Some of Us Have No Stories
Too busy surviving
Today’s random word is unit; the first sentence “There was no ice cream in the freezer”
“There was no ice cream in the freezer,” Mom told Marcus.
Sheila looked over what I wrote and laughed hard and bitter!
“Something funny?” I asked her.
“Have you ever been poor?… What freezer? What ice cream? In our world, we think of what to eat! Ice cream is like… I don’t know! Not on the list!”
“You know what other thing we think of? Not being bullied by an absolute unit who’s hungry and lives next door.”
I stopped writing.
“Would you want to share your story?”
“ Hon… we, the poor, have no story! We’re busy fighting reality!”
The word ‘unit’ here means someone big and very strong ( British slang).
Thank you, Nancy Oglesby, for a great inspiration.
Fiction Shorts Editors, thank you for your time and support.
Accompaniments…
