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The Sun Always Rises
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Once upon a time, there lived a troll. Each day he would shelter from the sun beneath an ancient tree, and each night he would step out and marvel at the lights of the cottages on the horizon. Over the course of many years, the cottages grew into a village, and the village into a town, and the town into a city, so that the forest shrank to nothing more than a single tree, surrounded by buildings on all sides. Eventually, even this last tree was cut down, and here it was the people’s turn to marvel, because among the roots of that ancient tree they found a stone statue that nobody had ever noticed before.
Flash Fiction Month 2015, Day 21, Challenge #9: Write a 116 word story including a polysyndetonic sentence with a minimum of three conjunctions. The story must revolve around two of the following four themes: love, war, wilderness, loss.
I haven't actually read a whole lot of Hemingway so this is pretty much just sticking to the challenge requirements. I didn't try to tackle the optional challenge of writing while drunk because it's two in the afternoon and, not being a 1920s hipster, I've got other stuff to do.
If you've enjoyed this story, you can find the rest of today's submissions here, and all my previous Flash Fiction Month stories collected as OCR is Not the Only Font, Red Herring, and Bionic Punchline.
I haven't actually read a whole lot of Hemingway so this is pretty much just sticking to the challenge requirements. I didn't try to tackle the optional challenge of writing while drunk because it's two in the afternoon and, not being a 1920s hipster, I've got other stuff to do.
If you've enjoyed this story, you can find the rest of today's submissions here, and all my previous Flash Fiction Month stories collected as OCR is Not the Only Font, Red Herring, and Bionic Punchline.
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Bittersweet. Nicely done.