The title of this photo is “Big Buddha is watching you” and I found it by just random chance wanders through Creative Commons on Flickr…. a little over 100 words in lieu of Friday’s Flash Fiction.
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The boy and his father looked at the big Buddha. When the boy started to speak, his father raised his finger to his lips, “shhh.”
The boy stared into the the Buddha’s half-open eyes and wondered just how much the Buddha could see. He wondered whether the Buddha knew about the cricket he’d stepped on earlier. The creature had made a horrible crunch under the boy’s foot. He had asked his father whether the cricket felt any pain; his father had said only, “Hmm.”
Now he wanted to ask the Buddha and his father was shushing him. The boy wondered if the Buddha also found this unfair.