Thanks for stopping by! Here’s a story snack for you. It’s based on a photo writing prompt for Friday Fictioneers 26 May 2021. If you’d like to write your own story, please come join in the fun. Thanks to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields for hosting and to Bob Rost for the photo.
The Photo
Description, for my blind/visually impaired readers: Well, all I can tell you is there’s greenery on the right, cement on the left, and something that reminds me a bit of a unicorn horn in some sort of track in the middle. I gather from reading others’ stories that there’s a but and a barbed-wire fence. I guess that’s the thing that looks a bit swirly in the middle.
The Inspiration
I couldn’t figure out anything but the greenery in the photo, and this brought to mind a conversation my bestie and I have all the time when she visits me.
The Story: Herd the Trees.
“The trees are too close to the road,” Seana whined. “Someone needs to herd them back.” She navigated around an Ozarks hilly curve.
I laughed. “You’re such a desert rat. You hate all the green, but I love it.”
“I love it over there, in the distance, not hovering over MY road.”
Though we had been besties for decades, we enjoyed wildly different climates. I lived in near-desert areas for twenty years. I got tired of the prickly plants and missed my coniferous trees with their lushness.
“Too bad we don’t like living in each other’s preferred environments,” I mused.
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Ronda Del Boccio
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Nature is great at covering the earth, and I appreciate all she tries to achieve, I enjoyed your offering this week.
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They still can be besties, and maybe visiting each other in their preferred environmen brings extra spice into their lives?
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Dear Ronda,
Love the flow of the dialogue. We’re all different in one way or another and that’s what makes life interesting. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Yup the beasts always get blamed for attacking the humans. Yet the humans are the ones hellbent on annhilating every last tree and creature from the planet. So who’s really the badguy? good story.
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