NO MODERN TECHNOLOGY NEEDED - 100 word story

I missed the last couple of weeks due to having a stressful struggle to travel home from Spain back to Ireland when the ferry company cancelled passenger bookings! Anyway, I made it back. I'm self-isolating but glad to be in my own home.

PHOTO PROMPT © Jeff Arnold

NO MODERN TECHNOLOGY NEEDED 

Rebecca flexed her fingers. Who knew that skills she had learned nearly fifty years ago would be useful in 2025?

She remembered bashing out: 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' until she could do it error free.

She left college with Pitman's shorthand and could accurately touch-type at fifty words a minute.

When electric typewriters became the norm, she was gleeful.

Imagine her pleasure when word processing arrived?

Now life had turned a full circle.

The old typewriter had pride of place. Sourcing ribbons and carbon paper proved challenging, but here she was. 
No modern technology needed.

Hope you enjoyed this story and I look forward to your comments. 

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EMPATHY WORKS - 100 word story

When I looked at this week's Friday Fictioneers photo prompt, there seemed to be only one story to tell...

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot

EMPATHY WORKS

My life was compartmentalised into three phases:

Life Before the Virus

Life During the Virus

Life After the Virus.

During phase two, I fled the anarchy and found refuge in a remote village.

The locals showed me how to survive, how to share. Who said Communism was evil?

Food was harvested and left for everyone to help themselves. We looked after each other.

Sometimes it was hard.

In Life After the Virus, I'm still here. The outside world remains a dangerous place. They don't know how to share. They still don't understand that empathy works better than anarchy.

Hope you enjoyed this story and I look forward to your comments. 

If you wish to read more Friday Fictioneers stories, you can find them listed HERE

If you'd like to join in the challenge, you'll find all the information posted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields 

- her blog is listed on 'My Blog List' on the right hand side of this page.

On a final note - I always attempt to visit the blogs of everyone who comments on mine. If I haven't commented on yours it's either because I haven't been redirected to your blog when I've clicked on your name or because you have a wordpress account that requires me to sign into wordpress first. 

Please check and amend your settings. Thanks.