Conflict by fiveplustwo

Conflict

The newspapers here don't make for pleasant reading. Corruption and misappropriation are commonplace. Violence breeds violence in continual stories of gang rape, sorcery and burning people alive. Photographs of dismemberment and of people pointing to bits and pieces adorn our front pages.

Yesterday I visited my good friend, she had told others who had not seen me for some time that I was coming over and a handful of us sat on the porch and told stories. When I left one of my good friends the last time around, she told me that she was with child and was marrying her new boyfriend. Yesterday she introduced her beautiful little girl and her two beautiful sons. I had not realised I had been away for so long. When I departed those years ago, she was a young woman looking for something in her life, and I return to find a young mother still searching.

She made me popcorn which was all that she had. But she ate none of the corn because she had the nut.

We gently shook hands and I said farewell to her beautiful kids.
not drowning, waving.
August 25th, 2013  
This does look like @bobfoto Jason, here! Interesting focus on the one side of the face! The story sounds like one Jason would tell too!
August 25th, 2013  
@maggiemae - you might be onto something there Maggiemae?
August 25th, 2013  
Coolio. I wanna see the other one now!
August 25th, 2013  
Sad yet sweet story. Love that you got to hang out with old friends and tell stories. Cool selfie. Not creepy for a nice change.
August 25th, 2013  
cool
August 25th, 2013  
Wonderful image and, like Amanda L said, a sad, but sweet story.
August 25th, 2013  
agree with @tabbycat i wanna see the other version .... =) fav this....
August 25th, 2013  
@tabbycat @gavincci - I hear Michaelmalangalo painted a dozen Moaning Lisas before he stopped with the one we now see at the Louvre. There's a good reason the rest remain hidden.

@amandal - I do creepy?

@twr - Cheers.

@taffy - Its my conflict.
August 25th, 2013  
i really like this abstract selfie!

Your stories continue to haunt my thoughts.
August 25th, 2013  
This is so COOL! So well done! I´m in awe! :)
August 25th, 2013  
You do creepy brilliantly. Not insulting you.
August 25th, 2013  
ah, that brings me back to my comment on your copulating butterflies. this looks like a scene from one of those superman movies.
August 25th, 2013  
Wonderful!
August 25th, 2013  
Great work of art :) it looks a painting to me;D great story to.
August 25th, 2013  
beautiful
August 25th, 2013  
In conflict with your hidden side?
August 25th, 2013  
@grammyn - thank you and I'm sorry :(

@agentzuckerguss - just sit in the ocean, with the sun behind you and point and shoot.

@amandal - wonder if I'll manage creepy or not for this week's theme?

@summerfield - the comment about falling into the marsh?

@tamaralaraphotography - Thank you Tamara. :)

@snowflakes86 - a painting? Cool.

@luvthyclassics - thanks Jesse... not a lot of post-production here... this was all about the sun.

@lynnb - because I am sitting in the ocean, it was more going to be about the solace of the water in a way of hiding from the conflict, but the monster sun flares here changed my mind. An accident.
August 25th, 2013  
@bobfoto Will try that next time i´m in the ocean! :D
August 25th, 2013  
@agentzuckerguss - do you have much water nearby?
August 25th, 2013  
@bobfoto No.. just a river and it´s about getting to cold for a swim... but: I hope to be somewhere near the sea/ocean next year for holidays! :)
August 25th, 2013  
@bobfoto Don't be sorry. It is a good thing to be aware of the world outside of my little sphere for so many different reasons.
August 25th, 2013  
Let's hope so. Show some compassion, would you?!
August 25th, 2013  
@agentzuckerguss - holidays sound good!

@grammyn - just don't really want to haunt anyone.

@amandal - no ideas yet...
August 25th, 2013  
@bobfoto LOL! You have already forgotten you were recently in my dreams?!
August 25th, 2013  
@bobfoto Yes an abstract painting;)
August 26th, 2013  
@snowflakes86 - very abstract.

@grammyn - that's what I mean... sorry :(
August 26th, 2013  
@bobfoto I'm not sure but I think you don't have any control over MY dreams! ;~}
August 26th, 2013  
@grammyn - If I'm in there. I do.
August 26th, 2013  
August 27th, 2013  
Out side of sorcery, sounds about par for the course. Although celebrities seem to be smashed the FrontPage second pages all the horror stories.
Anywho great photo love how you disappear into the light
August 27th, 2013  
@gsanemone - One thing I am grateful for is the lack of celebrity gossip over here.
August 27th, 2013  
Takes a bit of looking at...I like that, nice colours too xx
August 27th, 2013  
greatness
August 27th, 2013  
@psychographer - Thanks Lisa... I'm glad my eye wasn't in the viewer taking this shot... a real retina burner!

@houdiniem - Thankness :)
August 30th, 2013  
I find this a little bit creepy.
September 5th, 2013  
@kjarn - That's cool... didn't think I could creep you out Kathy A.
October 27th, 2013  
Only a little bit 😉
October 27th, 2013  
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