ABANDONED (99 words)
By Neel Anil Panicker
Long after the last of the trucks laden with earth’s richly loot had left, their monstrous wheels kicking up toxic spirals of dust and smoke, its fumes angrily billowing into an ever blackening atmosphere, Robert stood, his legs as if transfixed to the brackish grounds that hollowed out in front of him.
It was time for the chief works supervisor of Trump Constructions Inc. to move on__to another project, another site, another excavation, another emptying out of the earth’s bowels.
His reward: a further scraping out of his soul.
One day, he resolved, he would fill the void.
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January 19: Flash Fiction Challenge
Written for https://carrotranch.com/2017/01/20/january-19-flash-fiction-challenge/
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The repetitive pattern in this sentence works so well to express the wearing down of the soul: “to another site, another site, another excavation, another emptying out of the earth’s bowels.” I long for this character, for the world, to have a flicker of hope for filling up one day.
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I thought to write something that would lay bare the sense if acute hollowness that all of us feel.
AM glad you could connect with my writing and do hope of better times.
THANKS Charli
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I think writing in hard times has a way of creating new paths and offering hope, even if it is to simple acknowledge that the struggle is real.
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