Pining for the dying


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Although it knew that its closest friend was old and it was time for him to die, it couldn’t quite control itself.

The pine tree pined for its dried up and dead neighbor.

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This post is written for the Write at the Merge, Week 43 prompt where the post had to be written using “pine” either as a noun or a verb, and just for fun I wrote a post using the word both ways.

1983 – Teething troubles


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Each slice of the pizza took me back by 6 yrs. After five slices I had reached an age where I didn’t have any teeth to bite into the pizza anymore.

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This post has been written for the Trifextra: Week Eighty Six writing prompt where we had to write a 33 word time travel story.

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Darkness


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Darkness, you don’t scare me anymore.

All your attempts at disrupting my mental balance, at my peace, at my equanimity will not work anymore.

After all, I turned 3 years old just yesterday.

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This is my first attempt at a Trifecta Weekend Writing Challenge.

The challenge this weekend was to use an apostrophe – “A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding” and write a 33 word post using it.