MFTS – Proud to be Different
Here is my story for Barbara Beacham’s Mondays Finish the Story. We get a photo and an opening sentence to write 100-150 words. The supplied sentence is in bold in my story.
To read this week’s other stories, click on the blue froggy.
She lived in a mango tree. She was shunned for it. Others turned their noses up, crossed the street when they saw her coming.
She’d known she was different from an early age. She didn’t feel she belonged. Nothing seemed quite… right.
It hadn’t always been this way, of course. When she was little she’d lived with her parents in an apple tree, just like everyone else. But when she came of age, she’d found herself a nice mango tree to call her own.
During the Great Apple Blight of 1973, people came from all around. They were happy for her mangoes then, oh yes. But once the blight passed they went right back to spurning her.
Every year she participated in the Mango Pride March. Times were changing, every year there were more marching with her. One day apple and mango-dwellers would stand together. But until then, she was proud to be different.
Sounds just as lonely as a partridge in a pear tree
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Yep 😦
Wait a minute, there are pear trees dwellers as well? They must really be out on the fringe 🙂
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Ha! Dare to be different!
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And she’s sticking to her guns!
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What an individualist… ahhhh,,,, but there is always a price.
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There is, but she’s willing to pay it.
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Nut trees are where it’s at, of course. These people are just fruity…
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okay, Squirrel that is funny.
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Funny is my job.
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Ha! She’d have squirrel companions then 🙂
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Ahh DrAliman, your mind is so interesting. You think outside the box, thank you.
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I had a tough time coming up with ideas this time. But I don’t like to write anything too obvious!
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Such a unique take on the prompt. I like the flow of your thoughts. 🙂
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Thanks! I thought I’d do a sort of social commentary 🙂
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Loved your take this week. You managed to get a lot of sense of place with so little, and though we don’t know who “she” is, we feel for her. Well done.
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I’m glad you liked it! I hope she lives long enough to become “accepted”. She’s certainly willing to wait it out.
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Bloody hilarious and soooo metaphorical for us silly humans. ❤
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Loved your take on the prompt especially the Mango Pride March.
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Thanks, I wanted to do a sort of social commentary (though we don’t have “Mango Pride” of course!).
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Apple trees are so common. For my money there’s nothing like a nice mango tree. Much easier to build a house in one than in an apple tree. D-Man, you’ve done it again 🙂
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Mangoes are the way to go! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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Well, Ali, I’m glad she found pride in her tree. If her house looks like the one in the picture, it’s pretty nice. Be sure to tell her just not to go too far out on a limb (Did I hear groaning?) Well done. 😀 — Suzanne
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Yes, you did hear groaning 🙂 She loves living in her tree.
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I had no idea that this one would give you a hard time Ali. You did well my friend. I like the message. Thank you for participating in the Mondays Finish the Story challenge. Be well… ^..^
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My problem is I’m lazy. I like stories to just arrive in my head without me having to put in any effort 🙂 Sometimes I feel the humour, sometimes not 😦
I’m glad you liked it!
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love it ;0)
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🙂
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I love this Ali. 🙂 A great social commentary. I hope she someday gains acceptance and all mango and apple dwellers stand together! Wonderful last line. 😀
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The mango dwellers are slowly gaining acceptance but there’s a way to go yet. I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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