mine:
http://www.triplemoonstar.blogspot.com
Very funny! Moths are pretty alien creatures when you think about it. Here’s mine: http://stonesoupnovelist.com/2012/05/24/a-scene-from-the-novel-the-alchemists-tower/
Loved it. Very funny too.
For your readers here’s mine if they wish to drop by:
http://tollykitsjourney.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/moths-fridayfictioneers-flashfiction
FANTASTIC! Great way to start the morning. The drinking line was priceless.
I can claim no such brilliance, but here’s my attempt.
http://notforallmarkets.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/beauty-in-truth/
So glad I could start your day off right.
Thanks for reading!
Cute and realistic sounding. I could just as well have been listening in on the radios.
Thanks – it was fun to write. The green moth looks so much like something from a sci fi movie, it just felt like that was the direction to go with it.
Just delightful! Very original. Here’s mine http://jemcogdell.blogspot.com/2012/05/friday-fictioneers-small-victories.html
Dear Erin,
Thanks for the follow. I enjoyed your story, especially the Moth-er ship. Thinking of it is one thing. Placing it in a story as imaginative as your and making us smile is quite another.
Aloha,
Doug
Loved it! My only quibble is that I would have used “can’t” instead of “cannot” in the last line as everything up until then had been pretty informal. Very well done 🙂