Welcome to The Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014! This year, I’m offering up a story – each one 100 words or fewer - for each letter of the alphabet.
Some are heartfelt, poignant, sweet. Others are…not.
I hope you enjoy them.
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FLEETING
FLEETING
Downtown, shopkeepers prop open doors. Tourists buy
souvenirs with beautiful crumpled wads of suntan lotion scented bills.
The bookstore cat weaves between ankles, licks vanilla ice
cream puddles.
Boys in muscle shirts, all sweat and sinew, strut, while
girls in short shorts, showing miles of taut glowing skin, giggle, their lips
shimmering with tangerine gloss.
Parents smile across strollers, hold hands again. These
kings and queens of old cast benevolent but wistful glances at their past
selves sauntering by.
The houses, the cars are rentals, as are the carefree,
relaxed attitudes. It will all be returned by week’s end.
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