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Monday, March 12, 2012

Succinctly yours: serendipity


Rocky cheered the serendipity of finding a container of water for washing his food. Then he realized this gardener hadn't left any food out.

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hosted by Grandma's Goulash,
in which Grandma posts a prompt photo every week and her daughter, Calico, suggests a word of the week before seeing the photo. Writer-bloggers are to write a short story of 140 words based on the prompt, or a short-short microfiction of 140 letters including spaces and punctuation.
Above is my contribution for today. 140 characters, using the week's word:
serendipity.

11 comments:

Elaine said...

That made me smile!

anthonynorth said...

Now that's just bad luck. nice one.

Lisa Ricard Claro said...

A fastidious raccoon! LOL He struck out in the garden, though. Looks plump to me...he must have a stash elsewhere. :)

Fireblossom said...

I like raccoons! I collect stuffed toy ones.

Pat said...

Aww, poor Rocky...his cheer turned quickly to dejection. I'm sure that when the vegetable garden is in he'll be happy again.

Laurie Kolp said...

Cute 'coon... serendipity is hard to use.

Jim said...

Poor Rocky's serendipity turned to zemblanity rather quickly! :)
Nice use of the prompts, Kay, but sort of a sad little micro story.
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SquirrelQueen said...

Aw, poor Rocky. The raccoons who visit our yard never find food either but there is always water.

Madeleine Begun Kane said...

Haha! Good and succinct!

jabblog said...

Aww, poor Rocky;-)

Grandma's Goulash said...

Rocky may clean his food, but I'm betting he doesn't clean up after he eats. A tragic tale for Rocky, but quite serendipitous for that gardener. :D