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8.08.2009

Frog's Funeral

So I saw this Drabble contest and decided to enter:
http://peterdewolf.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/contest-ish/
What's a drabble? Check it out. The other day a family friend's facebook status said, "Just returned from a frog funeral in the backyard" and with the theme of this drabble contest being love...well, here's what I came up with!

Under the tree a girl cries. Crouched, knees to chest, she stares with her brother at the popsicle stick pyre. Lining the hole with oak leaves and dandelions she whispers, “What’s next?”

Squinting he tries to remember his only other funeral and after an hour long minute pokes her in the ribs, “You’ve gotta say something nice about him now.”

“I’m too sad,” she sniffs. With a sigh he grabs two handfuls of pine needles and solemnly stands up. After slowly sprinkling them over the Kleenex wrapped body he says, “Frog was a very good toad. We loved him. Lots.”

2 comments:

Sara said...

So cute, love this! Good luck!!

Sid said...

LOL! Nice.

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