PHOTO PROMPT © C.E. Ayr
The E48 grid lay on the southern side of East Street. It was unusual in that it harboured a secret.
Below the metal grid lay a strange world teeming with life.
It was largely invisible to the human eye but visible if you looked the right way.
It was a most benevolent world free from conflict and argument and completely devoid of religion. The creatures in this world had conquered compatibility and could never understand the penchant for the above the grids to kill each other in the senseless ways they observed.
They kept the grid firmly locked down.
Written for: https://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/20-november-2015/
Morpethroad 
… and who can blame them? Nice, thought-provoking snapshot.
Thank you so much Keith
You’re most welcome, Sir.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Yes indeed…thanks for stopping by Jenny.
Sounds like a good place to be!
It certainly does.
They are so much smarter than we. Best they keep that grid secure. Nice one!
Thank you so much.
Great social comment, Sir ST2, very appropriate.
And good to see you again.
Thank you so much, I was passing by and saw your photo.
Sounds like an ideal place to live. Great story.
Thank you so much Mike, appreciate you stopping by.
Peace be upon you.
Good piece.
Thank you so much.
I shall find that place and join them asap. Great idea and pertinent to what’s happening in other places.
Yes you’ll find a lot of us there, thanks Patrick
Wouldn’t that be a nice place to be right about now with all of the violence in the world… great story Michael! 😉
Thank you Courtney yes I was hinting at that issue…
Good for them! Very timely piece.
Thank you so much Alicia..
I think we should switch places.. we belong below under that grid I think.. save the planet by switching
Well yes we could Bjorn but we humans have a bad track record when it comes to stuffing things up….
Nice fairytale. If only …..
Tracey
Thanks Tracey, yes indeed if only….
Dear SS2,
It’s good to see you back here. I hear John Lennon singing “Imagine.” Oh for the world under the grid. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you Rochelle, lovely to be able to stop by…
Sometimes “locked down” is for the best.
Thank you J it can be that way….
Hooray for the “under-the-grid” culture.
What’s the password? I’d like in…
Randy
Thank you Randy, I think it’s “help”!
Good idea to keep that grid locked down. Very good take on the prompt! 🙂
Thank you Deborah, hope you are having a good day….
Thanks Michael, I am good. 🙂
I don’t blame them for safeguarding themselves. Our world can be pretty chaotic.
Help! Can I go in now? I wish… great story.
Thanks for your comment, be nice wouldn’t it to go there for a while.
I want to migrate to below-the-grid. Is there a way?
I think we have in our heads to improve things, its convincing others that is the issue. Thanks for calling by.
I too wonder if there’s anyway to get admittance to that world. Great response to the prompt!
Thanks so much Caerlynn, we can but hope.
How wonderful that would be above the grid. 🙂
Thank you so much for stopping by my story….I think so too….
Yep… wise choice to keep that grid locked down tight!
I think so too….thanks for stopping by…
Very creative take.
Room for me too? Below the grid sounds a fantastic place to be in this day and age.
Thank you Irene, I think I’ll have to set up a waiting list to get in…
Ah, if only to be able to live ‘below the grid.’ Great flash fiction.
Thank you so much, be a better place than on top right now…
Were they keeping the lid locked down for their safety or ours? Hmmm… Now I want to know what lurks below in the depths. 🙂
nice story. Now you have me zooming the picture so that I may look into the grate…
such a fine idea. Reminds me a little of “The Dome” concept from Stephen King. 🙂
Thank you Susan, hmm….I hadn’t thought of that story in this connection…
Well done, Michael! who would have thought that Nirvana was underground:)
And they are right to do so, Michael. I wish I could live there with them. Great story!
Thanks Amy hoping you are having a good weekend….
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The down-below people are wise to keep the grid locked. A most imaginative take on the prompt.
Locked in their own safe world. It would be interesting to see how their world handles disagreements.., Nice take on the prompt.
Well Roger when you have mastered the art of compatibility any dispute if there is one can be dealt with ease…..if not there is the option of opening the grid and putting out out into our world…..and who would want that?
I think I might like our world- with all its problems- better than under the grid. ???
Its all in your perspective isn’t it, better the devil you know than the one you don’t…..
Yeap…