This week’s photo prompt is provided by Jade Wong. Thank you Jade!
We were caving when the flash of green from a different chamber caught my attention. Mesmerised, I wandered through and stood to stare at what looked to be an emerald hanging down.
I turned to the guide who had followed me into the chamber. “Tell me more about this.”
He smiled. “Legend has it that a woman in the castle above returned home to discover her husband cheating. As they both died, at the wife’s hand, one of the wife’s tears dripped through the floor and became what you see before you. This is the tear of the green-eyed monster.”
Written for flash fiction for aspiring writers here
AngieTrafford 
A very good story . Thanks for sharing!
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Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for reading.
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You are welcome!
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Thank you 🙂
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Excellent take, nice image of the green tear representing jealousy- definitely the sort of old legend you would expect a guide to tell you when caving! Well done.
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You were definitely expected guide to tell you a story like that! Thanks for reading.
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Great play on words. I think you meant wandered not wondered through both could work.
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I definitely did mean that, thanks for pointing it out, I will change it!
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Glad to help!
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Interesting twist in your story. I like the line “tear of the green-eyed monster.
Just a quick note …. did you mean to write wandered instead of wondered?
The story is too good to have that confuse the reader.
Isadora 😎
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I will definitely be getting that word sorted out 🙂 it is almost the shape of a to drop so it inspired the story! Thanks for reading.
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Ooouu, love it! The jewel from the tear of jealousy! Great story, Angie!
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I am glad you enjoyed my story of jealousy 🙂 Thanks for reading and hosting.
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My pleasure, Angie!
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And the photo prompt was provided by Jade? Interesting. This is a nice story written from POV of western culture. When the color green associated with jealousy transfers to an Asian setting there are some slightly different interpretations.
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What does that colour mean to you? I am intrigued! Thanks for reading.
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For Chinese and people familiar with Chinese tradition (which means Vietnamese-Chinese, Thai-Chinese, Indonesian-Chinese) one of the first thoughts is cuckoldry. When the US sent Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets) to various countries as advisers, the advisers were pleased to be greeted with smiles, but …
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Thanks for explaining it 🙂
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Loved the image of bitter tears seeping down though rock strata’s. Here in Yorkshire we have some natural areas of Clints and Grykes limestone paving. They look like a giants attempt at a making a mosaic: but now I will be thinking of writing about bitter acid tears.
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That sounds like a really interesting place! I am glad I have managed to inspire you in some way 🙂 Thanks for reading.
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Lovely Angie!
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Cleverly done Angie, I liked where you took this.
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Aha, interesting take on the prompt! And what a fun legend too!
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Good story. The name of the photographer is unnervingly appropos, by the way.
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It certainly is, I will be surprised if I found she added that colour! Thanks for reading.
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Nice take. I love the end line.
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That is what we always called jealousy 🙂 Thanks for reading.
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Yes, I can relate. My piece used jealousy as green too 🙂
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I am sure it is quite a common theme 🙂 Thanks for reading.
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Oooh, nicely done Angie! That last line packed a punch.
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What else would you expect me to do with a picture of what looks like a green tear? I love that picture! Thanks for reading.
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Good point! Glad you loved the photo 🙂
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I think I’ve heard a few legends like this when visiting caves with odd rock formations! Very nicely done, Angie. 🙂
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I love hearing legends like this so it was a delight to make one up 🙂 Thanks for reading.
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Wow, that is jealousness personified
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…A great little micro-legend – nicely done.
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Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading.
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